Question / Help Vram issues and crashes

[n0l4n666]

Hello everybody.

I stream on Twitch and in the past months I've been experiencing several crashes often accompanied by blue screen errors.

What happen is: sometimes a game crashes and closes, sometimes streamlabs and/or chrome do as well, sometimes the whole screens go black and I need to restart the pc, ths happens only when I'm using obs and while streaming, but I can't seem to pinpoint exactly the circumstances. Sometimes I go weeks without any issue, sometimes it happens several times a day. Again, only when streaming. Doesn't matter if it's an heavy, recent game or if I'm emulating a 30 ys old one. This kind of issue has happened in both cases.

In all of these cases the error message indicates lack of vram.

Here are my specs:

Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz 34 °C
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 933MHz (9-10-9-27)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P8P67 PRO (LGA1155) 30 °C
Graphics
Q3279WG5B (2560x1440@59Hz)
VW225 (1680x1050@59Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (Gigabyte) 29 °C
Storage
232GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB (SATA (SSD)) 32 °C
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 (SATA ) 29 °C
Audio
VB-Audio VoiceMeeter VAIO

I'm attaching the OBS log of my latest session:

 

[carlmmii]

Every instance of Render Delay that you apply adds requirements to store that source in VRAM for as many frames as necessary to achieve the delayed timing.

You have a LOT.

Find a way to minimize how many you use, or at least reduce how long the render delay is.

 

[n0l4n666]

Thank you, I'll look into that.

 

[Narcogen]

BSOD errors are hardware or driver problems, not application issues. You may be revealing a problem with the way you use the program, but a user application space program in Windows 10 I don't think can cause a blue screen by itself.

 

[n0l4n666]

@Narcogen I agree with you. However, as a matter of fact, since I've started using the new nvidia codec instead of the old ones, I've had no vram issues.