OBS 26.1.2 crashes often, wasn't pre-Catalina; do I have an old plugin or something?

[Darude]

Hi guys!

I know it's probably vague, but I updated to 26.1.2 from 26.0.2 around the same time I upgraded from Mojave to Catalina and OBS started crashing. I did some new Stream Deck stuff, too, but it *should be* fine, it's just triggering scenes and activating and deactivating sources and I don't think it's about CPU usage, I'm not doing anything crazy demanding. This is pretty much crippling my streaming, as even though I can be back up and running in 30 seconds, as you know, a lot of the Twitch viewers are not going to stick around, and I don't blame them.

I know very little of the crash logs, so while I see 'crashed thread', I can't tell what would be the cause. The crashes are not directly related (that I can tell) to certain scene change for eg, but seemingly random, and I can go nuts going back and forth between scenes with mouse or Stream Deck and nothing happens, then sometimes when I'm not even doing anything the app crashes.

I deleted an old browser source plugin and moved for eg. lates NDI plugin and move-transition and source-switcher plugins out of the plugin folder, still got a crash afterwards.

 

[Darude]

More: Tried 26.0.2 again and that crashes now, too, which it pretty much never did. :/ Have removed virtual cam plugin and others that could be old (and 32bit(?) or otherwise something Catalina doesn’t approve) yet still crashing. I don’t know if I’m still missing something else.

 

[Darude]

I’ve read elsewhere about browser source being the culprit in a similar thing, but in that often crash happens right at OBS startup. Any news or similar experiences would be highly appreciated!

I first tried to deactivate all the browser sources > crashing, then took all the browser sources out of my active scene collection > still crashing. Do I need to take the actual browser source.so out of the folder for this to help? Or all browser sources out of ALL scenes in all scene collections? (The non-active collections should affect, right) Not a problem, can easily do (will just backup the normal existing ones first), but just would be nice to know if someone’s figured it out?

I can live without browser sources, sort of, for the time being, but removing them for now is only a workaround.