Can my laptop handle OBS?

[Sepheroth21]

Hello,

I have a dedicated streaming laptop but recently have tried to skip the middleman and go form SLOBS to OBS but when I tried it, the stream was very laggy and low quality. SLOBS was not doing this. My fps was all over the place, CPU was up and down and so was the GPU when I changed the settings. I did notice that chrome was a ram-hog so I stopped having chrome on in the background. But still, the stream was bad. Would uninstalling SLOBS free up some background to improve the use of OBS? Or is it the laptop itself?

TLDR: Dedicated streaming laptop, can it handle OBS?
Specs: Dell Latitude 5300 2-in-1
-Intel Core i7-8665U @ 1.9 GHz
-15.8 GB RAM
-Intel UHD Graphics 620
-Windows 10 Enterprise, x64

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

unless you are almost out of disk space, having SLOBS installed should have no performance impact
then again SSDs like (perform better in general) when they have more spare space to work with (avoiding standard SSD rewrite amplification issues). Filling up an SSD and running that way is a good way to kill an SSD. Leaving 10%+ free space is recommended
Now, ... background apps running (be that SLOBS or anything else) can have a significant impact
That is a low-power laptop, and you are asking for real-time video encoding (heavily demanding) so no, not a good fit. But if SLOBS worked, then OBS should work as well.. ASSUMING similar config/settings... most likely your settings aren't similar

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Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...

OBS Studio creates a log file each time you run it which contains very useful diagnostic information. Without a log file, it's much harder for any support volunteers to figure out problems and your post may be ignored. To upload a log file, go to the Help menu > Log Files > Upload Last Log...

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[Sepheroth21]

unless you are almost out of disk space, having SLOBS installed should have no performance impact
then again SSDs like (perform better in general) when they have more spare space to work with (avoiding standard SSD rewrite amplification issues). Filling up an SSD and running that way is a good way to kill an SSD. Leaving 10%+ free space is recommended
Now, ... background apps running (be that SLOBS or anything else) can have a significant impact
That is a low-power laptop, and you are asking for real-time video encoding (heavily demanding) so no, not a good fit. But if SLOBS worked, then OBS should work as well.. ASSUMING similar config/settings... most likely your settings aren't similar

per pinned post in this forum

Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...

OBS Studio creates a log file each time you run it which contains very useful diagnostic information. Without a log file, it's much harder for any support volunteers to figure out problems and your post may be ignored. To upload a log file, go to the Help menu > Log Files > Upload Last Log...

obsproject.com

Thank you for your reply, not sure why I did not notice the response until now, but thank you nonetheless. I will see where my SSD stands and try again.