MitchTJones
New Member
Hi guys,
I love OBS and it's by far my favorite recording software, but when compared to Dxtory and ShadowPlay, it has the biggest performance impact of the three (see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/letsplay/comments/5lqgol/recordingencoding_performance_comparison_nvenc/)
My computer is a laptop with an i7-6700HQ and a GTX 1060, 16GB of DDR4-2400 RAM, a 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. Some people said that it's the thermals of a laptop that are somehow killing my performance, but using Intel XTU and HWiNFO to monitor my system I've seen absolutely no signs of thermal throttling.
So I decided to do some more tests and found that having OBS open on my second monitor has an average framerate impact of 15.7 FPS in the Unigine Valley benchmark - disabling preview reduces this to 9.6 and minimizing has makes no difference from disabling preview. Actually recording using NVENC or QuickSync only drops framerate by 3 FPS more than just having OBS open... a completely acceptable framerate drop.
So, since all the settings within OBS only affect things while recording, how do I stop the OBS application, even when not recording, from having such a huge framerate impact?? The framerate drop seems to be a percentage, so it is very noticeable in Arma 3 where I get 30 FPS max anyway and OBS drops that down to 20 FPS max... big difference - in H1Z1 and Overwatch I go from around 200 to around 120-150.
Thanks!
I love OBS and it's by far my favorite recording software, but when compared to Dxtory and ShadowPlay, it has the biggest performance impact of the three (see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/letsplay/comments/5lqgol/recordingencoding_performance_comparison_nvenc/)
My computer is a laptop with an i7-6700HQ and a GTX 1060, 16GB of DDR4-2400 RAM, a 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. Some people said that it's the thermals of a laptop that are somehow killing my performance, but using Intel XTU and HWiNFO to monitor my system I've seen absolutely no signs of thermal throttling.
So I decided to do some more tests and found that having OBS open on my second monitor has an average framerate impact of 15.7 FPS in the Unigine Valley benchmark - disabling preview reduces this to 9.6 and minimizing has makes no difference from disabling preview. Actually recording using NVENC or QuickSync only drops framerate by 3 FPS more than just having OBS open... a completely acceptable framerate drop.
So, since all the settings within OBS only affect things while recording, how do I stop the OBS application, even when not recording, from having such a huge framerate impact?? The framerate drop seems to be a percentage, so it is very noticeable in Arma 3 where I get 30 FPS max anyway and OBS drops that down to 20 FPS max... big difference - in H1Z1 and Overwatch I go from around 200 to around 120-150.
Thanks!
