Am I doing it wrong?

[Eric Stork]

I guess this is the section for my subject

A few years ago when I set up OBS for recording, I set up
- one generic Profile and Scene Collection for Desktop Recording of anything on the monitor, browser, writing programs, anything
- because there is a Game Capture Source, I set up individual Profiles and Scene Collections for different games, currently I have 9

Now I am wondering if the 9 game setups are pointless and I am overdoing it
Reason is I have well over 100 games in different launchers, over time that is over 100 separate Profiles and Scene Collections probably too many

1- Should I just dump all the individual Profiles and Scene Collections using only the generic Desktop Recording for everything?

2 - What is the proper way to use a Game Capture Source without making too many Profiles and Scene Collections?

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

I can't answer directly... hopefully someone else will comment. With that said, in general...
1. Search this forum on conflicts when having game Capture and Window/Display capture in same scene... (not my area, so I don't recall exact details)
2. Separate Profiles/Scene collections make sense when you want different setups... but if resolution, frame rate, capture, etc are all the same, why have a separate Profile/Scene Collection?... especially with more recent OBS Studio release and ability to Group Sources, and re-use across Scenes

Best wishes for getting direct answers to your specific questions