Question / Help OBS Crashes as Soon as I click Start Stream

[catdome]

I'm sure there is already a thread, if so, much appreciated to link me!

My set up is a Ryzen 1400 with an ASUS STRIX 1070 OC edition. OBS was running super smooth and super great before i put in a value to my TDR settings in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers . I put the value of TDRLevel at 0. I did this to stop Fortnite from crashing every game. I succeeded in doing so, but now OBS is crashing. I always crashes as soon as i hit stream.

Any help would much be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

https://obsproject.com/logs/tENxt5Ai_DMV1uIt

 

[catdome]

Maybe this is it?

 

[koala]

The log you cited is not relevant to your problem. These are common entries that are present in every log. They tell some kind of status info, not some kind of real errors.

You set a registry key to cover a hardware issue between your gpu and your mainboard. The value you set tells Windows to ignore any timeout situation in the communication between gpu and cpu. A timeout only occurs if some hardware issue is present. It's this hardware issue you have to solve. You use a OC edition of a GPU - these may cause this kind of issue, even factory-overclocked. Revert this overclock to the standard clock timing with the overclocking tool of this GPU. In addition to that, an insufficient power supply may cause problems. Make sure you have a powerful enough power supply unit installed and that you connect the card with the required 2 power cables - not one cable that is split with a Y-connector.

If you ruled both out (OC and power supply), there may be some kind of incompatibility between your GPU and you mainboard. In this case, you're out of luck. Changing the GPU or the mainboard to a different brand could help in this case.

 

[catdome]

The log you cited is not relevant to your problem. These are common entries that are present in every log. They tell some kind of status info, not some kind of real errors.

You set a registry key to cover a hardware issue between your gpu and your mainboard. The value you set tells Windows to ignore any timeout situation in the communication between gpu and cpu. A timeout only occurs if some hardware issue is present. It's this hardware issue you have to solve. You use a OC edition of a GPU - these may cause this kind of issue, even factory-overclocked. Revert this overclock to the standard clock timing with the overclocking tool of this GPU. In addition to that, an insufficient power supply may cause problems. Make sure you have a powerful enough power supply unit installed and that you connect the card with the required 2 power cables - not one cable that is split with a Y-connector.

If you ruled both out (OC and power supply), there may be some kind of incompatibility between your GPU and you mainboard. In this case, you're out of luck. Changing the GPU or the mainboard to a different brand could help in this case.

I see what you are saying. This build is a Cyberpower prebuild that the owner had actually used an EVGA 1070TI SC and he reports no crashes with that, obviously supposedly. However my original runs seemed very fine. Literally when i would play everything runs super smooth, no dips in performance or anything like that. Its crash literally happens out of the blue (pun intended, get it? i get bluescreened? no? ok.) .. It's been a headache. So, based off your recommendation, i should see if i have any compatibility issues with either my mobo and GPU or power supply. What is a way i could test this?

koala you're a big help. Thank you

 

[WizardCM]

Try updating your BIOS. Otherwise, Help -> Crash Reports -> Upload last crash report and post the link.

 

[koala]

This is really beyond the scope of the OBS forum. It's basically a "fix my PC hardware" topic. If the computer ran fine with the original EVGA 1070 Ti, and crashes with the ASUS STRIX 1070 OC, then we found something: the new gpu doesn't run fine, the old one did. Open your computer once again and verify the seating of the GPU cards and power supply connections of the of the new GPU card. Take it out, remove the power cords from the card, then re-insert and reconnect everything. Perhaps it is only a small electronic glitch.
That's all I can say in the limited space here.

 

[catdome]

you're all are big help and you aren't wrong .. the reason i came to these forums was because at some point everything was fine but then OBS was crashing so i was confused. I'll go ahead and stop this right here and go into another forum. Thanks again guys, big help.