Bug Report SOLVED Browsing files via OBS Studio is choppy/lag

[Tessercat]

Hello! I have a weird problem on one of my machines. Whenever I browse my file structure--let's say when I'm searching for an image to use as an image source--my entire computer lags and everything becomes choppy. OBS Studio is the only program on this machine that causes this behavior. The weird part is, I have OBS Studio with identical settings on an older machine and this problem does not occur.

This occurs with any sort of file browsing, including searching for a font to use in text sources. It causes my stream, game, and literally anything else I'm running, to become choppy. Weirder still is my CPU usage only jumps from ~5% to ~20%. This occurs even when OBS Studio is the only thing I have running.

The lag does not cause anything to crash, however, so there is no log file. The lag ceases, that is everything returns to normal, as soon as I close the properties window for whatever source I was messing with.

Regular browsing, that is through Windows Explorer, is fine. I can also browse fine through, say, Photoshop.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open OBS Studio 32 (or 64!)
2. Create a blank scene
3. Add an image source to the scene
4. Double-click that image source to open its properties
5. Lag begins here, but is not terrible
6. Click on "browse" to find an image file
7. File browser window opens, lag ensues
8. Close this window
9. Close the properties window
10. Everything back to normal

I'm running Windows 10, and 32 bit OBS Studio version 0.15.4. Attached is my DxDiag so you can see what kind of hardware I'm running.

Any ideas?

 

[Tessercat]

Bump. No one has any ideas?

 

[ET-Danny]

I also have this problem, but I haven't found what is causing the lag either. I have a high end computer as well.

 

[EBrito]

0.15.4 is too old version

Update to last version and try again.

 

[Talon]

Same problem commenting for info when it comes

I have also noticed that it will run perfectly fine for the first 30 seconds after start up and then it will start to lag.
I assume it is some program interfering with it that has a latter start time but I can't find out what program it is.

 

[Talon]

My computer setup has a ROG maximus VIII motherboard, I have found that the sonic studio 2 auto startup creates lag in obs and also when loading SS2 manually it creates the lag as well. by disabling this in startup or uninstalling it fully I have fixed, what sounds to be our problem. if you have this program installed then your problem is fixed otherwise I have no idea what is causing your problem.

 

[Tessercat]

Talon, thanks! I actually just uninstalled it last night as it was seriously messing up my audio drivers. I haven't tried to use OBS though. I'll try tonight!

As for the version, I updated over the weekend and was still having the same problem. I'll report back as soon as I test.

Side note; In all of my PC days (which are many), no other component or driver has caused as many seemingly unrelated issues as audio drivers have. What's up with that?

 

[Tessercat]

Ok, sorry this took a second. Just checked version 18.0.1 and confirmed that there is no more lag. I'm not certain if this is due to the new updates, or because I uninstalled Sonic Suite, but I'm happy it's gone!

Cheers all!

-Tessecat