SKYPE FREEZING UP WHYILE LOADING UPGRADE
SKYPE FREEZING UP WHYILE LOADING WINDOWS

Anything else to try? A complete wipe and reinstall of everything might fix it but is pretty drastic. Nothing is happening when the spike takes place, the machine is not being touched and hasn't been for a while. It happens on the system with nothing but OBS, and CPU load at a more reasonable number and nothing ever approaching 100% - so I doubt a faster CPU would solve the problem. My first intuition would be something like a garbage collect, but it would not be that simple. Something about this hiccup causes the user of the virtualcam to go into a short CPU frenzy. In this mode, the CPU spike is visible but much less pronounced. But it happens just the same when OBS is sitting there running alone on the machine, with a very simple scene, and either not recording or recording to video. I attach a CPU graph of when it happens - this is feeding into Zoom. I have tried deleting as many other extraneous programs from the machine as I can and making sure no daemons are running. (The system is all SSD.) However, roughly at the same time as the troubles, it takes a few seconds for the window to display in that situation. I will note that 'System' is using about 20% of CPU, OBS is also using about 15% (plus GPU) and Zoom another 20% in stable operation.ДЄnother possible clue: Before thsi problem happened, OBS would start up very quickly when I invoked it, like most programs do. Yes, it seems as though something else installed later might be to blame, and I may eventually try to pull everything out, but there is nothing apparent running or using CPU.

SKYPE FREEZING UP WHYILE LOADING UPGRADE

I may do the hardware upgrade anyway, but otherwise this system was working as my Zoom/OBS studio just fine for several weeks, running for hours with no hiccup. Tweaking streaming settings should not affect anything as I am not streaming. (My normal scenes have video playing and chromakey on a camera so they do need resources.) OBS is making good use of the GPU as shown in task manager, but nowhere close to overloading it (the GPU is much more recent.) I've tried using very simple scenes, it still happens. I've tried reducing the size of the canvas to 1280x720 - no luck. I tried downgrading to 25.0.4, since the problem started happening roughly around the time of 25.0.8, but no joy. And I have killed everything else that shows any CPU usage like the browser and any daemons. No, a reboot doesn't fix it, at least not any more. I could fork out for fresh hardware, but I fear that would not actually find the root of the problem. it happens less often if the machine is less loaded) and then the CPU spikes don't hit 100%, but the hiccup still happens. It is affected by how much spare CPU there is (ie. So yes, it happens with just OBS, so the problem is there and probably not in Zoom or OBS-virtualcam, they just make it more visible.

SKYPE FREEZING UP WHYILE LOADING WINDOWS

Even more odd, Windows task manager reports that it is Zoom, not OBS that is using more CPU, and it reports the same for Skype or Hangout or other programs using the virtualcam.Д®xcept if you kill zoom, it still happens, in fact even if you kill the virtualcam it still happens (though not as much) with it now reporting that OBS has had the spike in CPU usage.

The down-up-back looks a bit like a heartbeat on an ECG. Yes, this machine is an old quad-core i5, and a bit underpowered, but it was working fine for quite some time without hiccups.

Audio (which is going through OBS as well, and out the monitor channel to a virtual audio cable) does not hiccup but video does.Дuring these hiccups, CPU usage will briefly drop, then spike up, to 80% all the way to 100%. Then it started getting into a mode where every 30 to 60 seconds, the video will freeze in the OBS screen, and Zoom will switch to gray screen (no camera.) Then zoom will come back but with frozen jerky video for a second or two and finally it will sync up. I set up OBS to use via OBS-virtualcam with zoom and other tools, and it was working fine for several weeks. Most of the freezing problems I've seen have related to streaming.

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