OBS keeps crashing when recording....

[Evil_Cabbage]

I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling OBS, factory resetting my computer (wiping everything clean), running OBS in admin mode, making sure windows firewall isn't blocking it, closing third party apps, and several other small fixes to try and get it to work. It does not matter what source I use to try and capture footage. It does not matter what game I record. Nothing works and it will crash in the middle of recording. I've never had this issue in my 5 years of using OBS until this year. It's been going on for about 3 months now and I figured an update would fix it, but nope.

I'm honestly frustrated. I haven't been able to record consistently at all in these 3 months. Every now and then I'll be able to record an entire matches worth of gameplay, but that's rare.

Specs:
i5 13600k 3070 ti
16 GB RAM
1 TB SSD
4 TB HDD

Neither of my hard drives are corrupted. All of my components are working as intended.

Log:

https://obsproject.com/logs/ExNekubXV2uKD8Ah

 

[Evil_Cabbage]

Recording in .mkv fixes the issue for now. It will still crash when I go to stop the recording instead of at random intervals when recording in .mp4, but at least it's something.

Ever since I updated OBS I've had this issue. I will not be updating OBS in the meantime as I don't want anymore issues. It seems as if I'm not the only person this is happening to.

 

[Harold]

Keep your OBS up to date and set the recording encoder's preset to P1 instead of P7

 

[Evil_Cabbage]

Keep your OBS up to date and set the recording encoder's preset to P1 instead of P7

I spoke too soon .mkv will still crash in the middle of recording. I refuse to go down in quality as my hardware is more than sufficient. I've never had an issue with this before.

My computer is cleaner than bleach. I'm at a loss.

 

[Harold]

Because you're using CQP as your rate control, quality will not drop. By using P7, you're intentionally overloading your system for no gain.

 

[PaiSand]

Turn off HAGS and enable Windows Game Mode

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

 

[Evil_Cabbage]

Because you're using CQP as your rate control, quality will not drop. By using P7, you're intentionally overloading your system for no gain.

Why would it work for 1.5 years+ with no issues and then all of a sudden cause trouble? Dropping that setting does seem to fix it though.

Edit

P1-P7 essentially just changes file size not quality correct?

 

[Evil_Cabbage]

Turn off HAGS and enable Windows Game Mode

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

I'll try this and report back.

 

[Harold]

P1-P7 essentially just changes file size not quality correct?

When using CQP as the rate control, yes. Higher numbers in that preset increase the quality per bitrate, reducing the file size at the cost of encoder/GPU load. P6 and P7 use shared components of the GPU for some of the encoding process where P1-5 only use the dedicated nvenc components.

 

[Evil_Cabbage]

When using CQP as the rate control, yes. Higher numbers in that preset increase the quality per bitrate, reducing the file size at the cost of encoder/GPU load. P6 and P7 use shared components of the GPU for some of the encoding process where P1-5 only use the dedicated nvenc components.

I appreciate the insight it's very helpful. If I continue to have problems I'll just drop it to 1 and leave it at that.

Turn off HAGS

This seemed to be the issue. Interestingly this seemed to occur around when I upgraded to Windows 11. After turning this off I'm back to my old ways. No idea why Microsoft would add something like this, but I'm no software developer so who knows.

 

[Evil_Cabbage]

Disabling HAGs 100% fixed the issue.