Hi guys,
After various other recording softwares have failed me but OBS Studio always worked, I'm considering to use OBS for both streaming and recording games at the same time. There is however a slight complication: I would like to record only the gameplay, not the entire overlay that my stream uses with alerts, webcam etc. (I would also possibly like to use different encoders as x264 is the recommended choice for streaming but NVENC seems to be less ressource-intense for recordings, but that's just a bonus.)
As far as I understand it, there seems to be no option to do this with a single version of OBS so far - is that correct?
Others proposed using OBS classic and Studio to achieve this, but with Classic no longer being in development, I'm not sure if this is the best option.
Is there a way of having two installations of OBS studio with completely different settings, hotkeys etc so that I could use one installation specifically to stream and the other to record? When just running OBS twice with different profiles, the hotkeys would still overlap, correct? Would setting the second OBS Studio up with the -portable command and exported different settings solve this?
Or am I maybe thinking way too complex and there's a much easier way? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Duke
After various other recording softwares have failed me but OBS Studio always worked, I'm considering to use OBS for both streaming and recording games at the same time. There is however a slight complication: I would like to record only the gameplay, not the entire overlay that my stream uses with alerts, webcam etc. (I would also possibly like to use different encoders as x264 is the recommended choice for streaming but NVENC seems to be less ressource-intense for recordings, but that's just a bonus.)
As far as I understand it, there seems to be no option to do this with a single version of OBS so far - is that correct?
Others proposed using OBS classic and Studio to achieve this, but with Classic no longer being in development, I'm not sure if this is the best option.
Is there a way of having two installations of OBS studio with completely different settings, hotkeys etc so that I could use one installation specifically to stream and the other to record? When just running OBS twice with different profiles, the hotkeys would still overlap, correct? Would setting the second OBS Studio up with the -portable command and exported different settings solve this?
Or am I maybe thinking way too complex and there's a much easier way? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Duke