Question / Help Is my Mac powerful enough for OBS?

[TobiG]

Hello
I just downloaded OBS a couple days ago and was going to use it for recording games and commentary. Any time that I try to play a game and run OBS I get the "Overloaded" error telling me to lower video settings or use a faster preset, I believe it's called? But I'm running on 1280x720 resolution with an ultrafast preset and I've tried other fixes I could find on the internet but nothing seems to work. Could it just be that my computer is not powerful enough to run OBS or are there other settings I could try?
Mac Specs:
MacBook Air (13 inch, Early 2015)
Processor: 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
https://gist.github.com/67746f59a0afc259c5e0013fc033a140
I'm not amazing at tech so sorry if I forgot to include anything or something wasn't clear!

 

[Narcogen]

Basically, no. If you're on 720p30 and ultrafast and it still says encoding overloaded, there's not much else you can do. Scale to a lower framesize, go to a lower framerate (you're not trying to go higher than 30fps, are you?) are basically the best things you can do to lower encoding load.

 

[pkv]

select QSV as encoder , this will offload encoding to intel quicksync core dedicated to h264 encoding/decoding.

 

[Narcogen]

Is there support for QuickSync in the MacOS version?

Also, I'm not sure having OBS use the same Intel GPU that he's playing a game on using a laptop is really going to help much. It'll just go from encoding lag to rendering lag.

 

[pkv]

oh my bad, no support for QSV indeed on mac so no solution other than lowering resolution

 

[pkv]

edit:
@Narcogen
1) mac do support QSV through videotoolbox ==> select Apple Hardware Encoder
2) hardware encoders have negligible effect on rendering (talked about it with dodgepong and Fenrir on dev channel)

 

[Narcogen]

Good info, thanks!