As many of you already know, I'm using OBS for Game Capture however when I set the video resolution setting to that of my monitor as opposed to a custom setting, it doesn't properly apply the setting EVEN THOUGH I have started streaming with the new setting
For example, I had conducted one last test to cut down on the lag by using a CUSTOM resolution of 1024 x 768 (As opposed to 1920 x 1080, both of which my monitor supports as well). This downscaled the video resolution of the stream from 640 x 360 to 350 x xxx (I don't remember exactly what it was now)
Anyhow, after playback of the test stream didn't give me the positive result I was hoping for, I switched back to the monitor (Which DID work before & I was able to confirm this IN STREAM by checking what was being shown (Which WAS NOT a blank screen), restarted the stream & then Alien Arena
To confirm that I was sending video, I waited till I had entered a battle & then went back to see if video was being sent. After seeing that it was, I attempted to return to the game. HOWEVER a glitch caused Windows to not show the CRX rendering engine window for me to click on. I then tried clicking on the desktop icon to see if that would return me to the game. But all that did was provide me with another console window, thus forcing me to choose which one to close. Guess which one I closed.....You guessed it - THE WRONG ONE !!!
Thinking everything was A OK with the stream, I then simply restarted the game. Little did I know till nearly 90 minutes later that OBS had somehow internally switched back to the CUSTOM setting I had just it NOT to use. The end result was nearly 80 minutes of BLANK SCREEN !!!
The failure to remember even the most basic of things like a video setting (And the developer's failure to even add such a feature) has me wondering if this software is even worth keeping. It really does
If OBS can't be programmed to do (What should be) a simple, basic thing like remembering settings, you aren't going to get very many users because NO ONE is going to keep messing around with it (And using their streams as some sort of test lab). Just sayin'
And this claim of "Tens of thousands" of users? Somehow I doubt that because they're all either all computer geeks who work on hardware or are software developers. Neither of which I fall in. I'm just an average end user who knows NOTHING about software development or how to deal with technical issues associated with them. I also pay someone $$$ to fix my computer when it breaks because I don't know how to do that
As I said before, its almost quite clear for me that OBS isn't for me & I'm gonna have to plunck down $$$ to use XSplit to stream my games because I've got better things to do with my time than to double-check to see if a piece of software has remembered previously set settings before I do things with it
Don't get me worked with freebie software before. In fact, I prefer it for shareware & payware. But at least THEY remember any previously configured settings WITHOUT my having to do the work all over again. I can't say that about OBS. Again just sayin'
Cheers :)
PC
For example, I had conducted one last test to cut down on the lag by using a CUSTOM resolution of 1024 x 768 (As opposed to 1920 x 1080, both of which my monitor supports as well). This downscaled the video resolution of the stream from 640 x 360 to 350 x xxx (I don't remember exactly what it was now)
Anyhow, after playback of the test stream didn't give me the positive result I was hoping for, I switched back to the monitor (Which DID work before & I was able to confirm this IN STREAM by checking what was being shown (Which WAS NOT a blank screen), restarted the stream & then Alien Arena
To confirm that I was sending video, I waited till I had entered a battle & then went back to see if video was being sent. After seeing that it was, I attempted to return to the game. HOWEVER a glitch caused Windows to not show the CRX rendering engine window for me to click on. I then tried clicking on the desktop icon to see if that would return me to the game. But all that did was provide me with another console window, thus forcing me to choose which one to close. Guess which one I closed.....You guessed it - THE WRONG ONE !!!
Thinking everything was A OK with the stream, I then simply restarted the game. Little did I know till nearly 90 minutes later that OBS had somehow internally switched back to the CUSTOM setting I had just it NOT to use. The end result was nearly 80 minutes of BLANK SCREEN !!!
The failure to remember even the most basic of things like a video setting (And the developer's failure to even add such a feature) has me wondering if this software is even worth keeping. It really does
If OBS can't be programmed to do (What should be) a simple, basic thing like remembering settings, you aren't going to get very many users because NO ONE is going to keep messing around with it (And using their streams as some sort of test lab). Just sayin'
And this claim of "Tens of thousands" of users? Somehow I doubt that because they're all either all computer geeks who work on hardware or are software developers. Neither of which I fall in. I'm just an average end user who knows NOTHING about software development or how to deal with technical issues associated with them. I also pay someone $$$ to fix my computer when it breaks because I don't know how to do that
As I said before, its almost quite clear for me that OBS isn't for me & I'm gonna have to plunck down $$$ to use XSplit to stream my games because I've got better things to do with my time than to double-check to see if a piece of software has remembered previously set settings before I do things with it
Don't get me worked with freebie software before. In fact, I prefer it for shareware & payware. But at least THEY remember any previously configured settings WITHOUT my having to do the work all over again. I can't say that about OBS. Again just sayin'
Cheers :)
PC
