OBS is slow to load and open settings, even with fresh install.

[MotR]

Hi!

I've encountered this weird issue. When I open OBS, my PC starts to run very-very slow to the point that my mouse cursor starts lagging, and if I press left mouse button there is a beeping sound that indicated system hanging. It is important to notice system does register mouse clicks but doesn't react to it right away (so I can open 15 new Chrome tabs at once if I click when OBS is being loaded). Also there is a noticeable delay for opening OBS settings which never happened since 2014 when I started using OBS. I thought maybe I have some incorrect settings or scenes with weirdly slow sources, so I backed them up and reinstalled OBS Studio without saving any settings. This did not help at all, freezing continued. With a clean install I cannot point out any potential outliers in my sources in log files, but I attached it in case some of you fine folks here can see what I cannot.

I appreciate your time and thank you in advance!

 

[MotR]

Bumped the post. Maybe someone actually has a clue what's going on.

 

[PaiSand]

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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[MotR]

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.

obsproject.com

So, um, the only bad thing this Analyzer tool can conclude is my WIndows version is old?

 

[PaiSand]

No Scenes/Sources

There are neither scenes nor sources added to OBS. You won't be able to record anything but a black screen without adding sources to your scenes.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

real-time video encoding is VERY computationally demanding and that is a 10yr old CPU. so beware your expectations

 

[MotR]

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real-time video encoding is VERY computationally demanding and that is a 10yr old CPU. so beware your expectations

What is real-time video encoding has to do with startup times? Performance for streaming is more than sastisfying, I get 720p60 medium or 810p60 faster on X264 no issues. With NVENC pretty much any resolution is great. This comment is unconstructive.

 

[MotR]

No Scenes/Sources

There are neither scenes nor sources added to OBS. You won't be able to record anything but a black screen without adding sources to your scenes.

Yes. That is the point. I deleted all my scenes and scene presets to check if the scenes cause this issue. And it's exactly the same as with all my sources and scenes.

 

[MotR]

Bumping this thread.

This issue is not caused by my weaker CPU as expected, I upgraded to Ryzen 5 5600, 32 gigs of RAM and RX 6800XT. The issue stayed completely the same. Can someone still think about what may be causing this issue?

 

[PaiSand]

Run the autoconfiguration wizard (tools menu) and apply the settings it gives. Restart OBS and test with one session streaming (if you stream) or recording (if you record) doing all you normally do and attach a new log file.
One session means one time start streaming/recording, do all your stuff, stop. Upload current log file and click on the Analyze button. Paste the URL in here.

 

[Puntherline]

Bump, same issue.

Ryzen 7 5800X, 32GB of 3200MHz RAM, GTX 1080, 2TB NVMe drive that definitely has enough space left, no scenes or sources added, most recent Windows 11 version, OBS Studio on latest version too, no plugins or anything the like.

I have no scenes or sources added, and when clicking the "Settings" button, it will take a few seconds to actually open them. However, what is weird is that the window technically already exists since I can see my cursor change from default arrow to resize when in the right spot - Kinda like the backend for it already loads but the frontend takes a bit.

Same thing happens with literally any other dialogue box: Adding scens, adding sources, deleting them, searching for updates, etc...

The rest of OBS works perfectly fine.

 

[PaiSand]

No logfile, no scenes and source, most probably not the same issue. Not even the same OBS version, and less the OS version.
Please create your own thread and follow instructions on the pinned posts.