Low FPS output

[RogueAgent]

Doing two completely different tasks, OBS reduced the video FPS to less than 5.

1. A virtual camera to Zoom. OBS has an PPT background and green-screened overlay from a Logitech 920 webcam. Just streaming as a virtual camera. No saving of the video.

2. Capture full screen incoming video and saving. No streaming. No rendering of the video. Captured and saved at 1920x1080. For this, I was able to use Corel VideoStudio to capture and save at 30 FPS -- no problem.

HP Zbook. i7 processor. 24 GB RAM. 400 GB free space. Windows 7. Hardware encoding.

Is this a settings issue or a problem with OBS's programming?

TIA

 

[FerretBomb]

OBS is not designed to be a stream-catcher. It is still doing all the rendering/scaling/etc steps even just pirating a stream like that. It is NOT saving the incoming stream itself, it's displaying it and re-making a copy of that display.

This is user error, yes.

 

[koala]

Upgrade to Windows 10. Display capture on Windows 7 is very low fps. This is Windows 7 specific. Or use window capture or game capture, these don't have these performance restrictions.

 

[RogueAgent]

OBS is not designed to be a stream-catcher. It is still doing all the rendering/scaling/etc steps even just pirating a stream like that. It is NOT saving the incoming stream itself, it's displaying it and re-making a copy of that display.

This is user error, yes.

I disagree with "user error". As noted in the original post, VideoStudio does this just fine at 30 fps. So did VLC. The other response suggests a Windows 7 issue. Again, why does it work in VideoStudio and VLC?