Best Settings for Dell Inspiron 3521

[ErenProo1665]

As implied at the title, what are the best settings for Inspiron 3521
4 GB DDR3 798.7 MHz
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3217U CPU @ 1.80MHz

 

[AaronD]

Tools -> Auto-Configuration Wizard.

Keep EXACTLY what it comes up with. Don't change it until you know what you're doing.

If *that* still causes you problems, you can follow up here with all of those details. And a log file from Help -> Log Files -> Upload Current/Previous Log File. Copy/paste the URL that that gives you, not the file itself, both here and into the automated analyzer that you can get to from my signature.

 

[ErenProo1665]

Tools -> Auto-Configuration Wizard.

Keep EXACTLY what it comes up with. Don't change it until you know what you're doing.

If *that* still causes you problems, you can follow up here with all of those details. And a log file from Help -> Log Files -> Upload Current/Previous Log File. Copy/paste the URL that that gives you, not the file itself, both here and into the automated analyzer that you can get to from my signature.

Wizard makes my laptop lag. I did settings like this:

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

youtu.be

 

[AaronD]

Wizard makes my laptop lag.

Then your laptop itself is probably lacking. The wizard probably killed the quality as much as it could, and it's still too much.

You're using CPU encoding (x264), which takes a fair amount of juice, and the recording is set to use that again instead of copying the stream. So you have two simultaneous software encodes if you're doing both. All on a pretty old CPU.

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You also say it's a laptop. That's another red flag, because laptops generally have terrible cooling and overheat easily. The idea there is to load something quickly, and then sit and do nothing while it cools off and the user looks at what it just loaded. Not what you want for media production.

Media production hits it hard, continuously, so it runs smack into thermal throttling and stays there. So even though the published clock is 1.80 GHz (correcting your mistake), or 1800 MHz, you might actually see more like 600 MHz continuous. Good luck with that!

There *are* laptops that can do this - I have one myself: a Dell Precision M6800, bought new in 2015 - but they actually have decent cooling, which makes them thick and heavy. If you have to use a laptop, look at the "mobile workstation" class.

 

[ErenProo1665]

Then your laptop itself is probably lacking. The wizard probably killed the quality as much as it could, and it's still too much.

You're using CPU encoding (x264), which takes a fair amount of juice, and the recording is set to use that again instead of copying the stream. So you have two simultaneous software encodes if you're doing both. All on a pretty old CPU.

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You also say it's a laptop. That's another red flag, because laptops generally have terrible cooling and overheat easily. The idea there is to load something quickly, and then sit and do nothing while it cools off and the user looks at what it just loaded. Not what you want for media production.

Media production hits it hard, continuously, so it runs smack into thermal throttling and stays there. So even though the published clock is 1.80 GHz (correcting your mistake), or 1800 MHz, you might actually see more like 600 MHz continuous. Good luck with that!

There *are* laptops that can do this - I have one myself: a Dell Precision M6800, bought new in 2015 - but they actually have decent cooling, which makes them thick and heavy. If you have to use a laptop, look at the "mobile workstation" class.

As you said, my laptop died. I had a hard time closing all programs. I ran the wizard and changed the output to x256 (Low CPU preset) since it was giving errors. But then I remembered. I changed these settings because it lagged all over again. All my beggings to my dad will never work :/ Well, anyways... Is there something another I can try?

 

[AaronD]

Is there something another I can try?

Save all the pennies you can, and in the meantime, do a lot of research on what hardware does do what you need. When you've saved enough to buy something that works, do.

 

[ErenProo1665]

Save all the pennies you can, and in the meantime, do a lot of research on what hardware does do what you need. When you've saved enough to buy something that works, do.

Except, if this works... seems like I need to crank the settings down a lot. My dad won't get me something new.

 

[AaronD]

My dad won't get me something new.

YOU get something new. Save enough that you can. Work an extra job, or more hours at your current one, and don't spend it on anything else in the meantime.

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I suspect that your experience with OBS on your current machine will be like an old laptop that I used once to monitor a bread machine to try and catch it acting up. Set-and-forget, recording-only, with an NTSC camera (640x480) all by itself, with the canvas and output size set to that too so it wouldn't have to scale anything, and I had to take *that* down to 10fps before it would keep up. It was still okay to troubleshoot the bread machine, but you probably don't want to stream with that!

 

[qhobbes]

Your i3-3217U supports Quick Sync Video (QSV). Use that instead of x264/5. You may need to use a version of OBS prior to 30. You can download 29.1.3 at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/29.1.3

 

[ErenProo1665]

Your i3-3217U supports Quick Sync Video (QSV). Use that instead of x264/5. You may need to use a version of OBS prior to 30. You can download 29.1.3 at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/29.1.3

I will try this.

 

[ErenProo1665]

YOU get something new. Save enough that you can. Work an extra job, or more hours at your current one, and don't spend it on anything else in the meantime.

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I suspect that your experience with OBS on your current machine will be like an old laptop that I used once to monitor a bread machine to try and catch it acting up. Set-and-forget, recording-only, with an NTSC camera (640x480) all by itself, with the canvas and output size set to that too so it wouldn't have to scale anything, and I had to take *that* down to 10fps before it would keep up. It was still okay to troubleshoot the bread machine, but you probably don't want to stream with that!

Just wait until you see Turkish Lira constantly losing its value because of our people voting to wrong candidate. No way I'm getting something better :skull: