Bug Report OBS crashes too silently

[SlugFiller]

When I'm recording a DirectX game, and the game crashes, OBS crashes as well. However, it doesn't pop up any window or alert until I click the tray icon. It continues showing the tray icon as recording. I've lost many of hours of recording due to OBS not actually bothering to inform me that it had crashed and needed to be restarted.

I can deal with the occasional crash, but only if I'm properly informed about it.

 

[R1CH]

I would try to fix whatever is causing the crashing in the first place. When something crashes, it cannot run cleanup code. Removing the notification icon is only possible during a normal shutdown.

 

[SlugFiller]

I don't mind the notification icon staying. The real problem is that there is literally no notification of the crash until I actually click on the icon. No "This program has crashed" window pops up, nothing. If I could at least see a new window in the tray, it'd give me some indication that something happened.

Anyway, the crash itself that I'm experiencing is extremely easy to reproduce: Start a program. Set "Game Capture" to it. Start recording. Use Task Manager to kill the program.

From what I can tell, OBS already uses dbghelp.dll to control crash reports, and that may be part of why a standard crash dialog never shows up. Showing something slightly more visible, or Always On Top, would really help

 

[Osiris]

Sounds more like a conflicting hook.