OBS Macbook pro M1 Pro, once the app is open all the macbook works super slow

[ansoldado]

Hello, I am new user of OBS and i am experiencing to much lag once I open the application.

I guess the laptop doesn't have any problem I even excute the diagnosis to verify, but even if the OBS show only 7% of CPU usage all the system works super laggy?

Anyone have this problem too??

Thanks!

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

OBS CPU stat indication really isn't all that meaningful. It is overall system usage that is relevant.
Apple's M1/M2 (and soon M3?) chips are NOT performance CPUs. They are low-(electrical) power, battery life optimized systems capable of doing some very specific things very well (performant). But the CPUs are very easy to overwhelm once you get outside the 'walled garden'

So... OBS Studio can work, but you have to be careful. it is easy to follow some YouTube moron's advise, given without context, and completely mess up your installation.
And, you can NOT be a typical MacOS user and ignoring everything you have running in the background.
There are LOTS of threads/discussions on optimizing a computer for under-powered operations.
For you - you need to do general Operating System performance optimizations, and avoidance of unnecessary background tasks
Then, you need to make sure your OBS Studio settings are appropriate for a M1, thermally thottled, laptop. Speaking of which, you need to learn how to detect thermal throttling (make/model specific).
Until you have your system running well, best to avoid OBS' Studio Mode as that = 2X rendering workload.

 

[ansoldado]

I am using M1 Pro, still a laptop but not only focus on save battery.

On the other hand, I tried to check even one stress CPU using OBS and with the stress without OBS i am able to see all the cores working 100%, in the moment that I open OBS even the stress test cannot reach 100% seems OBS is limiting the laptop, weird....

In this screenshot (Maybe not the best) is obvious that the CPU is not having to much load, but if I open chrome it has lag -_-" the CPU wont growth.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

You MUST understand thermal throttling. Until you figure thermal throttling out, the rest of your thought process and conclusions about performance, system utilization, etc will be wrong. period. sorry
you are mis-interpreting the results when you write OBS can't stress/reach 100% CPU, most likely because of thermal throttling

MOST importantly OBS Studio is NOT streamlabs. if you want support from the forked OBS, then you need to contact streamlabs directly