OBS wizards/streamers, I'm having trouble and could use a hand
my OBS keeps randomly freezing and I'm not sure why (video attached). Tried reinstalling multiple times, removing all plugins, changing video encoder, nothing seems to be working. assistance would be much appreciated!

April 10, 2026 - 18:08 UTC

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I'm not an expert. But I had this happen when I was running out of Vram (graphics card ram)
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Uh oh. This kept inexplicably happening to me just today on OBS. It might be a coincidence, but it's possible OBS itself is the problem.
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fixed, I just reinstalled OBS then one by one reinstalled my plugins instead of importing them from a backup folder. Not sure why that fixed it, but it did ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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We love it when weird, simple things resolve the issue
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computers are literally just magic idk what to say (has a degree)
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I usually see that happen with encoding errors but for some mystical reason, OBS just fixes itself if you uninstall reinstall its so wild. Like it has old parts that wear out or something but thats my go to attempt.

Happy its done!
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Probably one of the plugins was corrupt, so reinstalling sidesteps that problem.
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Based!
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my OBS does this a lot too, my workaround is usually deleting all plugin files and temporarily making them sit in my Recycling bin before attempting to reopen OBS, letting it fail opening, and then restoring the plugin files and launching it again. Unironically works every time!
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The machine spirit wanted a fresh install of all your plugins. Omnissiah be praised
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OBS Just be like that sometimes.
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There's a reason lots of people don't update OBS
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Good to know that OBS uses the same methodology as fixing Elder Scrolls: Oblivion mods
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OBS: On Bullshit Sometimes (always)

I'm glad you got it fixed!!!!!!
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It's not supposed to be done, but some plugins cache settings or other information inside their folders, which means backups can still have whatever's causing the crash inside.
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File corruption/compatibility. It's a rarity.
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do you use source profiler plugin? that kinda helped me determine if there was any chance that a scene might have been overloaded and taking up a lot of processing power, even while inactive and i ended up breaking down a few scenes into more nested components. some stuff was bottlenecking me
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its also what i do in place of using folders (groups) in my sources since that can also run into a pretty nasty issue with overlapping IDs and ruin things

not to say that would be a source of this, but id check it off the list too in terms of any potential optimizing that might need to take place
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not an obs wizard, but my Sony Vegas 19 was just NOT working today, it wouldn't render a video at all until i switched OFF of the Nvidia based encoding

a quick reddit search showed people talking about this 3+ months ago but it only started for me TODAY

nvidia drivers may be an issue there :(
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i think you can roll them back??? somehow????? but i don't know how to do that, i just know that dodging NVENC fixed Vegas for me
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i had a very similar issue happen with my entire PC about two weeks ago, and it also affected OBS

I ended up having to do a clean uninstall of my video card drivers using DDU, then reinstalling, and it fixed it

Other than that use nvidia software to cap vtubestudio's FPS to 60 to save performance
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It doesn't seem like it's an OBS issue because the recording is clean- if it was an OBS issue the recording would have artifacting, but it doesn't. OBS is just capturing what your PC is showing you, so there's a performance issue elsewhere on your system
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Revert to version 30.2.3 and test that, you can find this version on Github from Previous OBS versions.

That should fix your freezing issue until the newest version has fixed these issues.
Had the same problem with my bird avatar for my V-Tubing.
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that's quite a bit far back, but I'll try it
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Dude my obs has been getting worse, I know it's my laptop but the updates are being an ass D:
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Its likely a vram problem like some commentors have said. You can try reducing the quality of your vtuber source or its resolution, or limit its FPS if you aren't already doing so.
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model and fps seem to not be the issue, reducing fps and removing model doesn't seem to stop the freezing :/
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Check your VRAM usage + if this only happened after an update, try to roll back the OBS update? I figure you probably already tried this but why not lol
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As others are suggesting, I'd look into your graphics drivers. Nvidia specifically has been putting out some really dubious stuff recently.

Otherwise I'd recommend browsing the issues on the OBS repo to see if you can find something that looks like your problem, and opening a new issue if you can't
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Issues: github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues
New issue template: github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/new?template=bug_report.yaml
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