I may have solved a huge chunk of problems?
I have a fresh Win7 Ultimate x64 I installed and tweaked hard for this new PC I just got 2 weeks ago and just upgraded to Win10 pro x64 12 hours ago. It was finally a PC not only good enough to run some awesome games I hadn't played, but I wanted to try to stream them as well. Was having problems getting CLR to work at all before, although I think I saw it come up a few times. (It was mainly with the alerts I had the biggest issues). I had bounced between *every stinkin plugin* I could find, desperately trying to get donations or subs or followers etc. to show up in my streams. I had uninstalled and reinstalled x86 and x64 at least 6 times with the different plugins in different combinations, even replacing .net 3 and 4 over and over from the windows addons in control panel/programs, trying over and over to install 4.5.2 (even using the packaged CLR at least 10 times, with varying results of fail or completed with x86 and x64 versions of both) - I've seriously been cussing over and over for HOURS and I'm amazed I have any hair left.
Here is the important parts of my logfile, that I would see over and over as soon as I'd launch either OBS (including the multi-platform one!) and I'd check - I think it would always come up immediately since I had it added in some sources scenes (and I've got a bunch for a few people on one machine).
First this, which I couldn't figure out, since Win10 comes with .net 4.6, I'd installed 4.5 from the repack successfully a few times, and every time I'd get a copy from Microsoft, it would fail and say I had better in my machine.
09:25:51: CLRHost::Initialize() Found version v2.0.50727 .NET runtime
09:25:51: CLRHost::Initialize() Found version v4.0.30319 .NET runtime
09:25:51: CLRHost::Initialize() attempting to use v4.0.30319 .NET runtime
Then it would always mention the "browser.json" file with errors.
09:25:51: CLRHost:: Could not find/load browser settings at location C:\Users\Banarak\AppData\Roaming\OBS\pluginData\browser.json
09:25:51: CLRHost:: Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\Users\Banarak\AppData\Roaming\OBS\pluginData\browser.json'.
Which messed me up a little bit because I never turned on "Show hidden files and folders" after the reinstall, and I got stuck on "where is AppData??!". Regardless, I needed browser.json which comes in either (or both) Visual Studio 2013 (Updates 1-5? All or one of them?) and .net 4.5.2, and should be in 4.6, but what the heck was going on with the installs on Win10???
So after hours and hours of digging and searching the net, I saw complaints that it would glitch out when installing and stay in the task manager (which I caught about 7 instances of it myself at once!) but even killing those processes kept me stuck with Microsofts versions saying I had better. Well, I had downloaded and installed a few KB packs that didn't help but were parts of the picture, I had VS 2013 Ultimate coming in (that I read the .iso copy could fix this issue, and to not use the setup downloader), and I had 3 other different variants of installs trickling in I was praying would somehow overcome this and me at least the missing browser.json file (and whatever else I was missing). JUST now I came across
http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Javascript_Free_CodeDownload/m/MeteorFrontend-master.zip , which had a match. (I was clued in that it could be a part of Javascript, after studying what a .json file was and was wondering if maybe I should install a few different versions of Javascript just to see - I hadn't touched Java on the new PC yet.)
The browser.json file is attached to this if you don't want to bother grabbing the download. Obviously, I unzipped it, popped the file in the pluginData directory and for the first time in the 6 days of working on CLR I got to see it actually work on a preview stream in v0.654b 64-bit. (Through TwitchAlerts test buttons). I'm so happy I could cry. Between Microsoft really botching the rollout of the packs back then with it getting stuck in an active process, to now having .net 4.6 come standard with Win10 but missing the file, it seems a ton of us fell through the cracks with a system setup where we just hit one wall after another - having everything we needed already but ONE 1k FILE.
I really didn't want to get into this sort of overblown explination of my headaches dealing with this, but I've seen it's been a huge issue and most people who haven't had it solved had the same errors I did. I just really hope this will fix everyone elses issues as well. I'm not even sure if I'm going to bother installing all this other crap that I was still waiting on to download, hahaha.
Good luck, and if it helps feel free to stop by my channel and donate... I could really use the money to get my inheritance out of storage before I lose everything I have left of my father. :D (Not kidding)
(Because of forum rules, rename browser.txt to browser.json and drop it in your pluginData directory your getting the error about. Thats all it took for me.)
Edit: Wow, kinda floored just how many logs actually have this issue - I didn't really go through the last 6 pages of posted error logs until now and it should fix all of them but 1 that I saw. (And even then, it looks like a rendering problem using that file on a Vista system... possibly still Java related?). I have read hours of people posting those few error lines like I had though in message bodies, and I knew it was a common bug.
Oh, just in case this also had a part to do with it, I had .net 4.5.1 Developer Pack (KB2861696) installing at the same time I found the browser.json file and got excited - that also completed the install, it's free and I grabbed it from
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40772 . I can't be sure that didn't have a file or two I also needed since they both were immediately before I tried testing it again and it worked.
I'm live at
http://www.twitch.tv/banarak right now, and
https://www.twitchalerts.com/donate/dirtyoldgamingguru is my Donation page. In case you stop by and it seems strange, haha. :)
