Max Audio Buffering on audio source that's disabled?? Help??

hi_im_daft

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Most recent log: https://obsproject.com/logs/zgu8FqRX06Lh_gMN

Hey guys. I'm running into an issue where I'm hitting Max Audio Buffering and it's causing my audio on stream and recordings to stutter horribly until I restart OBS.

The issue is that it's being caused by the microphone on my webcam. I don't have it set as an active audio source in OBS (though I fear it's piggybacking off my video capture from the webcam), and I've even gone so far as to disable that particular audio capture device inside Windows settings, and yet I'm still running into the issue.

It only started happening about two weeks ago (same camera and whole other setup prior, no issue). I thought maybe it was a change in USB port causing it so I've switched it around a couple times, but still didn't resolve.

Does anyone have any suggestions or advise as to what I should do here? Enclosed are four logs of it happening, I doubt that much is necessary, but I figured just in case...

EDIT: Oh, also to clarify, I've been watching my Task Manager when it's happening too. My GPU is perfectly fine, usually hovering around 50% usage, my CPU is also not even close to hitting ceiling, even looking at individual cores. RAM fine, disk access (for recording) fine, ethernet throughput fine...so that all checks out at least.
 

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hi_im_daft

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I believe I maaaaaay have solved the issue, as I got through a full 3 hour stream without the error. Under my webcam capture settings, the "Use custom audio device" flag got checked, and for some reason that appears to have been causing the buffering issues. I'll keep checking back and confirm if this fixed it after my next stream on Tuesday.
 

JohnBBeta

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I believe I maaaaaay have solved the issue, as I got through a full 3 hour stream without the error. Under my webcam capture settings, the "Use custom audio device" flag got checked, and for some reason that appears to have been causing the buffering issues. I'll keep checking back and confirm if this fixed it after my next stream on Tuesday.
I'm having the same error and wondering if this definitely fixed your isse?
 
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