System Freezes and Audio Buzzes in Headphones When Recording Gameplay

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Silly Man

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My system freezes and the audio buzzes in my headphones when OBS is recording. When I try to press stop recording it just says "stopping recording" and I have to use task manager to stop it. It continues the freezing and buzzing a little while after I close it with either task manager or it complies. I have saved videos to this drive for a while now so this is new. I've changed the output to another drive and it stopped freezing and buzzing in my ears. Someone I know said it's the boot drive doing this but I'm not sure. I'm wondering if this is an issue with one of the drives or an OBS issue
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

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Do you have a hard disk drive (HDD, ie old school spinning platter disk drives) or newer SSD (flash) drives?
With a slightly optimized Windows 10, I can Record at 3X my streaming bitrate to a SATA SSD this is also my boot drive with no issue. Doing so with a HDD may or may not be viable... depends on lots of other factors (and your specific background disk I/O workload/pattern)

If a HDD, and its old, they can start to fail, so first thing to do is a backup, just in case. then run a disk test program
 
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