【SOS】HOW CAN A LOW-END DESKTOP COMPUTER FROM 15 YEARS AGO PUSH STREAMING SMOOTHLY?.

[OBS HELP SEEKER]

Dear official. Hello, dear netizens. I have the following questions and really need your help. I am very grateful for all the help and support given to me when I was at a low point.

Information about my desktop.
（win10 PC)
CPU:AMD X4 830
Discrete graphics card:：X5 230
Memory: 8GB
SSD：120G
The latest version of OBS.

The ideal state: able to push 720P videos smoothly.（But my computer cannot push in 720P mode. The CPU usage is extremely high and frames are dropped.）
My OBS settings: FPS24
Resolution:1280 720 （If you turn on the computer camera in this mode, the computer will be very stuck. CPU usage is extremely high.）
CBR：2500 Key interval: 2 CPUDefault:Super fast.

Question 1: If my computer configuration cannot push 720P no matter how I set it, what is the highest resolution I can push?
Question 2: Can OBS be used on super low-end antique computers? Will the official consider compatibility with antique machines when upgrading OBS and make it work smoothly?

 

[AaronD]

Can OBS be used on super-low-end hardware? Technically yes, but you probably won't like it. I have an old cheap laptop (cheap even when new) that I got to record an hour or so of 640x480 @ 10fps. It did that smoothly, but only barely. It was fine for the bread machine that I was troubleshooting, with an analog NTSC camera staring at it (old yellow RCA plug), but you probably wouldn't want to stream with that!

 

[OBS HELP SEEKER]

If in 10FPS state. Can't I use 720P mode?

 

[AaronD]

Frame size and frame rate are independent of each other, and it's the total pixels per second that matters...roughly. There might be some details in how the encoding works that favors one over the other, but if you're worried about that for anything serious, you should take an equally-serious look at getting some better hardware.

 

[OBS HELP SEEKER]

thank you for your support. I'm trying 640 480 streaming radio. FPS 24 hopes to be successful. OBS really eats too much hardware. thank you for your reply.