EDIT: Jim explains the issue I was having in the next post. Thanks again Jim for being responsive and helpful!
tl;dr Display Capture is the culprit behind the freezing for me and it might have been because of a few different reasons. If I had to guess it'd be graphics drivers, since that was the latest driver update I've done (Nvidia 358.50.) Again though, it's a guess so not 100%. Anyways, for now I'll just avoid Display Capture unless I really need it.
Original post:
I use OBS-MP for local recordings of gameplay. Seemingly out of nowhere, my entire desktop starts to intermittently freeze up completely while I have OBS-MP open and, curiously, the recorded video has no skipped frames. Alt-tabbing has a noticeable delay of anywhere from 2 - 8 seconds, and clicking start can take up to 4 seconds to register, but only while OBS-MP is running.
As I'm sure anybody can imagine, this behavior is highly irritating and frustrating. I have no idea what may have caused this. (Driver updates? OBS-MP updates?) Either way, it's only started doing this in maybe the past 2 - 3 weeks. My system is more than capable of recording with OBS-MP with my chosen settings and has done so without issue in the past couple of months.
OBS-MP reports 1 - 2% cpu usage , and task manager doesn't show anything out of the ordinary either, yet my entire system chugs.
1000 kb/s Bitrate, Custom Buffer Size = 0, crf = 18.
Sorry if I've failed to provide any other relevant details. Any help would be really appreciated.
tl;dr Display Capture is the culprit behind the freezing for me and it might have been because of a few different reasons. If I had to guess it'd be graphics drivers, since that was the latest driver update I've done (Nvidia 358.50.) Again though, it's a guess so not 100%. Anyways, for now I'll just avoid Display Capture unless I really need it.
Original post:
I use OBS-MP for local recordings of gameplay. Seemingly out of nowhere, my entire desktop starts to intermittently freeze up completely while I have OBS-MP open and, curiously, the recorded video has no skipped frames. Alt-tabbing has a noticeable delay of anywhere from 2 - 8 seconds, and clicking start can take up to 4 seconds to register, but only while OBS-MP is running.
As I'm sure anybody can imagine, this behavior is highly irritating and frustrating. I have no idea what may have caused this. (Driver updates? OBS-MP updates?) Either way, it's only started doing this in maybe the past 2 - 3 weeks. My system is more than capable of recording with OBS-MP with my chosen settings and has done so without issue in the past couple of months.
OBS-MP reports 1 - 2% cpu usage , and task manager doesn't show anything out of the ordinary either, yet my entire system chugs.
1000 kb/s Bitrate, Custom Buffer Size = 0, crf = 18.
Sorry if I've failed to provide any other relevant details. Any help would be really appreciated.
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