Bug Report Cannot initialize desktop audio sound, more info in the log

I downloaded OBS this evening, since I'd like an alternative to Xsplit. I've only used Xsplit a handful of times, but I like to think I'm reasonably competent with this type of software.

I understand the basics of adding a scene, naming it and then adding the desired sources. I run into problems any time I try to preview the stream. Regardless of my selected sources, the "Edit Scene" button is always greyed out. I click "Add Software Capture" and set up the window I want to record. After I've set this up, the scene window stays blank. This happens with every type of source I add to the scene. I click "Preview Stream" or "Start Streaming", I get an error message and the program exits. I've changed every setting available and still I haven't gotten anywhere. Obviously, this makes it unusable. I'd appreciate any help you could give me. Thanks.




This is an example of one of my log files, as they're all identical:

Open Broadcaster Software v0.448a - 32bit (´・ω・｀)
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CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz
CPU Speed: 2261MHz
Physical Memory: 2047MB Total, 1499MB Free
stepping id: 6, model 7, family 6, type 0, extmodel 0, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 2, total cores 2
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Adapter 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Video Adapeter Dedicated Video Memory: 521732096
Video Adapeter Shared System Memory: 1339553792
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1366x768
Output resolution: 680x384
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Loading up D3D10...
Warning -- MMDeviceAudioSource::Initialize(0): Could not initialize audio client, result = 88890017

Error: Cannot initialize desktop audio sound, more info in the log file.

Re: Cannot initialize desktop audio sound, more info in the

Very strange, I'm not entirely sure what would cause this particular error to occur - that specific error code there in the warning states that it has something to do with CPU usage being exceeded for some reason. I'm not entirely sure why that would occur for the audio engine though.

Re: Cannot initialize desktop audio sound, more info in the

According to MSDN that occurs when the audiodg.exe process is overloaded and is taking too long to process existing packets, so to prevent further degradation it doesn't allow new streams. Try disabling any other apps using sound while streaming, and make sure you don't have any audio enhancements enabled in your driver properties as these take extra CPU to render.

Re: Cannot initialize desktop audio sound, more info in the

That's a pity. I wasn't very hopeful, since it turned up so few results when I searched for solutions. Thanks for taking a look anyway. I'll try running OBS on its own to see if that helps.

i had this same error due to having windows media player open be sure to have it not opened then use it after you launched OBS

This thread is from 2012, please don't bump threads unnecessarily.