Buckle up… this is a long ride

[derpyelephant95]

**this is a copy of my Facebook post about the same issue*

Tech Savvy and specifically Microsoft Windows 11 savvy friends… this Apple girl needs help.

So over the weekend my Acer PC died. I was in the middle of a commissioned project and had to go get a new PC Saturday morning.

I got a CyberPower Gaming PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 w/iGPU, Radeon 7600 GPU and 16GB of DDR5 RAM. All well within spec to do what I need to do.

OBS Studio (how I recorded footage for this project) does not work at all. I have updated EVERY driver… C++ code… allocated RAM to my second hard drive where everything is stored. And I’m at my whits end with it… I’ve factory reset several times. It just opens and says (not responding) and I have to restart to be able to even open the app.

It plays games fine, uses Adobe products with no issue it’s just OBS Stuido. Now before you tell me to use StreamLabs OBS… I tried that and it worked up until it didn’t. I was able to get everything setup then it just stopped working… and hasn’t worked well since.

OBS Studio acted like a “phantom program” when installed. The only way to get it totally out of the PC was to factory reset. If you’ve made it this far, you’re the real MVP .

I got the PC at Best Buy and to be honest I’d rather not haul it up there if I can help it.

The ONLY thing I’ve not done is Flash the BIOS I don’t know how to do that… and don’t want to attempt something like that myself.

If ANYONE has any sort of suggestions I’m all ears. Thanks friends and I appreciate you reading this novel.

Much love

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

One thing to consider is what format your are Recording in? AMD is known to have under-invested in H.264 encoding (for MANY years), which is why NVidia (NVENC) is often the go-to for streaming. But if not Streaming, just Recording, then Recording to H.265 may make sense??? depends on what you are using for video editing

Did you get OBS Studio installer from this site?
If you installed StreamLabs OBS, then... that can make a mess of things. Typical recommendation is to until StreamLabs OBS, reboot, then reinstall OBS Studio (possibly/probably a good idea to uninstall OBS Studio first, manually make sure directories all cleaned out, then reinstall OBS Studio... just to be on safe side

Beware junk software (like 3rd party security software) installed by CyberPower... as well as software that set itself up to auto-run at startup (and doesn't need to be)

Allocating RAM to 2nd HDD???? that is WAY uncommon, unless you set up some RAM caching??
Personally, I have a large enough SSD (flash drive) for Operating System, applications, and my initial Recordings. And in my OBS Studio use case, that is only 256GBs, and it is plenty. I then move the Recorded Video files to a HDD (many TBs) for archiving.