I cannot get OBS to stop suffering from encoder overloading

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KAI_BORG

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Recently I purchased a new, and objectively better laptop, but for some reason despite that whenever I try to use OBS on it I have been suffering constant encoder overload the moment I click on a game tab after hitting record.

I'm not the most technical so I don't know why this is happening considering my old one ran it perfectly and I'd never actually done much fiddling with it at all on there, but I tried what fixes I could, but even after preforming multiple, running OBS as administrator, closing every other possible program except for the one(s) I plan to record, lowering fps from its previous 60 to 30 (which I would really, really prefer not having to keep as a permanent setting), lowering the output resolution from 1600x900 to 1280x720, recording as mkv and remuxing into mp4 afterwards, and keeping the output mode in simple after fiddling with advanced settings seemed to change nothing, and putting OBS on 'high performance' it's still reporting back encoder overload.
So far I've managed to at least lessen said encoder overload by a lot in comparison to other logs, but now I'm also getting back rendering lag too.


Any help would be appreciated, 'cause this is driving me nuts, and I'd much rather keep using OBS then end up going back to fraps.
 
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KAI_BORG

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cyclemat said:
frist you windows is outdated

second i5-4300 8 years old older than my son !

See AMD Radeon 8500M so i think its an Notebook so i cant say buy an nvidia card and use nvenc.
with this system forget is you will only habe problems !
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Did not realize I'd missed that update, so thanks for pointing that out.... might want to turn the auto back on now that I think about it.

And aye, laptop's older than I'd prefer it to be but it was still a more recent model than my previous, and was supposedly at least a bit more powerful going by the... advice I was given on what to get for what I could afford at the time, so that it's somehow running worse than my previous one (of which I'd never even put Windows 10 on before it broke), is confusing especially when a screen recording program such as FRAPS still runs just as fine as it ever has (albiet being a much less advanced application tho).
Past that I've gotten it to go from near 100% encodex overload to near 25-30%, so if there's actually no way to decrease that final quarter too it'd be pretty disappointing tbf.
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

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real-time video encoding is really demanding work. it takes a fair amount of processing power. I tried to livestream using a i5-6300HQ @ 2.3GHz (4c/4t, CPU released in Fall 2015), with a nVidia GTX 960M graphics card (which includes NVENC encoding offload)... and failed... but with some tweaking might have got it to work...
so you might get real-time video encoding to work if you really lower your expectations and settings, optimize your operating system (knowing how and when to turn off/disable background processes, etc), possibly upgrade RAM and SSD, and more that isn't worth it in such an old system

you need the right tool for the job, and a low/mid range old laptop is certainly not the tool for real-time video encoding
 
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KAI_BORG

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Lawrence_SoCal said:
real-time video encoding is really demanding work. it takes a fair amount of processing power. I tried to livestream using a i5-6300HQ @ 2.3GHz (4c/4t, CPU released in Fall 2015), with a nVidia GTX 960M graphics card (which includes NVENC encoding offload)... and failed... but with some tweaking might have got it to work...
so you might get real-time video encoding to work if you really lower your expectations and settings, optimize your operating system (knowing how and when to turn off/disable background processes, etc), possibly upgrade RAM and SSD, and more that isn't worth it in such an old system

you need the right tool for the job, and a low/mid range old laptop is certainly not the tool for real-time video encoding
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Aye, I need to get a better one. Was just confused why it ran so much worse than my previous, thanks for the link, hopefully some of the tips'll help. Though if I need more than 16 gigs of ram, yeesh.

If not, looks like I'll have to start running FRAPS again until I can get a better laptop.
 
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