How do I disable the safe mode popup that appears every time I start OBS?

[AAAtlas]

"OBS did not shut down properly during your last session"
I use OBS for my replay, so I'll start OBS and start recording when I turn on the computer, and only turn it off when I turn off my computer. But in OBS 3.0 onwards, OBS introduced safe mode, so I get a popup alert every time I turn on my computer, which annoys me a lot, how do I get rid of this popup? Is there any switch to turn this pop up off?

 

[AaronD]

How do you "turn off" OBS? Do you use the close button? Or do you allow the operating system to kill it?

There are various "signals" that can be sent to a running app, that have different meanings. One is supposed to tell it to shut down gracefully, as if the user closed it, but OBS doesn't actually handle it correctly. It's either an ungraceful stop, or an actually-correct shutdown without saying so, so that it shows the popup next time. I'm not sure which it is.

Anyway, the OS shutdown sequence involves sending the graceful-close signal to every app, waiting a while, and then asking you to force-close any that remain. If that's how you're "turning off" OBS, then you'll get the popup because it doesn't handle the graceful-close signal correctly.

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There's a command-line flag that you can use when you start OBS, to disable that popup, but I recently found the popup to be very useful! I got mine into a configuration that consistently crashed it on startup so I couldn't do anything at all, and choosing Safe Mode in the popup allowed me to fix it.

Don't disable that unless there really is no other option...like for another of my rigs that is complex enough to be set up and torn down by a script and not manually. I can't avoid shutting it down by a signal in that case, and so that rig specifically, has the command-line flag to disable the popup.

 

[AAAtlas]

I just let the operating system kill it. And I found the command-line flag to disable that popup. I'm a nonprofessional user so i might just use it. Thanks anyway.

How do you "turn off" OBS? Do you use the close button? Or do you allow the operating system to kill it?

There are various "signals" that can be sent to a running app, that have different meanings. One is supposed to tell it to shut down gracefully, as if the user closed it, but OBS doesn't actually handle it correctly. It's either an ungraceful stop, or an actually-correct shutdown without saying so, so that it shows the popup next time. I'm not sure which it is.

Anyway, the OS shutdown sequence involves sending the graceful-close signal to every app, waiting a while, and then asking you to force-close any that remain. If that's how you're "turning off" OBS, then you'll get the popup because it doesn't handle the graceful-close signal correctly.

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There's a command-line flag that you can use when you start OBS, to disable that popup, but I recently found the popup to be very useful! I got mine into a configuration that consistently crashed it on startup so I couldn't do anything at all, and choosing Safe Mode in the popup allowed me to fix it.

Don't disable that unless there really is no other option...like for another of my rigs that is complex enough to be set up and torn down by a script and not manually. I can't avoid shutting it down by a signal in that case, and so that rig specifically, has the command-line flag to disable the popup.I