Question / Help Bad Looking Local Recording Due To Downscaling

[FreeFourAll]

So I have a 2560x1400 monitor, which is a silly resolution to record at, thus I downscale. However, even in FRAPS or DXTORY, the recording looks terrible when I do. In OBS, setting it to native and downscaling to 720p at highest quality looks bad, and so does setting the resolution to 720p. If I set it to my native and just keep it there, everything looks fantastic. Anyone know of a way to downscale/record at a lower resolution without it looking like crap?

 

[dping]

its 16x9 so set a custom resolution to 1920 x 1080 and downscale to 1280x720 use laczose filter

 

[FreeFourAll]

its 16x9 so set a custom resolution to 1920 x 1080 and downscale to 1280x720 use laczose filter

Oops, I meant 2560x1440 or 1440p, so it is 16:9.

 

[dping]

Oops, I meant 2560x1440 or 1440p, so it is 16:9.

Yes 1440p is a 16x9 so the aspect ratio is the same.

 

[Sapiens]

Honestly there's not much you can do short of playing with the resize filters or lowering your source resolution (ie lowering the resolution your game runs at), going from 2560x1440 to 1280x720 throws out 75% of the pixels. Depending on your specs I would consider recording at 1440p, and then recompressing and resizing it later with a program like Handbrake to see how that works. If your goal is to upload to Youtube you might not resize at all, I've seen videos with 1440p support there.

 

[FreeFourAll]

Honestly there's not much you can do short of playing with the resize filters or lowering your source resolution (ie lowering the resolution your game runs at), going from 2560x1440 to 1280x720 throws out 75% of the pixels. Depending on your specs I would consider recording at 1440p, and then recompressing and resizing it later with a program like Handbrake to see how that works. If your goal is to upload to Youtube you might not resize at all, I've seen videos with 1440p support there.

I have an FX 6300 and 4 gigs of RAM, so I could use the fastest or very fast preset.

 

[dping]

I have an FX 6300 and 4 gigs of RAM, so I could use the fastest or very fast preset.

I will easily tell you no, but go ahead and try it. AMD CPU's don't excel at encoding, even their strongest 8cores. and if you are local recording there is zero need to raise the cpu preset as you can raise the bitrate instead or set the bitrate to 1000 and the buffer to 0 which will create the best quality recording bitrate for your resolution.

 

[FreeFourAll]

I will easily tell you no, but go ahead and try it. AMD CPU's don't excel at encoding, even their strongest 8cores. and if you are local recording there is zero need to raise the cpu preset as you can raise the bitrate instead or set the bitrate to 1000 and the buffer to 0 which will create the best quality recording bitrate for your resolution.

Yeah, the FX CPUs are terrible at encoding, failing at fast at 720p... I usually do faster at 720, so maybe very or super fast at 1440p would work.