OBS MP Crashes Entire Computer

[Y30]

do i need a dedicated GPU in order to use OBS? I guess for higher quality and 3d games but i've literally been playing 2D games that doesn't require that much so any ideas on why OBS MP decided to act up now?

 

[dping]

do i need a dedicated GPU in order to use OBS? I guess for higher quality and 3d games but i've literally been playing 2D games that doesn't require that much so any ideas on why OBS MP decided to act up now?

capture and scaling are done in the GPU and the GPUs vRAM so it is more important when downscaling which in most cases are the machines that are to weak the run 1080p. without a dedicated GPU you can actually expect higher CPU usage and stuttering at times.

 

[Y30]

so is there literally no other solution other than my laptop sucks and i need to get a better laptop/desktop with a dedicated gpu???

 

[dping]

so is there literally no other solution other than my laptop sucks and i need to get a better laptop/desktop with a dedicated gpu???

if a laptop has switchable graphics such as optimus it will work but those are still a pain.

you could try quicksync instead of x264 in the encoding tab. it might work..

 

[Y30]

update on this whole problem. updated my laptop to windows 10 and then found a driver info software in order to update all my drivers with ones that are for the windows 10 OS and then tried OBS and it now works perfectly! My drivers might have been the main problem but I'm still not sure where the problem first began,

 

[Timebomb]

There's no way to tell honestly at the moment there's no guarantee that it's even a software problem.

Can you run msinfo32 (Right click start, Run, msinfo32.exe) and save the report and upload it somewhere so I can take a look?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/65n3vwnqnv92cfr/Specs.nfo?dl=0

Link ^ I'm having the same issues. I legit have an upgraded PC and I don't understand how this could possibly happen. It may be that one of my drivers isn't updated and is screwing me over, but it's just difficult to pinpoint what's going on. I would appreciate whatever help I can get <3

 

[Adrian Schofield]

@Timebomb please start a new thread. The OPs problem is resolved by upgrading to Windows 10, your problem happens on Windows 10 so highly likely its a different issue. Make sure all your drivers are up to date before starting a new thread

 

[David Driver]

Hi, I'm having the same problems as Adrian. I realise this is a old post but i can't find any newer ones anywhere with these issues. I can stream for a while but then it just makes this annoying buzzing noise and i cannot do anything but hard reset. Here is my log file of the last crash. Any help on this matter would be very much appreciated.

 

[dping]

I realise this is a old post but i can't find any newer ones anywhere with these issues.

Then make one.

https://obsproject.com/forum/list/windows-support.32/create-thread