Game & Music Audio Cackling when I'm Live Streaming

[Jaijunn]

Hi There!!

I've been recently dealing with on stream cackling and weird sounds during my stream when I'm live or even some of the clips (I should have saved the ones I've deleted). I don't hear the cackling myself but my chat do.
I was told by my chat that theres cackling in my game, people who I'm in discord with, etc.

I'm currently using Win Capture Audio Plugin to seperate my spotify and get it out of Twitch VOD.

48HZ in audio settings for OBS and Headset.
I do stream and use my capture card for my Nintendo Switch when I do play games.
Headset is HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless and have reinstalled my drivers and updated headset firmware but cackling happens sometimes.

I've attached some log files for anyone who is able to configure these issues.

 

[Suslik V]

It seems that you run into issue:

Audio issues when streaming · Issue #256 · bozbez/win-capture-audio

Hello! I am having issues with the audio when streaming on Twitch. It happens from time to time that a certain audio (it can be the game audio, music audio or navigator audio as far as I know) star...

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In case of OBS Application Audio Capture (Beta) this "crackling" issue also known as:

[Application Audio Capture (beta)] Sound becomes noisy after a long time · Issue #8064 · obsproject/obs-studio

Operating System Info Windows 10 Other OS No response OBS Studio Version 29.0.0 OBS Studio Version (Other) No response OBS Studio Log URL https://obsproject.com/logs/oF4ofzG6VIEKsq24 and https://ob...

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It has many threads on the forum, for example:

Audio crackling at ranom interval with "Application Audio Capture"

As the title says, I have random audio issues where the sound crackles kind of like if you put your speaker in front of a big fan. It only happens with App audio capture, no issues with my microphone for example, also it only happens on the stream, I can't hear in in my headphones. I've tried...

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Random audio issues

Cool, glad you found it! I took a quick look, that feature shouldn't be enabled when using OBS anyway. Anti-Lag, Frame Generation, Super Resolution, ect, sounds like trouble....

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and some other threads on this forum, that covers both plugin and built-in implementations of the audio capture of the single process.

If you able to reproduce the issue and still want to help to developers to resolve the issue, please take a look at this post, that describes how to test it in a few steps with a standalone application (based on MS native solution of single process capture):

Audio crackling at ranom interval with "Application Audio Capture"

Just want to add I've been having this same issue for several months now. I believe it started happening after upgrading to an AMD cpu. After about an hour-ish into stream the audio goes crackly with no indication to me or anything. Strangely it's only my game audio. Mic and spotify seem to be...

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[Suslik V]

Also, some of your sources leave "garbage" in the RAM:

17:50:32.469: Number of memory leaks: 12

If memory consumption inadequately grows while you are using OBS - consider to remove problem sources from the scenes and look at the log again (after OBS closed). What it can be? It can be any source (media, device, filter, plugin etc). This also may be caused by some external plugins or scripts (if any was installed). But sometimes it is driver or OBS internal bugs.
Here, good value for "memory leaks" is 0.

 

[Jaijunn]

Also, some of your sources leave "garbage" in the RAM:

17:50:32.469: Number of memory leaks: 12

If memory consumption inadequately grows while you are using OBS - consider to remove problem sources from the scenes and look at the log again (after OBS closed). What it can be? It can be any source (media, device, filter, plugin etc). This also may be caused by some external plugins or scripts (if any was installed). But sometimes it is driver or OBS internal bugs.
Here, good value for "memory leaks" is 0.

I thought I responded to this but thank you so much! would it be worth reinstalling obs and removing all the traces of files ?

 

[Suslik V]

Would be nice to try portable mode of OBS to see if the leaks caused by OBS or drivers itself (without plugins and additional scripts, if any).
Or at least, try to run OBS safe mode (cmdline key: --safe-mode) few times.

OBS portable mode (read after the "If it was not clear" words):

Bug Report - Crash with «Could not find locale.ini path» when opening app Settings

Probably, a duplicated issue. If so, please point to a thread with solution. When I open settings while a brand new scene is showing, settings window opens fine and look like working fine, but if I add at least one source, settings stop opening and app starts crashing each time a Settings...

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