Question / Help Low Bit-donations freeze on screen (Streamlabs/Twitchalerts + OBS)

Landyra

New Member
Repost from reddit, because no one answered there:

"Hi guys, for a bit over a month I've had the following issue now: When people cheer low bit-counts, the alert starts at instead of fading from the screen it freezes there mid-animation until I go into obs and refresh the browsersource.

That doesn't happen at higher cheers, I've only seen it for the grey alert. I already asked the streamlabs-support for help, they however couldn't help me.

Playing the test-alerts is no issue, they don't freeze in obs. Generally speaking none of the alerts freeze in the streamlabs-test-window, so I suppose it's got something to do with obs.

The problem hasn't occured before I started using bit-boss. Some people told me the problem comes from the sound the bit boss makes, it however still happens with the sound disabled. I deleted and re-added both features already.

Does anyone know a solution for this?

While I'm streaming hearthstone it's not much of a hassle to quickly tab into obs and refresh (double click + ok) the browser source of twitchalerts, but when I stream fullscreen-games I have to actually tab out of the game window completely after waiting for a fight-free moment that allows me to do this. That means in some situations the frozen alerts stay on the screen for a minute or so, which looks pretty dumb ._.

(I would prefer NOT to disable/change the grey alert or bit boss, as I see other people using them together just fine)"

Edit: It happened once with 100 bits too, by now. But the other ~5 times I got a purple alert for 100+ bits it went through fine.
A fix I already tried that did not help was validating the entire obs-folder in my antivirus.



I already contacted Streamlabs-Support about this issue and they told me it's most likely coming from obs and has nothing to do with them.


As of now, I do not have a log file from a stream with this issue, I guess I'll have to wait until it happens again. I'm still gonna post this already if someone knows a fix for this by coincidence.
 

Xaymar

Active Member
The Browser Source in OBS is an almost 1:1 match with Chrome, so if it happens in OBS it will also happen in a browser (if the same Chromium runtime is used). I personally have never experienced it, so I will not claim that this isn't an issue with Chromium or OBS but Streamlabs should be able to give you better help - they wrote it after all.

One thing you can try however is to disable your Anti-Virus. Chromium doesn't actively freeze itself, that would have to be done either by the code it's running (the alert box in this case) or by an outside source (Anti-Virus, Firewall, game mode software).
 

Landyra

New Member
The Browser Source in OBS is an almost 1:1 match with Chrome, so if it happens in OBS it will also happen in a browser (if the same Chromium runtime is used). I personally have never experienced it, so I will not claim that this isn't an issue with Chromium or OBS but Streamlabs should be able to give you better help - they wrote it after all.

One thing you can try however is to disable your Anti-Virus. Chromium doesn't actively freeze itself, that would have to be done either by the code it's running (the alert box in this case) or by an outside source (Anti-Virus, Firewall, game mode software).

The bits do not freeze in the chrome launcher of Streamlabs.
Unfortunately, I can't disable my antivirus during streaming as I still use websites during streaming and don't want to risk that.
I do have a log file from my stream yesterday, when some of the follower alerts surprisingly froze, if that could help.
 
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