PC "Soft Locks" when Recording with OBS

KamikaZeCDN

New Member
I've been having an issue lately that isn't totally consistent in that it doesn't happen every single time, however, it's happening enough that it's clearly not a random hiccup either.

Basically while I'm actively playing and recording Project Zomboid footage, sometimes my pc kinda "soft locks" on me killing my keyboard, mouse, mic and even clearly reboots my cooling system since I can see all the lighting turn off then back on again. It does eventually come back but it's a good 10 seconds of nothing whenever it does it. My PC doesn't actually fully crash either or blue screen, the game itself will still be running I just have no controls. OBS will also stay open and recording to some extent, I don't think it's fully capturing but it visually shows it's still recording and I can safely stop it with my StreamDeck and the footage is fine. It also doesn't leave anything in the Event Viewer logs either making tracking down the issue a pain. Oh and my AIO is Corsair brand so I have the iCUE software (which is terribly buggy) which is probably worth noting.

Not sure if it's worth listing all my PC specs or what but I can if requested. Right now I assume its some sort of software level conflict between OBS and iCUE? I'm not entirely sure how relevant Project Zomboid is since I can play it without recording and it never happens. I also haven't recently recorded footage for any other games either to make that sort of judgement. But like I said, it doesn't happen every time either. I have easily recorded over an hour of footage without a hitch and then other times it'll freeze up like this after 5, 10 even 20 minutes.

I'll also be posting this on related Corsair/iCUE forums (maybe general windows ones as well) but just wanted to see if others had encountered anything like this before?
 

Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
USB keyboard, mouse, and mic? maybe an overloaded USB Root Hub? but if yes, that would impact streamdeck as well, right?
maybe on different USB chips (one to CPU; one to motherboard?)
Maybe a CPU overload and some software/setting (OS or ??) impacting those devices?

This sounds like an OS issue, which you happen to see with OBS Studio (which taxes a PC in a way most other things won't)
 

KamikaZeCDN

New Member
USB keyboard, mouse, and mic? maybe an overloaded USB Root Hub? but if yes, that would impact streamdeck as well, right?
maybe on different USB chips (one to CPU; one to motherboard?)
Maybe a CPU overload and some software/setting (OS or ??) impacting those devices?

This sounds like an OS issue, which you happen to see with OBS Studio (which taxes a PC in a way most other things won't)
I thought of the USB issue was well since they are all USB connections but yeah the streamdeck continuing to work was certainly a bit of an issue with that theory, though not impossible.

I will admit I was worried it could be pointing to an OS issue but I was really confused why there wouldn't be anything in the Event Viewer. But I did get force updated to Windows 11 24H2 back in December and ever since then I have noticed general issues I hadn't before and it seems a lot of people have problems with it.

I could try tweaking some settings in OBS but I haven't changed anything in ages in that regard so it would be strange. I rarely see too much usage on my CPU (13700k) while OBS is running. But then again that circles me back to the 24H2 update...certainly problematic. I may need to look into how I can correct that...if at all possible. Or at least a better way of logging what's happening.
 

KamikaZeCDN

New Member
I forgot i was going to list specs on the off chance others see this and have other ideas. Though I do suspect it may be an OS issue after Lawrence_SoCal's response.

i7-13700k
RTX 4070 ti
32GB Corsair Ven. DDR5-6400
MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk Wifi
Samsung 990 Pro 1TB (Boot)
Corsair MP510 960GB + Crucial MX500 1TB (additional)
SeaSonic Vertex GX-1200
 

Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
Yea, Win24H2... ongoing Clusterf&^$... typical Microsoft every other desktop OS release for last 25+yrs... complete half-baked PoS... so not looking forward to migrating off Windows 10, due to specific apps Linux (which has its own issues) not being practical for a number of my systems

Though ... even prior OSes like ME, Vista, 8, etc... I don't recall being this much of an ongoing mess... like throwing beta code out and letting public be testers... atrocious development and QA processes
 
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