Game crashes when streaming on discord

[MilaKunai]

Need I say more? I need help if anyone of you guys have solved it I got the game so I can play and have my friends watch on Discord but every time I do so after the lady with the red hair says about the curse the game crashes does anyone know how to fix it I have nothing in the background I believe only Discord and the game are opened Please help asap TwT

[Fil Good Inc]

While playing and streaming check your Task Manager's Performance Tab for 100% utilisation in either CPU or Memory Usage. If one does read close to 100% you have the answer to your problem, lack of performance to stream and play at the same time.

[Tokyo Banana (Gas)]

Yeah this is a problem with the game. Happened to me and a friend when we both tried streaming it.

[DJ SorUwU]

Originally posted by Fil Good Inc:

While playing and streaming check your Task Manager's Performance Tab for 100% utilisation in either CPU or Memory Usage. If one does read close to 100% you have the answer to your problem, lack of performance to stream and play at the same time.

Pretty sure the game doesn't need 12 threads and 16gb of Ram to run and be streamed at 720p60 at the same time, genius. Yet, I can't get the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing to run while stream. If lack of performance to run this Playstation 3 era game was really the issue, I'd never have been able to stream No Man's Sky much less even run the game.

[Mr. Valuable]

This is still an issue.

[DJ SorUwU]

Originally posted by MrValuable:

This is still an issue.

This has got to be deliberate honestly. Something tells me that Atlus told the porting devs to stop streaming of this at all costs (despite the gameplay, the selling point is the plot after all), so the devs cooked up something that freezes or quits the game after the start of a cutscene or in case streaming is enabled mid cutscene, when a level starts.

What makes me say that? Well, remember what happened when you tried to stream Persona 5 on the PS4? The feed would cut for the game while certain parts were played/watched, but would come back after they were done.

Also, although by accident, the first weeks from the release of Destiny 2 were marked by the game detecting most hooks like MSI Afterburner or OBS as "Cheat Devices"

Atlus should go back on this, especially considering this does very little to deter a streamer that uses a capture card.

[mw3funnymoments]

Is this still an issue? wow, I have tried streaming this game on Discord for my friends to watch but it just will not load. I have already tried looking for solutions to bypass this, but even streaming your screen will make it crash or not load too.

[nxysdu]

Originally posted by sw33tfl3sh:

Is this still an issue? wow, I have tried streaming this game on Discord for my friends to watch but it just will not load. I have already tried looking for solutions to bypass this, but even streaming your screen will make it crash or not load too.

yeah same it's an issue for me too. more specifically, it will crash whenever you complete a level (right after the cutscene vincent has while opening the gate)

[DJ SorUwU]

Originally posted by nxysdu:

Originally posted by sw33tfl3sh:

Is this still an issue? wow, I have tried streaming this game on Discord for my friends to watch but it just will not load. I have already tried looking for solutions to bypass this, but even streaming your screen will make it crash or not load too.

yeah same it's an issue for me too. more specifically, it will crash whenever you complete a level (right after the cutscene vincent has while opening the gate)

You guys, give up, this is deliberate, not a bug. It's an extremely convenient "issue" Atlus got for people to not give away the plot to people who haven't bought the game yet.

[Maximum Dandy]

Originally posted by DJ SorUwU:

Originally posted by nxysdu:

yeah same it's an issue for me too. more specifically, it will crash whenever you complete a level (right after the cutscene vincent has while opening the gate)

You guys, give up, this is deliberate, not a bug. It's an extremely convenient "issue" Atlus got for people to not give away the plot to people who haven't bought the game yet.

You're definitely right. Atlus had asked their team to deliberately go out of their way to prevent game streaming in an attempt to avoid spoilers for a game that came out in February, 2011.

It's much less likely that a console port just wasn't well optimized for PC and has a conflict and crashes by error.

Anyone know where I can buy foil hats?

[DJ SorUwU]

Originally posted by Maximum Dandy:

You're definitely right. Atlus had asked their team to deliberately go out of their way to prevent game streaming in an attempt to avoid spoilers for a game that came out in February, 2011.

It's much less likely that a console port just wasn't well optimized for PC and has a conflict and crashes by error.

Anyone know where I can buy foil hats?

The game is ridiculously stable until you decide to stream, and it conveniently crashes when it goes from the end of a level and into a cutscene. Use Nvidia Shadowplay? Crashes when you enter a cutscene. OBS? Same thing. Streaming through Discord either through window capture or screen sharing (my first option)? Also did the same. And the consistency of the moment it crashes (transitioning to a cutscene) is a dead giveaway. I'd say this isn't an actual crash but more of a "quit application if recording software is being used" kind of call it does during these transitions.

As for it being an old game and not needing this kind of heavy handed measure to avoid spoiling the story to those who aren't playing... have you forgotten that Persona 5 disables the streaming function of the PS4 during key parts on purpose? That still hasn't been removed after all these years. Why are they keeping that in if the game is old enough for everyone and their mother to know the plot?

TL;DR, Japanese execs at Atlus are actually dumb enough to believe people who watch their games streamed won't feel the need to buy the game after.

After news of a Japanese Toyota exec saying something similar about people driving their cars in video games not wanting to buy the actual car, I wouldn't be surprised if Atlus had that boomer mindset instilled.

[Hooligan]

Now my game refuse to play the video of the tip from the sheep at Chapter 4. It crashes and hangs the entire computer. I also cannot Alt-Tab out of the game in Full Screen mode.

This game definitely has a problem working with recording / streaming software.

[DJ SorUwU]

Originally posted by Hooligan:

Now my game refuse to play the video of the tip from the sheep at Chapter 4. It crashes and hangs the entire computer. I also cannot Alt-Tab out of the game in Full Screen mode.

This game definitely has a problem working with recording / streaming software.

Strange, at worst I'm only having a crash to desktop, not dissimilar to running a quit function in the code like Unity does for quitting a game (ApplicationQuit(); for those curious). First time I hear about it actually hanging.

[Menthol Reward]

funny enough, I had the same problem and I work around I did was simply get the into the gameplay and start the stream as soon as I could control Vincent

[DJ SorUwU]

Originally posted by Mental Returd ♿:

funny enough, I had the same problem and I work around I did was simply get the into the gameplay and start the stream as soon as I could control Vincent

Great. That's what I actually did that lasted me longer than the other attempts, but after I reached the top, Vincent closed the door, fade to black... and game quits.

If Atlus actually asked the porting team to run a function to check for streaming hooks and close the game upon detection and only has it run when a cutscene is about to start... Do they know all the cutscenes are up on youtube? The cutscenes have been available to non-players since way back when the game was only on consoles thanks to the dudes who used capture devices on their PS3/X360s.

Knowing that, why bother with this hassle?

[Martini Seco]

I am not very sure about this. When I tried doing this same thing I faced the same problem, the game sudenly crashed when I tried to stream to my friends. I did some research and what I found that I dont know is legitimate, is that it is done on purpose. According to this page, Catherine wont let u run the game while streaming because it doesn't want u to distribute the game in any way, so no recording (nvidia recording and clips wont work either) or streaming (discord). Nvidia just closes at startup, but the game can't actually control that on discord, so whenever u try to stream the game just crashes.
As I said before, I could'nt find a prove that validates what this web page says, but its the only answer I could find myself.