3060 has gotten worse & worse, please help!

[Shayeno]

Hi!

So this is going to be a bit of a long one, all help would be amazing as it is seriously affecting my work.

Firstly, I have some decent specs, that should run 90% of games on High/Ultra.

CPU: Ryzen 9 5950x
GPU: RTX 3060 32GB
RAM: 32GB, 3200Mhz x4 Sticks.
MOBO: TUF Gaming x570-PLus
PSU: CORSAIR ALIMENTATIONS CORSAIR 601-850

I have a issue that has become worse and worse, I stream for a living!

Whenever I tab in to a game, my OBS completely locks up, my preview if perfectly fine and running. But where you see my audio levels, that completely freezes. My chat, will completely freeze, the messages will only load once I ALT + Tab out of the game. (Sorry for the bad explanation, but that is as best as I can explain it) It also happens with Discord, where it will completely lock up, becoming normal once I alt tab from my games.

I have tried, factory resetting, underclocking, overclocking, Full optimization. Cleaning the computer, virus scans. Reseating my GPU, resetting my motherboard.
Everything I have tried, to no evail.

If there is any screenshots or anything I can provide, please let me know. At this point, I am willing to try anything.

Thank you!!!

 

[eidairaman1]

What's your specific ram, your info is too generic.

A 3060 is an entry level card that will not run ultra/high, you need a RX6800 or 3080 series at the least to do that.

 

[Shayeno]

I'm sorry, I can try be more specific.

I run Corsair Vengeance 8GB x 4 at 3200MHz.

Should of been more in detail, Dead By Daylight, FiveM, Valheim, Warframe. All cause my OBS to completely lock up, when and when not streaming, also happens to Discord too.

Is there anything else I can provide that would help?

 

[Macro Device]

A 3060 is an entry level card that will not run ultra/high

It will, unless it's some really taxing AAA title from 2022+. The OP should never have experienced such issues because of their GPU performance, it's something utterly wrong happened.

@Shayeno

1. Have you reinstalled your OS?
2. Have you tried one RAM stick configurations?
3. Have you run specific stress tests?
4. Have you got components proven to work that you can slot into this PC to see if anything changes?
5. Have you completely uninstalled your OBS with all your settings so you could have a fresh build?

 

[Princess Garnet]

It sounds like the graphics card/drivers isn't liking the background stuff when a 3D application is going.

I wouldn't have much to suggest, unfortunately, but I'd probably try reinstalling the drivers (and perhaps multiple times using slightly older drivers). The only other thing I'd think of is disabling hardware acceleration in stuff like Chrome, Discord, etc. You shouldn't have to do that in my mind because a GPU and its drivers should be able to handle doing this, but... sometimes it seems they don't like to, and if it brings improved results, it might be better than nothing.

 

[eidairaman1]

Ugh, vengeance ram...

 

[natr0n]

Need a 2nd monitor perhaps so you dont have to alt tab anything

 

[Shayeno]

It will, unless it's some really taxing AAA title from 2022+. The OP should never have experienced such issues because of their GPU performance, it's something utterly wrong happened.

@Shayeno

1. Have you reinstalled your OS?
2. Have you tried one RAM stick configurations?
3. Have you run specific stress tests?
4. Have you got components proven to work that you can slot into this PC to see if anything changes?
5. Have you completely uninstalled your OBS with all your settings so you could have a fresh build?

I have re-installed my OS a few different times, never seemed to fix it.
I have tried every ram stick individually too.
I have ran, CPU stress tests, Memtests for the ram. and GPU benchmarks/tests too. All temps seems normal and I never recieve any kind of errors or issues.
Sadly, I don't have any spare components to tests
Went back and tried different OBS versions, but it always results in the same problems.

 

[Shayeno]

It sounds like the graphics card/drivers isn't liking the background stuff when a 3D application is going.

I wouldn't have much to suggest, unfortunately, but I'd probably try reinstalling the drivers (and perhaps multiple times using slightly older drivers). The only other thing I'd think of is disabling hardware acceleration in stuff like Chrome, Discord, etc. You shouldn't have to do that in my mind because a GPU and its drivers should be able to handle doing this, but... sometimes it seems they don't like to, and if it brings improved results, it might be better than nothing.

I've tried to roll back my drivers to older versions too, but it never seemed to fix any of the issues I'm having.

I can try to disable hardware acceleration on all my other applications and see if anything improves

 

[Shayeno]

Need a 2nd monitor perhaps so you dont have to alt tab anything

I have 3 monitors xD

 

[Shayeno]

Unsure if this helps, but this is with FiveM open, steady at 90+FPS with OBS also open

 

[Shayeno]

Also, GPU in Task Manager, with game & OBS open

 

[Macro Device]

A real mystery. I'm unlikely to make sense of it but I'll try.

 

[Princess Garnet]

Along with trying to disable hardware acceleration in other applications, what if you try using one monitor?

Obviously, this isn't a preferable solution going forward as you no doubt want to use all three, but for troubleshooting purposes, I'm wondering if the multiple displays is a factor.

 

[Shayeno]

Along with trying to disable hardware acceleration in other applications, what if you try using one monitor?

Obviously, this isn't a preferable solution going forward as you no doubt want to use all three, but for troubleshooting purposes, I'm wondering if the multiple displays is a factor.

I've just went ahead and tried this, still the same result.

Do you think it could be a bottleneck somehow?

 

[Wasteland]

1. Have you reinstalled your OS?
2. Have you tried one RAM stick configurations?
3. Have you run specific stress tests?
4. Have you got components proven to work that you can slot into this PC to see if anything changes?
5. Have you completely uninstalled your OBS with all your settings so you could have a fresh build?

This is an excellent checklist. I'll add some followup:

- When did the problem start happening? Do you remember any software updates around the same time?
- I assume you're not overclocking anything, but it's worth asking just to be sure.
- Were you overclocking previously? The OP seems to imply that you were.
- What games are you playing? Have you tried something less demanding (even a 2d game) under similar circumstances?
- Do you see any symptoms when OBS isn't running? How bout when Discord isn't running?
- What kind of encoding settings are you using in OBS?
- Are there any errors in Event Viewer when the symptoms occur?

And definitely try with just one monitor. It's a shame you don't have any spare components to rule out hardware issues, but this sounds more like a software problem. You appear to have ruled out memory problems, and the GPU evidently works under stress. Likewise the PSU probably works ok. How's your storage? You might check for errors there. Then of course there are the typical Windows scan-and-repair commands:

chkdsk c: /f /r

sfc /scannow

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

How did you test the memory, by the way?

 

[natr0n]

I have 3 monitors xD

drag your programs to monitors. I never alt tab. You have a compulsion to alt tabbing and fyi games dont like that they usually crash.

You have to run everything in windowed mode.

 

[chrcoluk]

As for tips, try to not use exclusive full screen mode if you alt tabbing, run obss as admin, bump its priority, if you have loads of cores, use affinity to give games and obss their own isolated cores.