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How do I stop my laptop from freezing when I stream a game?

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My problem is mostly on dealing with OBS and Minecraft.

I stream Minecraft using OBS and whenever the stream reaches 15 minutes or more, it starts to slowly freeze bit by bit, until it starts freezing for seconds, making Minecraft unplayable.

This is not a gaming question, but rather a software question, because changing the game settings did nothing at all, so I'm guessing it's somewhere in the laptop that's giving problems.

I own an ASUS VivoBook with a 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7, 8 GB RAM, using 64-bit Windows 10. There might be more reasons why my laptop keeps freezing.

How do I maintain my computer to stop "dying" from time to time? Do I have to fix my settings or should I change some of my specs?

Edit: A small plus with the issue. Getting rid of background apps help somewhat, but I can't get rid of 3 (OBS, Minecraft, Spotify) for obvious reasons. The game continues to be playable for a few more minutes before it goes back to freezing.

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Throttle due to heating? (2 comments)
Just as a test: does the time until it freezes change if you switch to another recording quality in `... (2 comments)
Throttle due to heating?
Quasímodo‭ wrote over 2 years ago

It's possible that your processor throttles as a safety measure due to hitting a given temperature. You could use a hardware monitor to verify if that is true. (I can't recommend one since I'm not a Windows user.) Turbo Boost is common nowadays but AFAIK it boils down to the same concept.

General Sebast1an‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Quasímodo‭ That's a possible occurrence, actually. The CPU starts having flow issues (I don't know what to call it, but it starts to cap half an hour into the streams), and it could result to heating, so maybe, just maybe, the processors are freezing the computer in an attempt to lessen the heating.

That's one theory though, and I don't think I can solve the issue now. Best thing I could do for now is wait for years until I can buy an actual gaming computer.