Is their anything like a safe mode for troubleshooting OBS Win. 10?

[Want To Learn]

Hi,
I am a newbie at troubleshooting in Windows, but I am puzzled as to why OBS crashes at startup. I am trying to troubleshoot this issue and I can't seem to find the answer. I have reinstalled OBS and did a lot of deleting of other apps and tried compatibility mode among other things. My thought is that it's not OBS at all, it is a conflict with other software or it's requiring a lot of CPU power. I would like to try two things: 1. Get OBS in a safe mode to set settings that might be taking up too much CPU or something or I would like to disassemble the OBS folder, so that I could get OBS started with minimal plugins and scenes and then reinstall everything else until it crashes.

Ok. I will admit I am doing something that is not recommended, but for my purposes it is working. Their is more OBS software for a PC then their is for a Mac, so I like to try it. I own a Mac OS High Sierra i7core 64gb. I have set up a virtualbox VM of Win 10. I can do a few things in the VM, but of course not a lot. Enough to keep me interested. What is puzzling to me is when I start a new VM OBS is fine, but this particular VM it crashes upon startup. I have reset the Win 10 OS and have deleted some apps and used some cleaner.

I'm very curious as to what went wrong. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Want To Learn

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Have you searched this forum? lots of conversations in last month or two about an Intel driver update needed for some systems to avoid a crash at OBS start up

 

[Want To Learn]

Have you searched this forum? lots of conversations in last month or two about an Intel driver update needed for some systems to avoid a crash at OBS start up

Thanks so much for your quick response, but OBS does work in the current configuration. It did and all of a sudden it crashes. Also, when I start a brand new VM with Win 10 it works. I believe that I must have installed something or did something in this VM that didn't agree with OBS to make it crash....I'm just very curious to avoid it in the future.

 

[Want To Learn]

Hi, Just to follow up, which I did on other posts. It was not OBS it was the sound driver that is in Virtualbox. I had experimented and found when "audio in" is checked in the Virtual manager before Win 10 loads in any sound application crashes. My host Mac can handle it, but very puzzling if I want to record anything in Win 10. Thanks!