Computer freezes when capturing desktop for Let's Play videos

Dan Dread

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Windows 8.1 64 bit pro edition

16 gb of ram

GTX 980 TI

4790k @ 4.0 GHz

What I want to do is record gameplay footage as well as my webcam.

Here's what I've tried, and how it's failed:


Shadow play- I have it set to manual, press 7 to start recording. Pressing 7 does nothing, there's no indication that any recording has started, no file is created.


Camtasia and Windows movie maker- they record the webcam but games just show up as black screens


Open Broadcaster- This one seems great at first, but as soon as I press start recording or preview stream, it freezes everything up. I can't click stop recording, I can't click on anything on Open Broadcaster. I can't even click on anything on any other windows I had open, like Steam or Chrome. I have to control alt delete to get out of it.

XSplit- Same thing, can't click on anything as soon as a preview shows up with my desktop's footage.


Fraps- Well, I didn't really try this one, don't really want to pay $37 for it when I have all these other options, even though they aren't working.

Any advice?


Here's a video of the error:

https://youtu.be/fOo9EUQaxJQ
 
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I would also highly suggest updating your drivers (or rolling back if you have the newest), since Nvidia loves to fiddle with their NVENCODE (that all those programs use at some level) api far too much. Sure it gives you new features like 16bit processing and 10bit output, but it also causes programs that use that engine to sometimes crash and take the whole driver stack with them.

mamasan2000

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See if you find anything of interest here
https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/3ha05c/freezing_computer_obs_windows_10/
It sounds weird to me. Have you tried without webcam? Could that conflict with something?
Xsplit and OBS work fine for me but I'm also using AMD gfx and cpu. Have you tried older Nvidia drivers?

Btw, I'm not a streamer, just like to record my gameplay, without webcam.
 
I would also highly suggest updating your drivers (or rolling back if you have the newest), since Nvidia loves to fiddle with their NVENCODE (that all those programs use at some level) api far too much. Sure it gives you new features like 16bit processing and 10bit output, but it also causes programs that use that engine to sometimes crash and take the whole driver stack with them.
 
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