Eliot Hochberg
New Member
TL:DR Here are my questions, background to follow them:
1) What does OBS 2 install?
2) Does anything OBS 2 installs have anything to do with core system video or file systems that could potentially cause instability in other software?
3) How does one uninstall OBS 2, and do I also need to uninstall OBS 1? Both versions appear to access the same preferences and scenes.
Here's the background:
A few weeks ago, I installed OBS 2. Since then, I've had no end of crashing, including updating to the newest version.
Prior to OBS 2, on my iMac Pro with 128GB RAM, I was able to do the following simultaneously:
- Run OBS 1
- Run Chrome with several hundred windows and tabs open
- Run other intensive software - Adobe Premiere Pro exporting, plus an MP4 Encoder (Shutter)
I could run this all without issue at the same time, sometimes exporting from Premiere AND also encoding a different video file in Shutter, with Chrome running and OBS 1. I might use up to 80GB of RAM with all of this, and the only problem I ever had was that Chrome still has its' stupid memory leak, so I had to periodically quit out of Chrome to clear that issue. Otherwise, dead stable.
I installed OBS 2, mostly to get the feature of being able to split audio output so that I could have music on my live streams, but so that Twitch VOD would not have the music as, even though it's rights cleared, it would still sometimes cause muting on VODs because of Twitch's dumb content ID system.
Then, chaos.
First, if I was running Chrome along with OBS 2, after about 90 min-2 hours in, the system would freeze, forcing a restart. So then I would use a browser with fewer windows open, Opera, and it seems not to crash. Note that Activity Monitor tells me I have plenty of RAM and processor available still even with Chrome running, no indication as to what the issue might be. Then, with that config, I tried exporting from Premiere in the background, or encoding in the background, and those both seem to lead to a crash, again about 90 min-2 hours into a stream.
After that, I had an issue with Zoom and running Chrome (OBS 2 not running) with a similar kind of crash. Then I had an issue with Premiere where one file, which had been open and exporting during a crash (when I finally determined that doing that was bad) where it gave a weird error thinking a drive was full when it wasn't. This is a Premiere issue, and means that file was now corrupted, likely due to that crash. But now, Premiere is unstable, and crashes after only a few minutes. I think I've isolated that issue, but I need to remove OBS 2 from the debugging equation.
I need to get back to a stable setup. I can't imagine that OBS 2 would be the culprit, but AFAIK I didn't install or update anything around that time or since then. I don't add a lot of software to my system to avoid this very problem.
1) What does OBS 2 install?
2) Does anything OBS 2 installs have anything to do with core system video or file systems that could potentially cause instability in other software?
3) How does one uninstall OBS 2, and do I also need to uninstall OBS 1? Both versions appear to access the same preferences and scenes.
Here's the background:
A few weeks ago, I installed OBS 2. Since then, I've had no end of crashing, including updating to the newest version.
Prior to OBS 2, on my iMac Pro with 128GB RAM, I was able to do the following simultaneously:
- Run OBS 1
- Run Chrome with several hundred windows and tabs open
- Run other intensive software - Adobe Premiere Pro exporting, plus an MP4 Encoder (Shutter)
I could run this all without issue at the same time, sometimes exporting from Premiere AND also encoding a different video file in Shutter, with Chrome running and OBS 1. I might use up to 80GB of RAM with all of this, and the only problem I ever had was that Chrome still has its' stupid memory leak, so I had to periodically quit out of Chrome to clear that issue. Otherwise, dead stable.
I installed OBS 2, mostly to get the feature of being able to split audio output so that I could have music on my live streams, but so that Twitch VOD would not have the music as, even though it's rights cleared, it would still sometimes cause muting on VODs because of Twitch's dumb content ID system.
Then, chaos.
First, if I was running Chrome along with OBS 2, after about 90 min-2 hours in, the system would freeze, forcing a restart. So then I would use a browser with fewer windows open, Opera, and it seems not to crash. Note that Activity Monitor tells me I have plenty of RAM and processor available still even with Chrome running, no indication as to what the issue might be. Then, with that config, I tried exporting from Premiere in the background, or encoding in the background, and those both seem to lead to a crash, again about 90 min-2 hours into a stream.
After that, I had an issue with Zoom and running Chrome (OBS 2 not running) with a similar kind of crash. Then I had an issue with Premiere where one file, which had been open and exporting during a crash (when I finally determined that doing that was bad) where it gave a weird error thinking a drive was full when it wasn't. This is a Premiere issue, and means that file was now corrupted, likely due to that crash. But now, Premiere is unstable, and crashes after only a few minutes. I think I've isolated that issue, but I need to remove OBS 2 from the debugging equation.
I need to get back to a stable setup. I can't imagine that OBS 2 would be the culprit, but AFAIK I didn't install or update anything around that time or since then. I don't add a lot of software to my system to avoid this very problem.