Question / Help Low Settings Help?

[CDT Gaming]

I want to lower my settings a lot on OBS. I know the quality will suffer, but that doesn't bother me very much. I'm worried I may mess things up changing them on my own, and as of yet I haven't found a helpful thing on this website (DO NOT link the high quality recordings post, that is not what I'm looking for) Can someone help?

 

[Darkskeleton]

Are you trying to reduce the amount of data that's going out to Twitch.tv / YouTube so that the connection stays green or to reduce the load of OBS on your computer hardware?

 

[CDT Gaming]

Are you trying to reduce the amount of data that's going out to Twitch.tv / YouTube so that the connection stays green or to reduce the load of OBS on your computer hardware?

I'm trying to reduce the load for local recording. I don't stream as of now so that's not an issue

 

[Darkskeleton]

Ah I see. I'm not sure if there are settings within OBS for that. Usually it's the game that is taking up most of the system resources since OBS is quite lightweight (much more so than something like FRAPS). I would try to tone down the settings in your game itself if you're running into choppy FPS / lag in your video. Beyond that doing whatever you can to speed up your system in general would be a good bet. Try opening up task manager while your doing a test recording and see if the RAM is capping out since that can be a serious issue.

One thing I do for games like ARK: Survival evolved is just to run the game on Linux instead of Windows. Since Windows is a system resource hog, the game plays much smoother on Linux for me since more RAM is freed up. Sorry I couldn't give you a direct answer but maybe some of what I just mentioned will help, hardware upgrades may be a resort - if you have extra slots for RAM, then adding more in should be fairly cheap.

 

[FerretBomb]

Here you go.
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/

If you don't read and follow the guide, we can't help you.
That guide is linked often as it provides the lowest system-impact while also providing the best quality video that can be captured.

As noted in the guide, you can set the encoder preset to Ultrafast (making CPU usage minimal) and unlock the bitrate to compensate for the worse-quality encoding. Minimizes system impact while recording, but creates much larger video files which can later be re-encoded with a more efficient preset to get the size down if you intend to keep the videos for archival purposes.

Doesn't work for streaming, but as you're just recording, it should work great. Now read it, and follow the directions.

 

[CDT Gaming]

Here you go.
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/

If you don't read and follow the guide, we can't help you.
That guide is linked often as it provides the lowest system-impact while also providing the best quality video that can be captured.

As noted in the guide, you can set the encoder preset to Ultrafast (making CPU usage minimal) and unlock the bitrate to compensate for the worse-quality encoding. Minimizes system impact while recording, but creates much larger video files which can later be re-encoded with a more efficient preset to get the size down if you intend to keep the videos for archival purposes.

Doesn't work for streaming, but as you're just recording, it should work great. Now read it, and follow the directions.

I've done that already. And it didn't work. And besides, I specifically said not to link that guide. I'm not looking for a high quality recording, I'm just looking for a recording. I have the settings as they are from the guide.

 

[FerretBomb]

Then if you followed the guide completely, there isn't much else that can be done. The settings if you follow the complete guide are as low-impact as it is possible to set OBS up to record with, and can allow even an older i3 or low-end AMD system to record at 1080p@60fps locally. Most who 'follow the guide' and still have significant system impact while locally-recording did not actually follow the entire guide, and only did some of the steps.