Question / Help OBS and Dxtory

[Menny]

So for the games that don't work with game capture, I like to use Dxtory's directshow output option. I use FXAA/Post processing overlays on certain games and game capture seems to not like that. Dxtory works but I'm just wondering how scaling works when using it.

Let's say I want to stream in 720p. My current settings in OBS are 1080p monitor resolution with a 1.5x downscale(720p), now if I select 720p as output resolution in Dxtory, is OBS going to apply the downscale again resulting in 480p? To get a 720p stream should I select 1080p as output in Dxtory? Or rather keep 720p in Dxtory and turn off OBS' downscaling option?

If anyone can clear this up for me, that would be great.

 

[hilalpro]

if you downscale to 720 on dxtory the source will fit perfectly on obs's scene if the scene is downscaled to 720 aswell.

 

[Bensam123]

I use DXtory, just have it output to OBS in it's native format and then downsample it in OBS.

If you have DXtory downsample, the source to OBS will be downsampled and stretched to whatever the native resolution is in OBS. Then if you have OBS downsample again, it'll further compress that stream, which will probably result in it looking worse (it wont be 480p, but it'll still look worse). If you want to downsample with DXtory, I'd suggest lowering the native resolution in OBS to whatever the DXtory downsample is (like 720p), then stream at that native resolution. I don't know why you'd want to downsample with DXtory over OBS though.

Thinking about this more, downsampling with DXtory may reduce the processor hit from simply capturing... I never thought about streaming like that and I don't know what sort of performance increase/decrease it would give.