OBS 28.0.3 freezing when camera is enabled

[cdubbsworld]

Hello Everyone,

OBS is freezing and I'm unsure why. It originally started out with the webcam source freezing so I thought it was my webcam so I replaced it. Now, OBS is freezing anytime the webcam is enable. I'm not gaming, streaming or recording. Just opening OBS, enabling the camera and it locks up.

Troubleshooting So Far:
1. Uninstalled, rebooted, Reinstalled.
2. Removed the Camera Source - I removed the camera source, and no freezing. Once I add it back it freezes within seconds.
3. I've tried 2 different webcams and the behavior is the same. I used different usb ports and cables.


CPU - i5 12600K
Ram - 32GB
GPU - 3080
Windows 11

Log File: https://obsproject.com/logs/33Bluf_jRisMNT2w

Crash Report: https://obsproject.com/logs/RZWJ9yyjTwsS-xEJ

 

[.norman.]

i am not sure but it looks like it could be a stream elements filter applied to your webcam. try to remove stream elements and see if that helps.

 

[cdubbsworld]

i am not sure but it looks like it could be a stream elements filter applied to your webcam. try to remove stream elements and see if that helps.

Thanks. I forgot I even have the Nvidia background remover enabled. I will test and report back.

Edit: It seems to be working fine now without the filter. I enabled it and it freezes within seconds. I wonder why the NVIDIA Background Removal is causing OBS to crash.

 

[PaiSand]

The crash is happening in a custom dock or browser source. Most probably the streamelements plugin causes it.
My recommendation, remove it. You don't need it at all. At least until they fix this issues. Yes, you're not the first.

If you upgraded OBS on top of se.live, then you must first uninstall se.live, then uninstall OBS, remove all the remaining files of se.live from %appdata%\obs-studio , reinstall OBS. Test
Don't forget to backup scene collections and profiles, just in case.

Also, keep GPU drivers updated.

 

[cdubbsworld]

The crash is happening in a custom dock or browser source. Most probably the streamelements plugin causes it.
My recommendation, remove it. You don't need it at all. At least until they fix this issues. Yes, you're not the first.

If you upgraded OBS on top of se.live, then you must first uninstall se.live, then uninstall OBS, remove all the remaining files of se.live from %appdata%\obs-studio , reinstall OBS. Test
Don't forget to backup scene collections and profiles, just in case.

Also, keep GPU drivers updated.

Thanks for your feed back. The crashing/freezing was happening before I installed se.live. I was able to find that the Nvidia Background Removal was causing the issue. IDK if it was a bad SDK install or what but disabling that plugin fixed the issue.