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  1. Reape_28

    Recording Lossless - Drive Capacity Question

    Hey guys, I just have a quick question I haven't been able to figure out the answer too. I'm just curious it anyone would know the answer. If I was recording lossless and had a 4TB hard drive, how many minutes or hours of video would I be able to record before I run out of space lol. I belive...
  2. D

    Disk usage

    Hi! I can`t figure out why free space on my C (system) ssd is still decreasing every time obs launched as I don`t record and I set another ssd for recording?
  3. O

    OBS crashes and webcam issues when on a computer with an SSD.

    Hi all. My old computer was MUCH weaker than this current one but ran OBS relatively well, ditto for the even weaker laptop I used for a while. Now I'm on a much stronger machine with an SSD and all of a sudden, OBS regularly "disconnects" from my webcam (it is still connected to my machine but...
  4. kanciapagamingroom

    Single bigger M2 or M2 + SSD?

    Hey guys! I am going to buy a new disk for my PC mostly for games and records. I want to buy M2 1TB. I wonder if it is big mistake to use this disk for gaming and recording at the same time to the same disk. Or it would be better to buy M2 500GB + SSD 500GB and use M2 for gaming and SSD for...
  5. Z

    How to eliminate excessive RAM and virtual memory consumption on SSD by OBS?

    Hello, can you tell me what to change in the settings so that OBS during streaming does not clog the RAM memory, which after overflow is dumped on the SSD disk to virtual memory? After an hour of streaming, I have the entire 16 GB of ram jammed (and I do not play on the stream, I just talk to...
  6. U

    External SSD/HDD write speed?

    Hi, Firstly, if I am going to be recording at 1440p 60fps straight onto an external hard drive, what write speed should the hard drive have to avoid frame skips etc.? Does it have to be an SSD? (currently have a VBR target of 90,000 kbs). Secondly, if I were to record 4k 60fps, should I also...
  7. S

    Question / Help First timer trouble.....

    I have a mid-2012 MacBook... Put in some updated hardware (ssd and 16 gb ram) in hopes to be able to stream some live music with very basic graphic enhancements.... But every time I try to stream I've been getting "encoder overload" messages.... I use a yamaha mg10xu usb mixer, my iPhone...
  8. N

    Question / Help Impact of recording to HDD vs SSD (Apex Legends recording issue)

    So Apex Legends was released yesterday and here I was, silly old me, thinking that I would be able to DL it, whack my stream on and get some nice new-game views on Twitch and YouTube. However, it appears that the game did not want to play ball with me and regardless of what graphics I set the...
  9. H

    Question / Help Does OBS cache files on the Hard Disk while streaming?

    I would like to install OBS on the SSD. But does OBS store the files on the hard disk for a short time during streaming or will they be uploaded directly, maybe over the RAM? I read in older topics that recordings should be saved on the HDD, which I already knew. But how's that while you're...
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