I am not a streamer, but I like occasionally recording entire playthroughs of some games with friends and having the ability to record moments when playing other times. ShadowPlay gives me exactly that, but has two drawbacks:
1) It can't separate audio tracks.
2) It produces variable frame rate files, which doesn't work right with editing software, requiring me to transcode the files before I can actually do anything with them.
So OBS with Voicemeeter has been been a great solution. With one *major* exception. Both OBS and Voicemeeter prevent my computer from sleeping. OBS I could live with just launching it before I play something, though I like having it always ready so I don't need to think about it. I had it setup to launch at startup with the startreplaybuffer flag, so it was just ready to go. But Voicemeeter is a bigger deal - which I realize this isn't the forum for - because I can't hear anything without it running.
Any advice? Using powercfg to override requests from the devices simply doesn't work. I'm not sure what else I could try. I really like the options this setup provides me, but having my computer awake 24/7 is not a price I'm willing to pay.
1) It can't separate audio tracks.
2) It produces variable frame rate files, which doesn't work right with editing software, requiring me to transcode the files before I can actually do anything with them.
So OBS with Voicemeeter has been been a great solution. With one *major* exception. Both OBS and Voicemeeter prevent my computer from sleeping. OBS I could live with just launching it before I play something, though I like having it always ready so I don't need to think about it. I had it setup to launch at startup with the startreplaybuffer flag, so it was just ready to go. But Voicemeeter is a bigger deal - which I realize this isn't the forum for - because I can't hear anything without it running.
Any advice? Using powercfg to override requests from the devices simply doesn't work. I'm not sure what else I could try. I really like the options this setup provides me, but having my computer awake 24/7 is not a price I'm willing to pay.