OBS Freezing and causing BSOD

[g3bates]

Hi,

I have been streaming for a few months. In the last week, I started having an issue where when I open OBS, shortly after it loads, my computer starts lagging, then just freezes and I get the BSOD with the stop code: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. Everything else seems to work fine. I have updated my GPU driver (GTX1080 studio driver), I updated my network driver. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Streamlabs. I ran an SFC scan. It found errors and fixed them. I also have a similar problem when trying to open OBS Studio too. I can play games fine. I can encode video fine (using NVENC) with other apps. Any others have this issue and have possible solutions?

 

[FerretBomb]

We cannot provide any support for Streamlabs OBS here. SLOBS is not OBS Studio, it is a derivative version hacked up by Streamlabs (since OBS Studio is open-source) with the front end removed and a webpage slapped over the top. If you need support for SLOBS, you will need to contact Streamlabs.

That said, a DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD wouldn't be caused by OBS or SLOBS, though they might trigger an existing one. That's a system-level failure code, not application-level. It's out-of-scope for support here, but I'd recommend Googling for 'DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE Windows 10' and looking through the results. There are a lot of them, many with a ton of potential causes to investigate, and solutions. Far too many for us to guide you through tracking down the problematic one.

It's almost never a bad idea to do a preventative DDU graphics card driver cleaning though, and do a fresh graphics driver install to rule out any lingering crud from older drivers sticking around as causing issues.