OBS makes my cs2 have freeze's

HLEB

New Member
Hi, I’m a professional Counter-Strike 2 player and I’m trying to start recording/streaming my gameplay. However, I’m running into a strange issue:


As soon as I launch OBS or Streamlabs, my game starts to stutter or micro-freeze, even though I’m not recording, streaming, or doing anything with it.
Just having OBS open causes frame hitching.



My System Specs:​

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3080 (latest drivers)
  • RAM: 32GB DDR5 @ 6000MHz
  • Monitor: 1080p @ 240Hz
  • Storage: NVMe SSD
  • OS: Windows 10 Pro

Things I’ve Already Tried (none of these fixed it):​


  • Game Capture, Display Capture, and Window Capture — all same result
  • Turning off Game Mode, and overlays (Steam, Discord, GeForce Experience)
  • Running OBS as administrator
  • Turning off Preview in OBS
  • Clean OBS install
  • BIOS settings checked — no PBO/EXPO instability
  • Tested both with and without scenes/sources
  • No plugins installed
  • Updated all drivers and Windows
  • Disabled all startup apps
  • Same behavior in both OBS and Streamlabs
  • Installed windows again
Everything worked normal in january when i streamed last time.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you!
 
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