
Alternatively by having your PlayStation 5 on DHCP where it has to renew it’s IP address can cause interrupts and issues, it is better to enter a static IP address on your private network that your PlayStation 5 will always have and not have to do the DHCP calls to refresh/renew it’s IP on periodic basis. My recommendation is to put 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 (Cloudflare for primary and secondary DNS as they are shown to be the fastest responding), but using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 which are Google DNS servers and they should do a fine job too. To solve this you edit your network settings and can define specific DNS servers under network advanced settings. If you are plagued by Broadcast Stopped issues, I found much like the PlayStation 4 there appears to be issues periodically when using your default ISP DNS servers when it comes to name resolution not happening fast enough at times. I have had 2-FA for a long time since it is required to be a Twitch affiliate so just calling this out that this is something I have read and would likely be a cause of a Twitch account sync issue rather than the viewers seeing a PS5 pause screen. Was reading that PlayStation network requires that your Twitch account have 2-FA enabled to be able to stream to Twitch from the PlayStation 5. Reboot your PlayStation 5 and see if the issue is now resolved, 90% of the times when the PlayStation 5 cannot show your game on Twitch and you get mic only with a pause screen this is the culprit. To disable HDCP on your PlayStation 5 go into your Settings – > System -> HDMI and select Disable HDCP so that it is off. The first and most obvious is the HDCP, yes the PlayStation 5 has DHCP and much like the PlayStation 4 you have to disable it or it can cause your streams to be blocked. A few rounds of troubleshooting and I was back up and working in on time so I will take you through the list of things to try in order to fix the PlayStation 5 won’t show game on your Twitch Stream.

So when I first started my test stream from the PlayStation 5 I immediately noticed when trying to Stream Astro’s Playroom that all the viewers see on Twitch was the PlayStation 5 pause screen and can hear my microphone.
