Can I physically make my laptop capable of recording Minecraft or am I doomed?

[sansbeyond]

Hi. I downloaded OBS for the first time ever about an hour ago and did a few little test recordings on Minecraft to see how it works. Everything was alright, but when I played back the videos it was capturing about one frame every 30 seconds. Someone on the Discord told me to do something with the logs that led me to a link: https://obsproject.com/logs/YzjAI8ddAMNsNlmK and from there I was told that my computer cannot run OBS and Minecraft. Is there anything I can do? Is my computer just too terrible? Thanks for your time.

 

[Sukiyucky]

Because you told it to record at 30FPS:

21:06:40.819: video settings reset:
21:06:40.819: base resolution: 1366x768
21:06:40.819: output resolution: 1280x720
21:06:40.819: downscale filter: Bicubic
21:06:40.819: fps: 30/1
21:06:40.819: format: NV12
21:06:40.819: YUV mode: 709/Partial
21:06:40.821: NV12 texture support not available

However, I would recommend getting a better computer. An Intel i5-4300M is far behind today's more powerful CPUs. That and your Intel 4600 is weak graphics processor as well.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

I tried streaming with a 15-6500 and a GTX mobile GPU and failed. BUt I've learned a lot in last year
*if* [and I'm not saying it will] real-time video encoding is going you work, you'll have to learn to optimize both OS and OBS setting to minimize hardware demands

Start with NOT using OBS Studio mode (dual rendering). Have your base and output resolution be the same. and dozens of other settings to minimize workload... and then maybe

 

[sansbeyond]

Thanks for your input. I think I'm going to try recording myself in a more creative way (with Minecraft's replay mod) until I can get myself a decent computer that wasn't made in 2007. It is useful to know that this old thing can't handle much work at all.