CPU Issues with Ableton and OBS, Help, please.

[ScottyMac001]

Can anyone help, please?

I’m trying to create tutorials but I can’t play Ableton for very long when recording with OBS. My CPU temperature is hitting 90 Degrees C and my CPU percentage is steadily rising till it glitches out. By this time my fans are going crazy and OBS won’t stop the recording it’s just freezing. My mac book spec is below and main OBS recording specs are below. Any help would be insanely appreciated, I’ve been trouble shooting and trying to get up and running for a week trying to work everything out and after all this I get to the last hurdle and I’m getting crashes and glitches. Mind frazzled lol

Bitrate - 2400

Resolution - 1080

I’m using the Hardware Encoder setting to save on CPU

Hardware Overview:



Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro10,1

Processor Name: Intel Core i7

Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 6 MB

Memory: 16 GB

Boot ROM Version: 262.0.0.0.0

SMC Version (system): 2.3f36

Serial Number (system): C02HW47CDKQ1

Hardware UUID: 73AAE189-E91D-59A2-A4B8-D9BD352A8C9E

 

[norihiro]

What encoder do you use?
The macbook is 9 years old, maybe the resolution (and frame rate) should be lowered so that the amount of data can be reduced.

 

[ScottyMac001]

Hi Norihiro, thank you so much for helping. I'm pulling my hair out with this lol

I don't have an encoder it's just a setting.

I've tried dropping the resolution settings. I have 50GB of space on my HD.

I'm completely lost and hit a brick wall just as I've managed to work everything out this completely kicks me in the nuts and roadblocks me.