OBS GPU usage randomly jumping to 75%+, lagging entire PC

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meatyw

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Hi, I'm currently dealing with an issue where I can be streaming normally for a while without issues then suddenly OBS's GPU usage will spike extremely high where my overall GPU usage is at 100%. It makes the entire PC lag/completely freeze until I manage to close OBS and the game I'm playing. It even bricked my PC to the point where I had to do a BIOS reset to even get into my PC. While I'm streaming without issue, OBS's GPU usage sits around 10%.

I've tried running OBS in admin mode, updating GPU drivers, switching to CPU encoding, and lowering game settings. It seems like a very odd issue because it can work fine for a while then just randomly explode. I noticed some errors in the logs but they are 20 minutes before it starts being an issue.

I've streamed for 3+ hours before the issue started and its also started after an hour, with nothing being consistent to whats happening in game when it starts.

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koala

koala

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May be GPU overheating. This would match with the system freezing/becoming instable.
 
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rockbottom

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It may not be overheating but it clearly is overloaded.
04:26:19.440: Output 'adv_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 8373 (1.2%)

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Your Scenes need to be addressed as there's multiple, Game/Window/Display captures in several of them. Only (1) per.

SE is a joke, nothing but errors, start fixing them.
 
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meatyw

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rockbottom said:
It may not be overheating but it clearly is overloaded.
04:26:19.440: Output 'adv_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 8373 (1.2%)

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Your Scenes need to be addressed as there's multiple, Game/Window/Display captures in several of them. Only (1) per.

SE is a joke, nothing but errors, start fixing them.
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any idea how to fix the streamelements errors?
 
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luiz freitas

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Same problem here 2 years ago, with the 2080 / 3080 and now with the 4080, I can't use obs because of this, then the fanboys arrive saying "check the output, leave it simple, use cqp and bla bla bla"
 
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AaronD

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luiz freitas said:
...then the fanboys arrive saying "check the output, leave it simple, use cqp and bla bla bla"
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You mean the well-experienced people who know what they're talking about?

Did you try their suggestions? If not, you don't have a valid argument. If so, say so and report the problems that you still have, with all of the information that we ask for to help you fix them.
 
KingKong77

KingKong77

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Hello,


In your log, there are some reccurent errors:
Code: 
03:44:27.422: [obs-browser: 'Overlay'] Error: [Report Only] Refused to load the script 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1.6.26/webfont.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'none'". Note that 'script-src-elem' was not explicitly set, so 'script-src' is used as a fallback.
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04:01:30.720: [obs-browser: 'Overlay'] Error: [Report Only] Refused to evaluate a string as JavaScript because 'unsafe-eval' is not an allowed source of script in the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'none'".
04:01:30.720:  (https://streamelements.com/overlay/scripts/vendor.js:censored)
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Lot of libraries are not loaded and tons of cumulated javascript errors.
Someone has pointed out this in a post about a common issue with Javascript errors.

I have been having this same issue for 2 weeks now. After banging my head against a wall I looked at the log files and saw Java Script. This is the most common language used to program alerts/overalys/animated borders/etc. Turning these off will fix your issue. I would keep them off until the issue can be resolved.
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This could be a good start to find out your issue.
 
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rockbottom

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There's still some errors in there, one of them is this overlay.
20:07:47.766: [obs-browser: 'Alerts'] Error: [GraphQL] One or more GraphQL errors were detected on request 01HJPE7TKEKAN1JJHZRX1Z6V0R. ActivityListContextV2Query: server error [object Object] (https://static.twitchcdn.net/assets/sunlight-overlay-b783d05330b21c2487dc.js:1)

You're using Global & Source audio, I use one or the other but not both. I never tested using both concurrently, so no idea what could be going on there.

Main monitor is at 59HZ, can't it be set @ 60?

Dial back the in game settings so your GPU isn't getting tapped out.
 
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rockbottom

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Your audio set-up appears to be incorrect. I'll let you dig deeper.

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meatyw

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Well none of the adjustments seemed to do anything. I got to the point where OBS wouldn't even open without my computer freezing up, so I did a clean reinstall of OBS and now everything is perfect and the issue hasn't happened again. Don't know what the issue was.
 
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Carlos726811

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I had the exact Same issue. I managed to solve it.
I Uninstalled OBS and all the plugins. Re-installed fresh.
I have Hardware GPU Scheduling enabled.
Capped frames in Nvidia Control panels..
Now my GPU usage for OBS is now 15% when streaming....
 
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