Question / Help Problem when trying to record Smite.

[Aliminatora]

Ok so my problem is when i try to record smite everything seems fine when i play the game and don't get that much of a lag but on OBS it shows and at the end when i see the video it shows frame skipping.
So now I will show you my settings for OBS and what i think is the log file for these settings:


And btw my screen resolution is 1366x768 but I run smite on 1280x720 Borderless Window and record via Game Capture.
So that's all. I hope there's a solution ><

 

[Jack0r]

Hey there,
I quickly checked through your settings and they look just fine, but I noticed your graphics card might be a bit underpowered. Smite will probably already use the gpu up to 100% so OBS will have a hard time copying each frame to start using it for streaming.

You could test, if you set Smite to Low Quality in your video settings (world/texture/shadow detail) and maybe even lower your resolution quite a bit. Then test with OBS again.
Of course you can also check the load your GPU has to take, for example with "GPU-Z" (http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/) on its Sensors tab, it will show you the GPU Load. If this reaches 100% while smite is running or with OBS together, this would explain the "taking too long to encode".

Your current graphics card has a benchmark score of 814, if you can upgrade your System (assuming you are not on a laptop), you could for example get a GTX 650 for around 100€ which would get you a benchmark score of 1828 or a Radeon HD 7770 with a score of 2157. You could of course invest more money but these 2 should already be able to run smite and obs at the same time.
To give you one more information about your GPU, in a top notch system you at the moment would use a GeForce GTX 780 Ti with a passmark score of 8517, so just about 10x the power of your current gpu. This graphics card would of course cost alot more and would also need a new PSU and maybe more upgrades, so this is just an Info to help understand the indefferences in the current graphics card market.

Overall, if lowering the graphics settings in Smite does not help and neither lowering its resolution, there is unfortunately not you can do except for upgrading :/

 

[Aliminatora]

Thanks for the replay and your time I appreciate it. About the lowering the graphics... well i will try it and if doesn't work i will save money for a new one... we will see. Btw I know that this is not associated with the subject but I have seen a lot of people using 2 or even 3 monitors and I want to ask you if it's useful to have that many? I'm just curios because i deal with video editing and programming.
Well thanks again for your replay :)


Edit1: I saw the graphics card (geforce gtx 650) and I like it very much but I want to ask will it be compatible with my motherboard - http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/G41M-VS3/
(Graphics - Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500
- Pixel Shader 4.0, DirectX 10
- Max. shared memory 1759MB*
- Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 2048x1536 @ 75Hz

*The shared memory size is dynamically controlled by VGA driver, and the Max. shared memory size will be available only when more than 4GB memory is installed under 64-bit OS.)


Edit2: I tried Smite with lower graphics while running OBS and recording at that moment I was looking at GPU-Z and it was showing GPU Load was at 40-50 % sometimes it went to 70 or 30 % but i got the frame skipping again ><

 

[Jack0r]

To your first question, I could not live without a second monitor anymore ;) It of course depends if you can utilize it, but I never had a problem with that. For example you can move a chat window / media player or lesser used stuff to the secondary monitor while keeping the important video editing or programming tools on the main monitor.

To your second question, the important thing in this case is your motherboards connector for the GPU which is noted as:
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot
Now the Geforce can utilize up to PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots but it should also work in a first generation slot. One more thing you should check is that your PSU has at least 400W according to the nvidia specifications:
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop ... ifications
And the PSU has to have one 6-pin Power Connector to connect to the graphics card and supply it with enough energy :)

Last but not least, you might wanna think about upgrading your cpu/mainboard as well. Seeing that you are on a 775 Socket system you could definitely increase your Systems performance by a big margin.

Edit: Saw your last edit, hmm it could also be a mix of your GPU/CPU that causes the late frames, which processor are you currently using?

 

[Aliminatora]

Thanks again for the replay. For the processor i'm using Pentium(R) Dual-core CPU E5700 @ 3.00GHz

Edit1: If you have time can you tell me about a so so good motherboard ?

 

[Jack0r]

I recently liked to use this page as a rough guidline if you want to upgade:
http://www.logicalincrements.com/

Now I combined their setups slightly different and marked the choices for you that would of course still work together, in this case I choose a different Mainboard for both PCs as the examples on the page seemed a bit expensive:

I then tried to find a similar desktop setup on newegg, but it seems you can save a bit money if you know how to build them yourself using my choices. But thats of course up to you, you can just use them as guidelines maybe :)