Question / Help Is it possible to set the replay buffer in memory?

[Kaduseon]

Say, I have 32GB (or some other inordinately large amount of RAM for the job), would it be possible to set the replay buffer to be in memory rather than in a file?

I would be using Windows 10.

I won't be heartbroken if I can't, or if it was shown to be a terrible idea during testing and development. I'm mostly just curious.

 

[FerretBomb]

I'm pretty sure it does save a rolling buffer in RAM until you hit the 'save replay' button, at which point it dumps that RAM buffer into a file on the disk. Though it may pre-allocate a file of the estimated buffer size on the disk to avoid out-of-space issues. I don't think it does though.

 

[Kaduseon]

Ah, thanks for the reply. I was a little confused by how it had separate estimated memory usage for the replay buffer, and how it also had a replay buffer file path. So, is it more like the path is where it will dump what's currently in the buffer?

 

[Boildown]

If it didn't save to memory, you could use a RAM disk. The Asus ROG motherboards even come with ram disk software. I used to put my Planetside 2 game files on it, but then the game got bigger than my spare memory, so I had to stop. Of course if OBS saves to ram, then there's no point.

 

[FerretBomb]

Yes, that's specifying the file to dump the replay buffer into. So you can record a full session, but also grab replay buffers of highlights.