I was streaming flawlessly earlier, but unfortunately the stream preview froze completely in OBS. Only the preview froze, not the entire OBS program. I couldn't see my scenes switching, game running, etc. but the stream continued to run fine and when I'd switch scenes, it would still switch them on the stream's end. I was still able to move the docks around, click around, add or remove sources/scenes, go through settings etc. JUST the preview froze. Any ideas? It happened right after Elden Ring minimized on its own, almost like it Alt-Tabbed itself or had a mini crash. Here are the logs as well I believed it happened right around 12:50:00ish.
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OBS Preview freezes completely, however, stream continues flawlessly on backend
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Royalstride
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I have a similar issue, it's driving me crazy, Screen flickers for one second, even when playing silly games like Dave the Diver, preview freezes completely, the rest of the stream goes perfectly fine too, can move everything, it is so weird and i can't find how to solve it
Hopefully someone smarter than us can figure it out lol. Are you using an NVIDIA card? It almost seemed like a video card crash / flicker. I have a 3080 + Ryzen 5600x.I have a similar issue, it's driving me crazy, Screen flickers for one second, even when playing silly games like Dave the Diver, preview freezes completely, the rest of the stream goes perfectly fine too, can move everything, it is so weird and i can't find how to solve it
AlexMacBen
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Hello everybody,
TLDR - NVIDIA control panel - 3d Settings - manage 3d settings - feature, power management mode - Adaptive.
I'd like to offer this solution as I have been struggling for months with this exact issue and I see that many others have been too. I have only tried a couple of streams since I changed this setting but they have been with games that had previously caused the problem. The freezes usually happens a couple of hours into stream and I have gone on longer now without the issue occurring again. If you change this setting and still have the preview freeze first of all, sorry, but maybe some other things I have tried are working in combination. Games were more likely to cause the freeze if they were in fullscreen mode, try windowed or borderless. Make sure you're not having conflicts with your game/obs resolution and downscaling. You need to be using NVENC h264 and not x264 (I haven't actually tested the difference but this seems to be the preferred way). I believe this is an encoding issue and not a VST problem as suggested. I have run my stream in safe mode (which disables VSTs) with problem games and got the freeze within 20 minutes. Another thing that you have probably already seen is disabling Hardware Accelerated Graphics Scaling or whatever it is in your Windows graphics settings and also Game Mode (I don't think Game Mode changed anything for me).
Here's a temporary band-aid if you get a freeze and need to go on a bit longer (but keep in mind it will eventually break too). You can enable Studio Mode and see another live preview of your stream. This can also freeze. A very last resort would be disable the preview until you need it and only turn it on when you absolutely need to see if your scene/changes/etc is live.
I am using an RTX 2060 super with an i5. This may or may not be better than your gear. I am not a computerman. I don't exactly know what is happening. Some sort of bottleneck thing with the cpu not diverting enough to the gpu. So please take caution such as monitoring your cpu and gpu loads and temps. Do a backup, I don't know, but this worked for me and I totally understand any frustration you may have had. I hope this works for you. Peace and love.
TLDR - NVIDIA control panel - 3d Settings - manage 3d settings - feature, power management mode - Adaptive.
I'd like to offer this solution as I have been struggling for months with this exact issue and I see that many others have been too. I have only tried a couple of streams since I changed this setting but they have been with games that had previously caused the problem. The freezes usually happens a couple of hours into stream and I have gone on longer now without the issue occurring again. If you change this setting and still have the preview freeze first of all, sorry, but maybe some other things I have tried are working in combination. Games were more likely to cause the freeze if they were in fullscreen mode, try windowed or borderless. Make sure you're not having conflicts with your game/obs resolution and downscaling. You need to be using NVENC h264 and not x264 (I haven't actually tested the difference but this seems to be the preferred way). I believe this is an encoding issue and not a VST problem as suggested. I have run my stream in safe mode (which disables VSTs) with problem games and got the freeze within 20 minutes. Another thing that you have probably already seen is disabling Hardware Accelerated Graphics Scaling or whatever it is in your Windows graphics settings and also Game Mode (I don't think Game Mode changed anything for me).
Here's a temporary band-aid if you get a freeze and need to go on a bit longer (but keep in mind it will eventually break too). You can enable Studio Mode and see another live preview of your stream. This can also freeze. A very last resort would be disable the preview until you need it and only turn it on when you absolutely need to see if your scene/changes/etc is live.
I am using an RTX 2060 super with an i5. This may or may not be better than your gear. I am not a computerman. I don't exactly know what is happening. Some sort of bottleneck thing with the cpu not diverting enough to the gpu. So please take caution such as monitoring your cpu and gpu loads and temps. Do a backup, I don't know, but this worked for me and I totally understand any frustration you may have had. I hope this works for you. Peace and love.
AlexMacBen
New Member
Hey so it just broke again so FML I guess.Hello everybody,
TLDR - NVIDIA control panel - 3d Settings - manage 3d settings - feature, power management mode - Adaptive.
I'd like to offer this solution as I have been struggling for months with this exact issue and I see that many others have been too. I have only tried a couple of streams since I changed this setting but they have been with games that had previously caused the problem. The freezes usually happens a couple of hours into stream and I have gone on longer now without the issue occurring again. If you change this setting and still have the preview freeze first of all, sorry, but maybe some other things I have tried are working in combination. Games were more likely to cause the freeze if they were in fullscreen mode, try windowed or borderless. Make sure you're not having conflicts with your game/obs resolution and downscaling. You need to be using NVENC h264 and not x264 (I haven't actually tested the difference but this seems to be the preferred way). I believe this is an encoding issue and not a VST problem as suggested. I have run my stream in safe mode (which disables VSTs) with problem games and got the freeze within 20 minutes. Another thing that you have probably already seen is disabling Hardware Accelerated Graphics Scaling or whatever it is in your Windows graphics settings and also Game Mode (I don't think Game Mode changed anything for me).
Here's a temporary band-aid if you get a freeze and need to go on a bit longer (but keep in mind it will eventually break too). You can enable Studio Mode and see another live preview of your stream. This can also freeze. A very last resort would be disable the preview until you need it and only turn it on when you absolutely need to see if your scene/changes/etc is live.
I am using an RTX 2060 super with an i5. This may or may not be better than your gear. I am not a computerman. I don't exactly know what is happening. Some sort of bottleneck thing with the cpu not diverting enough to the gpu. So please take caution such as monitoring your cpu and gpu loads and temps. Do a backup, I don't know, but this worked for me and I totally understand any frustration you may have had. I hope this works for you. Peace and love.
AlexMacBen
New Member
Enable Game Mode in Windows. I have done a few streams now with a variety of games and no preview freezing.Hello everybody,
TLDR - NVIDIA control panel - 3d Settings - manage 3d settings - feature, power management mode - Adaptive.
I'd like to offer this solution as I have been struggling for months with this exact issue and I see that many others have been too. I have only tried a couple of streams since I changed this setting but they have been with games that had previously caused the problem. The freezes usually happens a couple of hours into stream and I have gone on longer now without the issue occurring again. If you change this setting and still have the preview freeze first of all, sorry, but maybe some other things I have tried are working in combination. Games were more likely to cause the freeze if they were in fullscreen mode, try windowed or borderless. Make sure you're not having conflicts with your game/obs resolution and downscaling. You need to be using NVENC h264 and not x264 (I haven't actually tested the difference but this seems to be the preferred way). I believe this is an encoding issue and not a VST problem as suggested. I have run my stream in safe mode (which disables VSTs) with problem games and got the freeze within 20 minutes. Another thing that you have probably already seen is disabling Hardware Accelerated Graphics Scaling or whatever it is in your Windows graphics settings and also Game Mode (I don't think Game Mode changed anything for me).
Here's a temporary band-aid if you get a freeze and need to go on a bit longer (but keep in mind it will eventually break too). You can enable Studio Mode and see another live preview of your stream. This can also freeze. A very last resort would be disable the preview until you need it and only turn it on when you absolutely need to see if your scene/changes/etc is live.
I am using an RTX 2060 super with an i5. This may or may not be better than your gear. I am not a computerman. I don't exactly know what is happening. Some sort of bottleneck thing with the cpu not diverting enough to the gpu. So please take caution such as monitoring your cpu and gpu loads and temps. Do a backup, I don't know, but this worked for me and I totally understand any frustration you may have had. I hope this works for you. Peace and love.