Question / Help Quick sync does not work

Vakken

Vakken

New Member
I enabled quick sync in bios, installed latest drivers via update utility, still cant enable quick sync it's grayed out.


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Hello,
i use OBS to record my gaming videos. I recored something then i realized the quality was awful, so i used the settings from this thread: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/recording-with-obs-videos-seems-to-be-blurry.17614/. The effect was a ingame framerate drop from 60 to 5. I couldn't play but i wish to record from this game. Is there any way to fix this?
Besides using the settings from thread above in my configuration there is a small window showing live feed from the other monitor (minimap). I do not use OBS for streams, only for recording.

If you want screenshot of my scene or my settings just say.
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HARDWARE

intel core i5 4460
Sapphire Radeon R290x
2TB WD Green for my recordings + system on different partition
Asrock h97 pro4
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My logs:
Code: 
https://gist.github.com/0c62a9274ce2fa2fd367
 
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Sapiens

Sapiens

Forum Moderator
The problem is that your CPU is going to be more or less maxed out running BF4, that game in particular is extremely demanding. Trying to record 1080p60 video with your CPU handling the encoding isn't going to work well. If you just want to record locally use Quick Sync instead.
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

Forum Moderator
Please just make a normal reply instead of continuing to edit your original post. It makes it very hard to follow a discussion when the posts are out of order.

Install the drivers from here, reboot and see if you're able to select Quick Sync as your encoder.
 
TehGuyz

TehGuyz

Member
Vakken said:
I enabled quick sync in bios, installed latest drivers via update utility, still cant enable quick sync it's grayed out.
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Aye, I had to hook up a "virtual display" to it before QuickSync worked..

  1. Right click desktop -> Screen Resolution
  2. hit the Detect button on the window that pops up
  3. click the new display thing that pops up
  4. bottom list -> Try to Connect on VGA
  5. extend your desktop to that display

should work then, I believe
 
TehGuyz

TehGuyz

Member
Sapiens said:
The virtual display thing is mainly for Windows 7 users, it shouldn't be necessary in 8.
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You know, I went back and looked at my stuff and it's still not greyed out after I had disconnected the display.. Which is odd cause I couldn't select it to begin with without doing all that stuff. Either way, I'm not touching those buttons.

I guess what I posted above can be discarded, then
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
To my experience (its unfortunately not safe knowledge) it depends on 3 factors:
quicksync generation
motherboard support
windows support

An i5-2500k needs a fake monitor or real monitor connected to the igpu to work (tested on 2 different boards and under 7 and 8). The i7-4770 in my other pc can run quicksync without another monitor (headless) under 8.
Only thing I could find about win7 is that it does not support headless, but again, its not safe knowledge :/

In the end, similar to nvenc, even the intel graphics driver tends to be a problem from time to time, breaking things out of nowhere.
 
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