Question / Help Is my Mac powerful enough for OBS?

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TobiG

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