2 Issues with OBS that I need help fixing.

[Grid21]

Hello! I have to seek some help with 2 issues with OBS Studio that I am pretty confused about.

Issue 1: Video Camera output crashing.
I have 2 main cameras I use for OBS Studio. 1 is the Elgato Camlink 4k, and the other is the C930e. The issue goes like this. I open OBS Studio and will usually do a camera check to make sure I can receiving video for both devices before I go live. Unfortunately what ends up happening, and it changes between either camera, is that OBS doesn't seem to be getting a video feed from either the Camlink, or the C930e, and when I go to open the context menu to do a "deactivate/activate" OBS Will Freeze, white screen the whole interface, not respond, and crash. When I go to reopen OBS again, the same issue will still happen where it still doesn't get a video feed, and I have to close and reopen OBS Studio once more before it finally gets a video feed. This has been an ongoing issue. Sometimes even unplugging and replugging the aforementioned video devices still doesn't fix the issue. I think at one point I did try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers for each device, but still, the issue persists.

Issue 2: Destiny 2 causing GPU Encoder overload, even though I am now running at RTX 3060 12GB. This is a new issue that just started. Basically, as it sounds, at particular places in the Destiny 2 world, OBS Suddenly complains that the NVENC encoder is "overloaded". I have checked both CPU and GPU usage and that report is not correct. The usage is usually about 50% or so and nowhere near being at 100% usage.

What I am fearing here is that my whole OBS Install, Windows 10 install, or something is corrupted somewhere and that I need to take extremes and reinstall everything from scratch which would be awful because I also do video production and Music producing and I don't want to have to reinstall EVERYTHING and reconfigure EVERYTHING again as it was hard enough to get things working nicely as it was. I don't know where to start to fix all of these issues.

Sadly the issue with the camera didn't happen when I did a test stream for this post. But maybe someone can still help me.

I'd also like to mention I've been using Voice Meeter Potato for some audio routing to 2 headsets that I use on my stream. The Hz in Voice-meeter potato is set to 44.1hz while OBS is set to 48Hz. Not sure if that has anything to do with my current standing issues or not.

 

[mediacoordinator]

Don't know if this will help or if you've tried it already. But try using the default button in the properties menu for each device causing issues. I had an issue exactly like your first issue but with my asio device. I hit the default button at the bottom of the properties menu and that fixed all my issues.

For your encoding lag problem, there's been a lot of issues with OBS performance. I've found that running OBS as administrator helps resolve some encoding lag issues because OBS can properly take advantage of the Nvenc encoding engine. However if you are using a network attached drive then running OBS as administrator will cut off your access from it. So be careful if you use certain sources in OBS from a network drive.

About your Voice Meeter, you should try and have all of your audio set to either 44.1 or 48Khz. Having mismatching settings can sometimes cause unwanted audio artifacts.