OBS Maxing Out GPU with 90%+ Usage From Capture Source

[TimeRocker]

Anyone ever run into an issue with OBS suddenly maxing out the GPU for seemingly no reason? The past month or so, after a few days of leaving my PC on, OBS will suddenly have massive encoding overloading. CPU usage will be around 20% or so, but then I check task manager and OBS it using 90%+ of my GPU.

The cause seems to be stemming from my capture card source, because when I disable it/unview it, the GPU usage drops down to normal. If I run the capture card through it's own software, GPU usage is fine as well, which means OBS is the cause. The only way I know to currently fix it is by restarting the PC or reinstalling/updating my NVIDIA Driver. This issue doesn't happen when I'm capturing a game on the PC itself, only from the capture card source, which makes me believe there is some kind of bug/leak causing this problem and why it doesn't happen until my PC has been on for a few days/after a few streams.

Here is my log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/jQH4JuMzAeCQvtF4

 

[prgmitchell]

You have a ton of filters added to your capture card source including multiple VST filters which could be the issue.

00:04:55.624:     - source: 'Console' (dshow_input)
00:04:55.624:         - monitoring: monitor only
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'VST 2.x Plug-in' (vst_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Video Delay (Async)' (async_delay_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Color Correction PS5' (color_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Color Correction Switch' (color_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'VR' (color_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Gain' (gain_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'VST 2.x Plug-in 2' (vst_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter_v2)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'HDR Tone Mapping (Override)' (hdr_tonemap_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Color Correction PS5 HDR' (color_filter_v2)

 

[TimeRocker]

You have a ton of filters added to your capture card source including multiple VST filters which could be the issue.

00:04:55.624:     - source: 'Console' (dshow_input)
00:04:55.624:         - monitoring: monitor only
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'VST 2.x Plug-in' (vst_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Video Delay (Async)' (async_delay_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Color Correction PS5' (color_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Color Correction Switch' (color_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'VR' (color_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Gain' (gain_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'VST 2.x Plug-in 2' (vst_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter_v2)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'HDR Tone Mapping (Override)' (hdr_tonemap_filter)
00:04:55.624:         - filter: 'Color Correction PS5 HDR' (color_filter_v2)

I can turn them off and it doesn't affect the GPU usage. So far the only way I've found to fix the problem what it starts is to reinstall the graphics driver or restart my PC. I can stream without issue for multiple days, then randomly as soon as I hit "Start Streaming" I start getting encoding overloading and big frame drops and every time, it's OBS using up 90% of my GPU when normally it maxes out around 40%. This issue just started happening about a month or 2 ago. I've had those filters setup for years without problem.

 

[prgmitchell]

does not matter, if you've narrowed it down to that source and you are 100% confident you don't have issues with it disabled then you need to remove (not just disable) all the filters from the source and test again until you are satisfied that it is resolved.