OBS Crashing - First day of use.

[TroyAU3199]

Very beginner. [Separately - I have been having issues getting an iPad or any other external source to display in NDI sources in OBS - another thread on that one.]

OBS now is crashing repeatedly. Any help greatly appreciated - please bear in mind my beginner status.

I cant include a log file as it crashes so quickly. However have attached the crash 'log'.

Regards,

 

[WBE]

Log files can be found at: %APPDATA%\obs-studio\logs

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Per pinned post in this forum

Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...

OBS Studio creates a log file each time you run it which contains very useful diagnostic information. Without a log file, it's much harder for any support volunteers to figure out problems and your post may be ignored. To upload a log file, go to the Help menu > Log Files > Upload Last Log...

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Then, in case easy to analyze, and you don't want to wait, you should try and see what the Log-Analyzer says about your log file:

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

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Then, lots of people posts OBS guides without context, so beware getting overly ambitious. (unless you have a brand new US$5,000+ dollar workstation)
First- hopefully you realize that real-time video encoding is VERY computationally demanding. [Repeat the word VERY many times, and you start to be in the ballpark]. I recommend monitoring hardware resource (CPU, GPU, RAM, Disk I/O, etc) utilization [for ex. using Task manager’s Performance tab and/or Resource Monitor] to see if your system is being maxed out with your settings https://obsproject.com/wiki/General-Performance-and-Encoding-Issues and https://obsproject.com/wiki/GPU-overload-issues

So start simple, avoid plugins, especially ones like StreamElements that puke all over OBS log, and have other code quality issues, and filter/effects like Chroma-keying, etc. You can start a adding filters/effects, etc after you get something working. Thaen do monitoring. Then layer on as your system can handle it.. you'll get much further, with less frustration, with this approach

Here's the quick-start guide:

OBS Studio Quickstart

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

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I'd also recommend watching the Nerd or Die tutorial video series:

OBS Studio Tutorial Series Introduction | Tutorial 1/13

Welcome to our OBS Studio tutorial series! In this series we're going to cover everything that you'll need to know to make your stream look great.Next Video...

www.youtube.com

 

[TroyAU3199]

Lawrence, thanks so much for detail. I also feel that it is likely CPU related that it crashed. I've not yet reviewed your details. But thank you.

WBE - I have no path that corresponds to what is proposed. Within path \appdata\roaming\obs-studio\logs was the file I loaded originally with the ticket.