Question / Help Can you recommend OBS settings for my PC

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mohawk411

New Member
Hi OBS experts,

I am new to OBS and I am struggling to find the best settings to get the most out of my PC. My spec is below.

PC: Dell 690 Precision

CPU: Intel Xeon E5345 @ 2.33GHz Quad core
Graphics card: Nvidia Quadro FX 5500
Ram: 8 GB of DDR2 Ram

I am barely getting 17 FPS on 720p at the moment when streaming.

Thanks.
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
Your CPU has a passmark of roughly 3000 points. For 720p streaming with gaming on the same pc, normally around 4000 are recommended. To give you some benchmark values to work with.

Are you going to stream or do recordings? In the latter case you could tweak your settings to a lower CPU usage but with a still very good quality. For Streaming you will probably have to reduce Resolution/FPS/preset to get it working without too big fps drops.
Upload us a log with your tests and we can maybe give you some more values to work with :)
 
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mohawk411

New Member
Jack0r said:
Your CPU has a passmark of roughly 3000 points. For 720p streaming with gaming on the same pc, normally around 4000 are recommended. To give you some benchmark values to work with.

Are you going to stream or do recordings? In the latter case you could tweak your settings to a lower CPU usage but with a still very good quality. For Streaming you will probably have to reduce Resolution/FPS/preset to get it working without too big fps drops.
Upload us a log with your tests and we can maybe give you some more values to work with :)
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Thanks for your post.

I am using the PC to stream console gameplay so I wont be gaming and streaming from the PC, just streaming.
What settings would you recommend tweaking to lower CPU usage? resolution?

Where can I locate the logs in OBS?
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
In the OBS window under Help - Log Files - You can upload current/last Log file and post us the link here.
I would probably start with 25fps, 480p resolution and keep it on veryfast preset if possbile.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

Administrator
Community Helper
Your GPU is really holding you back, here. That GPU is typically only for workstation PCs and not designed for any intense graphics work.

If you can trade the monitor capture for Window capture and re-enable Aero, that would help some. Also, downscaling quite a bit could also help, too. But the GPU is really the bottleneck.
 
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mohawk411

New Member
dodgepong said:
Your GPU is really holding you back, here. That GPU is typically only for workstation PCs and not designed for any intense graphics work.

If you can trade the monitor capture for Window capture and re-enable Aero, that would help some. Also, downscaling quite a bit could also help, too. But the GPU is really the bottleneck.
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Thanks for your post, the PC itself is a Dell workstation.

I was thinking of swapping the GPU out and putting in a Geforce gtx 750-Ti card to get more graphics processing http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop ... gtx-750-ti
 
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