Question / Help Driver Crash while Streaming with OBS (Windows 10 Fall Update)

RomanianReaver

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Good day,


So basically for the past 5 days I've had issues being able to stream on my Twitch channel because my OBS client, I am fairly sure, crashes my AMD Driver while doing so. I can't explain it because while recording games offline it has absolutely no problems but when I go online, with much lower bitrates to boot, within 30-40 min my GPU driver crashes and so does OBS and the game I was playing. I've tried literally everything from reinstalling the drivers to cleaning the registries to clean installing OBS, etc. Nothing has helped.

My system:
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231v3
GPU: AMD Fury Nitro
RAM: 4x4gb DDR3 1866Mhz (downclocked to 1600Mhz) CL9 Crucial Ballistix RAM
OS: Windows 10 Pro Fall update
Driver versions tried to fix the problem: Latest 2 beta drivers and the last stable driver.
Worth mentioning that I run the encoding off the GPU not the CPU (it works quite well for visuals).

Oh and one thing I've always noticed before a imminent crash of the driver/OBS is that the stream becomes stuttery beyond belief (I reckon between 1 and 10 FPS). It can't be the GPU dying because I've checked when this first started via 3 back to back Unigine Valley on ultra 1080p runs to make sure the GPU wasn't the culprit.

Thank you for any suggestions offered because at this point I am literally thinking "Am I fucked until AMD/Microsoft patch their driver/OS ?"
 
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RomanianReaver

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Oh and one other thing I've noticed which may be relevant: Streaming non-visually intensive games does not seem to be a issue... like I've streamed Project Zomboid for around a hour after a crash with no issues.
 
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