Haven't ultimately tried it yet, but I recently set up a new 1440p 165hz monitor that I am going to use, but I want to stream at 1080p while playing at 1440p. I am on single PC setup, but I have seen plenty of people say that this is easily doable. When setting it up I noticed that one one of my scenes where I have a display capture source, and it was incredibly laggy and im guessing that they display capture was still at 1440p and thats what was causing the lag. If I set the game capture or window capture to 1080p outscale, will I be good? Will it looks distorted when playing 1440 and outscaling to 1080p? Any help or advice is welcome!
Playing in 1440p/streaming and recording in 1080p
- Thread starter ItzSteele
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koala
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I'm not sure what you mean with "outscale", but the common workflow for playing in 1440p while streaming & recording in 1080p is to go to settings->Video and set Base (Canvas) Resolution to 2560x1440 and set Output (Scaled) Resolution to 1920x1080. This way the game (and everything else you capture) will be captured and composited at 2560x1440, then internally rescaled to 1920x1080 and output to the encoder.
Don't enter the output resolution in Settings->Output->Recording/Streaming->Rescale output but leave this unchecked - rescaling here is a huge resource hog.
However, if you want to record to 1440p and only stream to 1080p, so 2 different output resolutions at the same time, you have to rescale with that option. In this case, you need to enter settings->video->Output resolution to 2560x1440 and in settings->output->streaming->rescale output set the resolution 1920x1080. In the recording tab, leave this option unchecked. This configuration variant is very resource heavy and might overload your hardware.
Don't enter the output resolution in Settings->Output->Recording/Streaming->Rescale output but leave this unchecked - rescaling here is a huge resource hog.
However, if you want to record to 1440p and only stream to 1080p, so 2 different output resolutions at the same time, you have to rescale with that option. In this case, you need to enter settings->video->Output resolution to 2560x1440 and in settings->output->streaming->rescale output set the resolution 1920x1080. In the recording tab, leave this option unchecked. This configuration variant is very resource heavy and might overload your hardware.
sorry- I meant "outscaling" as output. Made sense in my head lol.
but as far as the display capture goes, dont use that because it uses the rez that your monitor is set to? Im guessing it was lagging because I had my outscale set to 1080p and bitrate set to 5000, and the display of my monitor was set to 1440p.
Thank you so much for the information thou! I will definitely make sure that my base canvas is set to 1440p and my outscale is set to 1080p.
but as far as the display capture goes, dont use that because it uses the rez that your monitor is set to? Im guessing it was lagging because I had my outscale set to 1080p and bitrate set to 5000, and the display of my monitor was set to 1440p.
Thank you so much for the information thou! I will definitely make sure that my base canvas is set to 1440p and my outscale is set to 1080p.