OBS not responding

[TommyF22]

Anyone able to give me any help as to why OBS becomes non responsive constantly?

Win11
3070ti
I7 12700k
32GB DDR4 3600 mhz Ram
System and OBS running from a 1TB Nvme

PC is fresh. Nothing installed other than essential drivers, discord, nvidia control panel, VLC, steam ( a few games) and OBS.

OBS is latest version installed from here. No plugins or scripts added.

I was trying to stream harry potter a while back but every 30 mins or so OBS became unresponsive and the stream crashed so I just gave up. Been trying to stream again recently but OBS just becomes non responsive after some time bit rate goes to 0 and the stream disconnects. OBS becomes unresponsive and needs to be forced to close (I've waited 5-10 mins and it never became responsive again) Doesn't provide me with crash reports as I guess it doesn't recognize it as a crash.

Anyone know a fix for this or should I just look for alternative software?

 

[PaiSand]

Make sure all your drivers are updated, not only the GPU driver, but the motherboard and probably the BIOS too.
OBS do provide you with a log file, which is requaried and explained in one of the pinned posts you do saw in here.

 

[gurgietrueshot]

By any chance do you have the latest October Windows update installed? I stream a church service every Sunday. Dedicated laptop only used for this. Setup has been working great for months. Today OBS hangs after streaming for about 10 minutes. I uninstalled KB5030651 which was installed on October 10th and was able to stream about 40 minutes without it hanging up on me.