good laptop getting encoding overload

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mindhumble

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I have a newish laptop which has a very good (not top end but very good) GPU and the specs should be enough to handle the recording i am doing, as my previous laptop managed ok. But i am getting encoding overload warnings when recording. I have used the auto wizard in obs and restarted but to no avail.
I uploaded the current log file after restarting and recording for 30 seconds as your forum post instructs https://obsproject.com/logs/um7t3hnAn4yInE68
I dont want to sacrifice on the brilliant 1080 resolution as even the best lanczos filter leaves the text slightly blurry.
2 Questions:
1. Is there a reason why my laptop isnt handling what should be a basic game recording and
2. What would be the best option to solve this problem without sacrificing too much in terms of quality
Greatly appreciated
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

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The issue, would appear to be that GPU (Pascal based TU117 from other foum post.. no idea if accurate) does NOT have NVENC (intentionally disabled by nVidia. So you are using Intel QuickSync (CPU). And then you add chroma-keying on top of it... in a laptop, designed for battery life, not performance, subject to thermal throttling ...
My recommendation
- research your specific laptop, how to identify and remediate, to extent possible, thermal throttling
- do real-time monitoring of hardware resource (CPU, GPU, RAM, Disk I/O, etc) utilization [for ex. using Task manager’s Performance tab and/or Resource Monitor] to see if your system is being maxed out with your settings https://obsproject.com/wiki/General-Performance-and-Encoding-Issues and https://obsproject.com/wiki/GPU-overload-issues
- beware background processes which may be using up CPU cycles causing resource contention
- then adjust your settings to account for your systems capabilities
 
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mindhumble

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as far as i can see i am not maxed out on task manager, and i usually us the laptop plugged in.
So are you saying that i am not using my GPU to help with the OBS at all, or just the potentially useful NVENC is disabled but the GPU is still the main processor being used (as opposed to the intel one)?
I will read the links you gave (i believe the second one i read before posting here) thanks for your help so far.
I am going to look up this thermal throttling thing and get back if there is any useful information i find.
Is there any way i could enable NVENC or is that not adviasable (since Nvidia seems to have disabled it i assume it is for a good reason..or maybe not)?
 
sandrix

sandrix

Member
GeForce MX450 has no NVENC support at all
developer.nvidia.com

Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix

Find the related video encoding and decoding support for all NVIDIA GPU products.
developer.nvidia.com developer.nvidia.com
You need to set up x264 or quick sync correctly

x264
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sandrix

sandrix

Member
Your processor performance is not enough. In any case, you will need to sacrifice something. Resolution, fps or preset. In your case, it makes more sense to use Intel QuickSync.
 
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