Bug Report OBS steals focus on crash

[danj2k]

I was streaming my Season 4 Overwatch competitive placements earlier today when I had OBS crash just before the 4 hour mark. When it crashed, it stole focus and alt-tabbed me out of the game.

I think that if it crashes, OBS should not steal focus. I guess that then raises the issue of how to let the user know that OBS has crashed though.

 

[Harold]

Looks like your nvidia drivers crashed.

 

[Sapiens]

I'm pretty sure that's normal Windows behavior, not something OBS-specific.

 

[danj2k]

Looks like your nvidia drivers crashed.

Yeah, once I found the crash log I saw it was an nvidia file that crashed. I've updated my drivers now, hopefully that will fix it?

The crash dialog was not the normal Windows one though, it was an OBS one asking me if I wanted to save a log file. And it's definitely possible for an application to bring up a dialog in a non-focus-stealing manner.

I also noticed that OBS Studio had a message in the status bar saying Encoder overloaded, but I already selected to use NVENC hardware encoding, I'm not sure what I can do to make it less overloaded?

Here's the regular log file from that session.

 

[Sapiens]

Try using the recording quality presets instead of manually configuring the encoder. You should also try enabling vsync or a frame rate limiter in the game you're capturing.