So for months now I've been having an issue with my pc where every time I try to stream my pc freezes then blue screens with a watch dog error. I literally can't stream. I've tried everything from reinstalling graphic drivers, updating any and all drivers on my pc, updating SSD firmware, switching my GPU out for another, removing any hardware that could potentially be causing this issue, running memory diagnostic with it coming back clean, running Windows system check for corrupt files that were fixed, uninstalling obs wiping all files and reinstalling obs, switched from obs.live StreamElements to plain OBS studio, it even got to the point I needed to completely reinstall windows because it kept happening every time I tried using OBS but that didn't seem to do the trick either.
I can browse my pc just fine. Going online, even play some games without this happening. Yet as soon as I start up obs, start my game, my pc freezes and it blue screens with a watch dog error, only ever a dpc_watch_dog error. It seems to only happen when I'm trying to stream or have obs open for a certain amount of time with my game. There has been times I wasn't even streaming it froze and crashed with no watch dog error, and sometimes it crashed with a watch dog error without streaming. I have the latest drivers, the latest Windows update.
At this point I'm pulling my hair not knowing what could be causing this. I've tried every fix in the book, run a good deal of different diagnostics and to no avail, nothing seems to solve this issue. I've attached the most recent crashes with obs I have, and my spec are below and current obs settings. If anyone has had this issue and has solved, I would be more than grateful if you could give me some insight. If this continues with a solution, I have to stop streaming all together, and I really don't want that. I should also mention that under the sources setting for browser source hardware acceleration was turn on before. I turned this off thinking it would help and not really sure what it would do, I didn't see many results or a difference as it still crashed but thought it's worth mentioning.
I can browse my pc just fine. Going online, even play some games without this happening. Yet as soon as I start up obs, start my game, my pc freezes and it blue screens with a watch dog error, only ever a dpc_watch_dog error. It seems to only happen when I'm trying to stream or have obs open for a certain amount of time with my game. There has been times I wasn't even streaming it froze and crashed with no watch dog error, and sometimes it crashed with a watch dog error without streaming. I have the latest drivers, the latest Windows update.
At this point I'm pulling my hair not knowing what could be causing this. I've tried every fix in the book, run a good deal of different diagnostics and to no avail, nothing seems to solve this issue. I've attached the most recent crashes with obs I have, and my spec are below and current obs settings. If anyone has had this issue and has solved, I would be more than grateful if you could give me some insight. If this continues with a solution, I have to stop streaming all together, and I really don't want that. I should also mention that under the sources setting for browser source hardware acceleration was turn on before. I turned this off thinking it would help and not really sure what it would do, I didn't see many results or a difference as it still crashed but thought it's worth mentioning.
- Motherboard ~ Gigabyte B450 AORUS M - Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
- GPU ~ Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB
CPU ~ AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor - RAM ~ G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 RAM
- PSU ~ Apevia ATXPrestige 800W 80+ Gold
- SSD ~ silison power 500gb
