So this is my first thread on the OBS forums and it's a big one (to me at least). I've been streaming for a while and I'm loving it 100%, but I'm relying on my elgato game capture HD to do all the work for me and it crashes a lot. I want to use OBS cause everyone loves it, it has lots of cool features, and it's FREE! I installed it on my laptop, but it doesn't work cause it asks for my graphics card. I don't have a graphics card in my laptop cause it uses the integrated intel graphics. I'm planning on building a custom streaming PC and want to know what graphics card I should get. What do you guys think?
Question / Help Is a graphics card a necessity when using OBS to stream on twitch?
- Thread starter Juhremi
- Start date
Do you have any specific graphics card you could recommend? I feel like the one I currently have in mind may not be enough for streaming. Here is a link to the card I'm looking into buying:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00966IU4M...TF8&colid=2PCD0GFS6DJ2A&coliid=I2KN0DCOGFVM5F
Videophile
Elgato
Something like a AMD R7-250 or 260 will work very nicely(I speak from experience, my streaming PC has a R7-260 in it)
Thanks again! Do you have any recommendations for NVIDIA cards though? If you got some sweet AMD cards that are too good to pass up then great. I'll accept any recommendations, I just prefer NVIDIA a bit more.
FerretBomb
Active Member
Anything newer than a GTX 300-series should work fine.
Videophile
Elgato
As Ferret said, anything above a GTX 3XX would work.
Just to rule out GPU issues, I would recommend going with a 6-series or higher. Something like a GTX 650, 640, or 750.