Question / Help Just looking for some optimizing help

[stockus]

So, after looking at the thread about making quick and easy local recordings, I got all excited and was like "woo! I have a reasonably good computer! Maybe I can do this!" and I went about doing all the steps but I've been dipping further and further in quality and it's a little disconcerting. I'm pretty sure it's all on me, of course! My hardware is probably a little short but I'd really just like to know where the hang up is.

I'm playing Titanfall's Beta on PC currently, not a laptop (I saw that was an issue with black screens or something...) I can't seem to run it in Game Capture but it works reasonably well in Window Capture. Also (and I'm going to paste all the logs and even my hardware configuration in a second) I can't seem to get my OBS settings either low enough, or efficient enough to play without a good deal of stuttering or frame-skipping.
this is my hardware:

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Operating System
	Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
	AMD FX-6100	
	Zambezi 32nm Technology
RAM
	12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
	ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L-M/USB3 (AM3R2)
Graphics
	SyncMaster (1920x1080@60Hz)
	1024MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 (EVGA)	
Hard Drives
	932GB Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 ATA Device (SATA)	
Optical Drives
	DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
Audio
	VIA High Definition Audio

I've attached the log file below.

Anyway! Just to cap this off, I'm not looking to stream anything as of now, I just want some decent local recordings and is there any way that I could do anything to make my video outputs less laggy and become, at the very least, smooth.

 

[Floatingthru]

200 series GPU's from Nvidia are known to be poor performers in OBS due to having really slow GDDR3 memory. There really isn't anything you can do unless you upgrade your GPU. You can see in your log here what the bottleneck is. It is taking to long to copy the data to and from the VRAM of your GPU.

14:55:03: | GPU download and conversion - [84.8%] [avg time: 59.699 ms] [children: 90.5%] [unaccounted: -5.7%]
14:55:03: | | flush - [0.101%] [avg time: 0.071 ms]
14:55:03: | | CopyResource - [90.4%] [avg time: 63.626 ms]

 

[stockus]

Yea I was thinking that was the hold-up and wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. What would be the best and cheapest step up you think?

Alternatively, can I even get the quality down low enough you think?

 

[Floatingthru]

What is your budget? The GTX 760 is the card I recommend to most people, but is isn't so cheap... You could always try the lowest possible resolution, but that won't be pretty at all. It isn't worth it honestly.

 

[stockus]

I'll give it a whirl. Eh, that runs, what? $260? Looking closer to $100. If I upgrade at all soon. They haven't made a solid card in the meantime? I guess this is getting a bit away from the scope of OBS though! So thanks for your thoughts.

 

[Floatingthru]

That's why I asked for a budget ;p Wait for the new 750 or 750 ti to come out VERY soon (days hopefully). Those cards should be in your budget and will be a great upgrade for you.

 

[stockus]

Oh. Hadn't heard of these. What's the deal with them? I'm not very good at keeping up with hardware, from the pictures I've seen they look pretty...small? (I know, I'm good at this) so I'm assuming they're not higher end cards, but you'd be suggesting it because it's easily better than the 285?

 

[Floatingthru]

These are the first two Maxwell cards from Nvidia just Google it for more information. They are small and quite power efficient, yet still good enough to play modern games. They will destroy your 285, because that is an ancient card these days. The street price is supposedly around $100 USD and should launch on the 18th.

 

[stockus]

Shit. Nice. Yea I Googled them but everyone seems so jazzed about it they're not saying very much. I DID however check some of the spec sheets people had posted against the 285 and yea, they sound pretty nice and at $~100... well I might have to look into that. There are some other cards that sit at $170 (GTX 660, specifically), are they a cut up on that or definitely not? Alternatively...I'm not 100% those larger cards will fit in my computer.

Also thanks for this info! Definitely something to keep in mind!