Question / Help OBS Local Recordings Freezing
I didn't think OBS needed a lot of room for the GPU OR the CPU.
So basically I have to handicap my powerful 1070's performance to properly record a screen. Makes sense.
Narcogen
Active Member
No, you need to allow for OBS to use it. OBS needs GPU to render the frame you're capturing, and then either CPU to compress that frame (if you're using x264) or access to the hardware encoder on the Nvidia card if you're using NVENC.
For any game capable of using all of your GPU's capacity, you'll never be able to stream it at the same quality as you could play it without streaming, since OBS needs some of your computer's resources to work.
1080p60 streaming is challenging for any rig. Trying to also play at a higher refresh rate than you're capturing makes it harder, and playing at a frame rate that isn't an even multiple of your capture rate can also cause problems.
If you're just doing recording, have you tried Shadowplay? I'm guessing they have some ability there to ensure that the game and the capture program share the GPU without competing, given that the devs control both bits of software in that situation. (It's been awhile since I used it, though, so I don't know for certain.)
Harold
Active Member
What refresh rate is your display?
What framerates are you getting in game?
How much more FPS than your refresh rate are you actually getting?
When you exceed the refresh rate of your display by a significant amount, it doesn't matter how powerful your video card is, you're wasting power and heat on the video card trying to render frames you will NEVER see.
What framerates are you getting in game?
How much more FPS than your refresh rate are you actually getting?
When you exceed the refresh rate of your display by a significant amount, it doesn't matter how powerful your video card is, you're wasting power and heat on the video card trying to render frames you will NEVER see.
144hz
between 100-120
I'm getting fewer FPS than my refresh rate, because it's a laptop GPU and CPU, so the performance is handicapped.