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_War_Child_

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I downloaded OBS about a month ago and figured out how to adjust the settings so that I could record gameplay and post it on my YouTube channel. Everything was working great with my smaller/thinner monitor, but I've now upgraded to a slightly bigger monitor (a little wider, and much taller/higher). I am not a technical person so I don't know what is wrong or how to fix it, but when I record my gameplay, it cuts off the sides and the bottom of my screen. And it also makes a video where the game picture is smaller than the video picture and it appears in the upper left corner with the rest of the video screen as black.

I'm recording at 1920x1080 with 60 FPS and don't know what to change/fix so that it goes back to recording what I actually see on my screen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

If you need to know it, I have a Dell XPS computer (several years old) with an AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series video card.

THANK YOU in advance
 
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_War_Child_

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Okay. I think I figured out where to change the settings in my Capture folder. Can someone tell me why I should go with either 30 versus 60 FPS? I know what that stands for but I don't know if I need more to post videos on YouTube.
 
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Harold

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60fps needs 100% more cpu time in OBS to record and between 50% and 100% more bitrate compared to 30fps.
 
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_War_Child_

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Thank you for that information. I apologize for my ignorance in this regard. Do videos look nicer in 60fps? I "think" my CPU can handle both the game (World of Tanks) and OBS, but I don't know for sure. I want them to look as nice as possible without locking up or overtaxing my system (Dell XPS desktop about 4 years old).

I also don't fully understand what format I should record in. The people that I post videos for prefer 720p videos. I use Windows Movie Maker to convert my OBS Recordings into "High Definition Display" format and that seems to work (or it's 720p, not really sure on that either). I'm not sure what level of detail I'm recording but it looks nice to me - however, my monitor isn't High Definition I don't think.

Really appreciate your assistance with my issues!!
 
Harold

Harold

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If you're streaming to twitch, you generally should not use 60fps. The bitrate required to make it look good is too high for their viewer servers.

For recording, you have the option to go with enough bitrate to make up the difference, but again, your system may not be able to keep up.

The best bet you're going to have is to use obs studio, output settings:
Simple output mode
Indistinguishable recording quality
Software low cpu use, Hardware NVENC or Hardware QSV encoder
 
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_War_Child_

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I'm not a streamer. I like to edit my raw footage because it's...well, raw. This is my processor (no idea if it's good or not):

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

and I have a 50mbps download speed internet connection. Do you think that is good enough to get 60fps going without overtaxing the computer?

If Studio is the fancier version of OBS, I don't think I downloaded that one. Is it better for a novice like me?
 
Harold

Harold

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Studio may be fancier, but you are definitely not doing yourself ANY favors by going with classic, as classic is no longer being developed and hasn't received any meaningful updates in 9 months.

Your system should be able to record at 1080p60 using the settings in studio I gave you.
 
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_War_Child_

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First, let me say YOU ARE THE MAN! Downloaded Studio and it is just as easy for me to figure out as the regular. I don't understand exactly what 1080p is, but my base resolution for my screen is 1680x1050 and that is what it is set to record at and I only upped the fps from 30 to 60. I've also tinkered with the noise suppression to reduce the constant "white noise" that I hear on my cheap mic and that seems to be working great.

I don't want to overtax you anymore than I already have, but I'd like you to double check my work and see what you think.

I have it set up for:

Recording Quality: Indistinguishable (does it look better if you go with Lossless quality? too much to handle?)
Recording Format: mp4 - that's a format I know, but I don't know what is best to use here (any thoughts?)
Encoder: Software x264 low CPU usage...

I changed the Audio sample rate from 44.1 to 48 (thinking higher is better, but I have no clue)

On video:

Base Resolution 1680x1050 (it automatically went to this, no idea if I need to change it)
Output Resolution: 1680x1050 (I had to upgrade this so it matches Base)
Downscale Filter: Lanczos - Sharpened scaling, 32 samples (No clue what this is, but I set it to best. Do I need to?)

Under Advanced Options:

Process Priority: Normal (but there are higher ones - do these matter?)

Renderer: Direct3D 11 (it was set on this already, but there's an option for OpenGL as well - what is this?)

There's a few other things, but they don't look important to me.

Again, can't thank you enough for your assistance with this. I'll be looking like a pro in no time!

Will
aka _War_Child_
 
Harold

Harold

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Recording Format: mp4 - that's a format I know, but I don't know what is best to use here (any thoughts?)
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Save to FLV as your recording format. If your editing software requires MP4, remux afterwards from the file menu.

Nothing else you've listed need to be changed.
 
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_War_Child_

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I don't have any programs that can open an FLV file (Windows 10 computer) and therefore have to Remux it to MP4. Would it be better just to save it as MP4 right off the bat?
 
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