Question / Help Elgato and OBS question

dodgepong

dodgepong

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A 9800 GT would work very poorly with OBS. It would technically "work" (in the sense that you wouldn't get the DirtectX 10 error) but it would perform so badly that you wouldn't be able to use OBS. That's not a guess, that's an observed fact, having personally seen several people try to do it. It's not worth it.

Support for older GPUs will never be added to the original OBS. Support for more GPUs was expanded in OBS Multiplatform, but you're still going to have a bad time of it. I'm sure some of the "bugginess" you were experiencing in Multiplatform was due to your old GPU.
 
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Giri

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Dodge since you are saying a 9800 wouldn't technically work, what would be a cheap graphics card that would work with OBS?
 
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dping

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Giri said:
Ok, aside from Nvidia GPU's would AMD's GPU's work, what specifically?
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Anything in the 7000 series, R7 series, or R9 series. The r9 270 are really good cards for their price.

Even the R7 260X is good for what you are doing. plus is has a hardware encoder in case you want to use that for recording locally
 
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dping

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Giri said:
Dodge I mean under 50 dollars. Also Dping R7 260X is going to work with OBS?
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Its a DX12 card with DX11.1 feature level. It also does VCE instead of x264 which is great for keeping the load off the CPU.

Almost any video card from the past 3 years will work. but to be safe, I would get one advertized at least DX11
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127791
is an example. I'm trying to keep the VCE feature in the cards I pick because I really feel your CPU is to weak and VCE should allow you to record up to 1080p30fps video
 
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Giri

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Honestly, once again I don't mean to make this topic a live discussion again but I have one more question. Will a GTX 950 work with OBS? If you want to see my full build for a new computer I'm getting in a couple of weeks here ya go: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/pjXr3C
 
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