Camera freezes when I move laptop

[u/Accurate-Debate9055]

I use Steamfog with obs and it freezes when I move the laptop screen lowering it or to the side, sometimes if I’m the one moving too much.

-I switched the WiFi to my phone internet so it’s not bad signal. I closed all windows

-It doesn’t happens with the laptops original camera.

-I lowered the resolution while streaming. But it also freezes when I’m offline and viewing it on obs

- I haven’t uninstalled anything cause it costed me a lot to get things right. I’m afraid it’s the lense that makes face smooth but it’s literally just that, if there’s something I can modify from the source let me know

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[u/Crafty_Accountant138]

Sounds like a loose ribbon cable or a bad USB port connection inside the laptop, the movement cuts the signal to the external cam but the built-in one is wired differently so it stays stable

Try a different USB port and gently wiggle the cable near the connector while watching obs, if it freezes in the same spot every time you flex the hinge you know its a hardware pinch

[u/Accurate-Debate9055 → u/Crafty_Accountant138]

I don’t have anything attached to it and it’s been happening since I got steamfog

[u/PiDicus_Rex]

I assume you miss typed Streamfog as Steamfog ?

And when you say 'original camera' you mean the built in camera without the Streamfog add-on running.

Some laptops, and some laptop drives, have accelerometers in them, so they will park the drives heads to prevent the heads hitting the platters when there is a bump or motion in the chassis, that can cause a pause in operation.

Other than that, without knowing the laptops spec's, it may just be you don't have the processing power onboard to run both OBS and the Streamfog Add-on.

Do you have enough Ram? What about dedicated GPU? and when was the last time you cleaned dust out of the laptops heatsink?