Question / Help Open Broadcaster Being Finicky

[ThatAnthroGamer]

Alright. So, I downloaded OBS to start doing more serious things with it, right? I go into settings to come across some very flexible options for encoding and stuff. I've looked up countless times for optimal settings but I keep getting nowhere when I either preview the stream or record -- it's either too pixilated or too laggy for me to work with. I've tried the option to use my video card, but it crashes every time I try to edit or fast forward the recording using my card. I want a sharp, clear image, but my setup can't seem to catch up...

Here are the specs...
ASUS M4A88T-M LE
8 GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 750 2GB Graphics Card
AMD 880G Chipset

If anyone can recommend an upgrade or some optimal settings I'm looking for, that'd be great.

 

[Harold]

For recording?
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.12600/
https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...ty-recording-and-multiple-audio-tracks.33030/

 

[ThatAnthroGamer]

This helped. Thanks. But now the problem is the sound won't record even though the Desktop Audio and Mic/Aux levels work just fine.

 

[Harold]

What media player are you checking your recordings with?

 

[ThatAnthroGamer]

Any at my disposal. I'm using Windows 10, so I use Windows Media Player as well as Movies & TV.

 

[Harold]

So the same media player twice.
Both have horrid media format support.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

 

[ThatAnthroGamer]

What the heck, that worked?? Well, thanks a bunch. I'll update you on anything else that goes wrong.

 

[FerretBomb]

Yep, WMP (and Movies & TV, which is just WMP) sucks on codec support. Completely.
VLC works much better, and actually supports a reasonable codec set.