Bug Report OBS crashes in middle of streaming, maybe DxTory involved

[XabierDellugo]

Hi there, I have recently been suffering many OBS crashes in my stream, recently I got a tiny upload speed upgrade from my ISP, so I raised the encoder bitrate on OBS, it was running kinda smoothly but then it crashed for the first time, thinking maybe I raised the encoder bitrate too much I lowered it back a bit, but the stream started lagging because someone else was using my bandwidth, so I lowered the bitrate even more, few minutes later (1h36m later, as the recorded streaming reports) it crashed, even if I was encoding at a very low bitrate, so I discarded it could be by pushing the encoder to a very high bitrate that my bandwidth couldn't handle.

So I got this crash log, where it says it's something to do with DxTory, however I've been streaming long time ago using DxTory along with OBS buddy so I think there must be another reason behind, I'm posting this so you can help me clearify this issue.
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OBS has encountered an unhandled exception and has terminated. If you are able to
reproduce this crash, please submit this crash report on the forums at
http://www.obsproject.com/ - include the contents of this crash log and the
minidump .dmp file (if available) as well as your regular OBS log files and
a description of what you were doing at the time of the crash.

This crash appears to have occured in the 'c:\program files (x86)\dxtory software\dxtory2.0\dxtoryvideo64.dll' module.

**** UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: c0000005
Fault address: 000007FEF4398085 (c:\program files (x86)\dxtory software\dxtory2.0\dxtoryvideo64.dll)
OBS version: Open Broadcaster Software v0.542b
Windows version: 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz

Crashing thread stack trace:
Stack EIP Arg0 Arg1 Arg2 Arg3 Address
000000000BCBF7C8 000007FEF4398085 0000000000000000 000000000807F4F4 0000000008211CB0 0000000008211CC0 dxtoryvideo64.dll!0x7fef4398085
000000000BCBF7D0 0000000000001F80 000000000807F4F4 0000000008211CB0 0000000008211CC0 0000000000000000 <unknown>!0x1f80

A minidump was saved to C:\Users\XabierDellugo\AppData\Roaming\OBS\crashDumps\OBSCrashDump2013-08-11_2.dmp.
Please include this file when posting a crash report.

List of loaded modules:
Base Address Module

 

[dodgepong]

Re: OBS crashes in middle of streaming, maybe DxTory involve

It does look like DxTory is part of the crash, though I personally don't know what the issue is.

As a side note, though, is there a reason you need to use DxTory? OBS's game capture works really well for DX9 games and above.

 

[XabierDellugo]

Re: OBS crashes in middle of streaming, maybe DxTory involve

well, everytime I try to use OBS native game capture, it gets behind many frames, the sound in the broadcast ends being seconds or minutes ahead video after some time, DxTory keeps in the line all the time instead.

my specs are Core 2 Duo e8500 @3.4GHz, 8GB RAM DDR3, and ATI 4870 1GB. I guess whenever I get to the core i5/i7 generation I'll be able to trash DxTory and have fun with OBS native's game capture stuff.

 

[XabierDellugo]

Re: OBS crashes in middle of streaming, maybe DxTory involve

UPDATE: It seems the crashing issue was due to an unstable RAM overclocking setup, since yesterday I ran MemTest all night and gave lots of errors, today I fixed it (or at least it seems) and will be broadcasting later, hopefully it won't crash again, I'll stay in touch here with results.