OBS Studio freezing completely, mid-stream.

[Huncho17]

I usually have my Preview disabled but every so often, I enable it just so I can see if everything is goin' smooth.

As of yesterday, when I would enable my webcam (and have my preview visible) - my OBS would lock up COMPLETELY and my stream would freeze. If I went to 'stop broadcast', it would get stuck on "Stopping broadcast" until it gave me an unresponsive pop-up.

Here are my logs.

The first two are times that it froze - the last one was my final stream of the night that had *no* freezing or anything what-so ever.

I'm also on version 30.2.3, if that matters.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

general observations
- Preview Window (Studio Mode) requires 2X the rendering workload
- You have LOTS of filters and effects (CPU impactful)... and a mismatch from Screen refresh rate on monitor 1 (144Hz) vs screen capture rate of 60fps [an uneven multiple]

However,
your log is full of the PoS streamelements plugin puking all over the place... that can't be helping (whether root cause or not, I don't know). You'd need to work with streamelements to see about cleaning up all those errors