Question / Help RECenter 3 screen keeps freezes (no crash though) when OBS is open!

[darkpowrjd]

So my dilemma is something that's only begun recently:I recently got a Live Gamer HD2, I have been using RECenter 3 (Avermedia's capture card program) as a sort of "second screen" to be able to play my games to my PC, and then when I want to stream, I would use OBS and use Window Capture on RECenter 3. Worked until recently, though.

What has been happening is that the RECenter 3 video screen (where the game is actually being played on) suddenly "freezes", where it refuses to move any more frames. The program works fine, and I can change the mode to Media Share/Settings, and change all of the options. There's no crash happening, and when I change things back to "Capture/Stream", everything returns to normal and I see the moving picture again...until the next time it does the same thing, which seems to be happening every 5-10 minutes, maybe more frequently than that. It seems to always happen when OBS is open. I'm not using the "Video Capture Device" way to bring the video into OBS (I know you can't use that in two programs at the same time), and I would just use OBS without RECenter3, but the issue of my overlays getting in the way of seeing what I'm doing becomes an issue.

Anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

 

[darkpowrjd]

Anyone? I've been trying EVERYTHING to get this to run right. Uninstalling, reinstalling, and OBS and RECentral seems unwilling to play nice with each other regardless of what I do!

 

[Ohem]

Maybe this could help https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/twitch-streamers-tool-for-single-monitor-streamers.364/

But why not skip the overlays? Or read the chat directly from another monitor or device?

 

[Ohem]

Wait, now I get what you meant.

Right-click on the video capture (not on any of the overlays) > Fullscreen Projector (Source) > Choose your monitor.

The "Source" shows only the media you right-clicked on instead of showing the whole preview, you might get better image quality if you use video capture instead of window preview - it only displays the window's resolution as it appears/pops up.

Edit:

To emphasize, right-click through the list below the preview.

 

[darkpowrjd]

This has seemed to work for the most part, but I'm still experiencing freezes every once in a while to where I have to restart OBS. Not AS often as the Avermedia RECentral program, but I can't be streaming and hoping that I have to do something awkward when I experience this. Also, the Projector I would LIKE to retain 60 FPS and be able to listen to just the audio of the game (not the entire stream) through my headphones.

As I heard the OBS LGHD2 thing is something that can occur in OBS (as I've read a few people having the same issue, but not sure if it's isolated to just OBS for me), and the backdoor way so putting the sound from the capture card as Desktop Audio to listen to the game sound. Not sure what to do about the 60 FPS thing.

I am using the 64 bit version of OBS, if that helps any.

 

[Ohem]

The source projector works fine, I use Avermedia U3 and captures 60fps in OBS. Have you checked video settings in OBS? Tried downgrading the drivers? https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/...application_and_driver_v1.3.0.46_20130617.exe

Bit confused by the audio issue, you're saying there's no audio in OBS preview and turn to Twitch to listen?

I assume you use video capture and not window capture.