Blue iris constantly crashing

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Young grasshopper
Sep 25, 2017
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Hey guys,

been running blue iris for about 5 months basically trouble free except for about the last month. it has had consistent issues with crashing. For instance this morning I woke up to a computer with the screen resolution down to 1024x768 from 1920x1080, and the processor pegged at 100%. all the camera feeds also had no signal. It will crash in various ways, generally most or all the camera feeds will be gone and the processor pegged at 100%. when I close blue iris it will automatically restart in task manager ( although nothing will appear, no blue iris windows etc) and the processor usage will go back to 100% ( all blue iris using the processor). I will have to restart the machine to get blue iris to run properly again until its next crash ( seems to take a several hours for it to reoccur)


Im not overly experienced with this program or Ip cameras in general. I know the basics, and at this point I dont even know where to start except for re image the machine and start over.

In the blue iris log I have a lot of network retry's. My paranoid side thinks maybe I'm being hacked or something lol, but the ip cameras are on a different network from the internet so dont know if thats even possible.

any pointers greatly appreciated.


system:

i5 4670
8 gig ram
windows 10
2x network cards
120gb ssd, 4 tb hdd
 
$2 bet...it's your 2nd NIC card causing issues. For giggles, disable it via windows control panel or physically remove it from the slot. Fire up computer and see if Blue Iris program runs for more than several hours. Yes, you'll see no IP cams but this is more so of a test.
 
Holbs said:
$2 bet...it's your 2nd NIC card causing issues. For giggles, disable it via windows control panel or physically remove it from the slot. Fire up computer and see if Blue Iris program runs for more than several hours. Yes, you'll see no IP cams but this is more so of a test.
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Thanks, will do and report back.
 
It appears my Optiplex i7 Blue Iris computer was blessed by the IOI gods and have never experienced the memory leak issue. As Fenderman says, this could be the issue as well.
 
fenderman said:
See the wiki on memory leak
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I tried to install the version the wiki suggests but got an error code, although I think it did install as the installed driver version is dated oct 2017. I also disabled the graphics updates via the wiki..well see what happens.

Thanks for you help.
 
clean said:
I tried to install the version the wiki suggests but got an error code, although I think it did install as the installed driver version is dated oct 2017. I also disabled the graphics updates via the wiki..well see what happens.

Thanks for you help.
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This is because you have an oem version of windows installed. There are workarounds discussed in threads and online. If you decide to reinstall windows, do it clean with the MS media creation tool.
 
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tried the MS creation tool but kept getting errors there too, tried the youtube workarounds , didn't work. will use rufus and create usb bootable windows 10 from ISO file on microsoft site.

do you know if blue iris 5 will also potentially suffer from memory leak?
 
clean said:
@fenderman

tried the MS creation tool but kept getting errors there too, tried the youtube workarounds , didn't work. will use rufus and create usb bootable windows 10 from ISO file on microsoft site.

do you know if blue iris 5 will also potentially suffer from memory leak?
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Blue Iris does not suffer from a memory leak. The memory leaks were related to the Intel drivers.
 
+1 for burgler2112. Tried to find a download for 15.45.18.4664, but it either says "oops" or sends you to the download page for 15.45.27.5068.
Any ideas?
 
HP ProDesk 600 G3 SFF
Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40 GHz
8 GB Ram

At this point as soon as I open BI CPU pegs at 100% and I can't even get to settings to disable the service. I also saw something on the forum about deactivating BI before reinstalling windows. But I can't even do that, as the PC just freezes.
 
burgler2112 said:
HP ProDesk 600 G3 SFF
Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40 GHz
8 GB Ram

At this point as soon as I open BI CPU pegs at 100% and I can't even get to settings to disable the service. I also saw something on the forum about deactivating BI before reinstalling windows. But I can't even do that, as the PC just freezes.
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Can you try to reinstall windows with media tool? Do you have all the optimization settings found here:

Optimizing Blue Iris's CPU Usage

Blue Iris uses a lot of CPU time. In most Blue Iris installations, your CPU is the limiting factor which determines how many cameras you can have. As such, it is extremely important to optimize your configuration to ensure you can get the most out of your system while consuming the least...
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I had a similar high cpu issue and direct to disk was not enabled on all cams.
 
TL1096r said:
Can you try to reinstall windows with media tool? Do you have all the optimization settings found here:

Optimizing Blue Iris's CPU Usage

Blue Iris uses a lot of CPU time. In most Blue Iris installations, your CPU is the limiting factor which determines how many cameras you can have. As such, it is extremely important to optimize your configuration to ensure you can get the most out of your system while consuming the least...
ipcamtalk.com ipcamtalk.com

I had a similar high cpu issue and direct to disk was not enabled on all cams.
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I plan to do a clean install of W10 tomorrow using the media tool. But do I need to unlink my BI session first? Although, since BI goes to 100% as soon as it opens, this might prove difficult to do anyways.

As for optimizing BI cams, I've had direct-to-disc on all cams from day 1. That was one of Fenderman's recommendations that I made sure I did from the jump. I think my FPS might not be correct, and I'll address that after the clean install and resetting up of BI.
 
Actually, as a follow up question regarding doing the clean install. Once I do the clean install of W10, how do I ensure that I have the correct driver from that point? Won't windows just go and update to the most recent driver upon installation?
 
burgler2112 said:
Actually, as a follow up question regarding doing the clean install. Once I do the clean install of W10, how do I ensure that I have the correct driver from that point? Won't windows just go and update to the most recent driver upon installation?
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drivers will be listed - you can look what you have and remove/add after install. nothing can be done until you do the clean install. It should work.
 
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So did my clean install on Wednesday night. Last night installed BI5 and I thought everything was going great. Then I tried to add my QSee cameras and they wouldn't connect. Then I tried my Wyze cams via RTSP, and they wouldn't connect.
I seem to recall having to do something special a year ago when I first hooked up my QSee cams, but having trouble finding what I did back then. Unfortunately due to the issues I was having with my PC before reinstalling W10, I couldn't back up my BI4 settings.

I also noticed that with no cameras installed at all, my BI session was hovering around 58% CPU usage????
 
Follow up, I'm re-reading about the windows media tool installation, and I think I might have done it wrong. Going to redo it today and see what happens. Hopefully that will resolve the CPU usage issue. Although I'm still up the creek on the connection of the cameras...
 
burgler2112 said:
Follow up, I'm re-reading about the windows media tool installation, and I think I might have done it wrong. Going to redo it today and see what happens. Hopefully that will resolve the CPU usage issue. Although I'm still up the creek on the connection of the cameras...
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Any progress in resolving this issue?
 
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