ghostravenstorm
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Can the replay buffer be configured to cache to disk instead of RAM? I want to use it as a Shadowplay replacement and I want at most 20 minutes, but I don't have the RAM for a super high bitrate.
Question / Help Replay Buffer - Cache to Disk Instead of RAM?
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ghostravenstorm
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I'm not streaming. I'm recording locally at 50 mbps. RAM is 16 / 32.
ghostravenstorm
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I'm not. Just the replay buffer. That's what I mean by recording because I may not want to keep the last 20 minutes, but if something particularlly interesting happened, I want enough of a buffer leading up to it.
None of this has really answered my question.
None of this has really answered my question.
c3r1c3
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Well if you had supplied a log (as explicitly stated when you join the forums), we might not have had to ask so many questions. In fact we still don't know enough to give you a definitive answer, but I'll bridge the gap with a long write up:
Okay, so you're recording at 50mbits/sec and have 16 Gigs of RAM, but can upgrade to 32?
For the sake of these calculations I'll assume that you have 10 Gigs of memory free:
10GiB*1024=10,240MiB*8=81,920Mbits/50Mbits a sec of recording=1638.4 seconds/60=27 minutes of replay buffer.
If you had 32 Gigs, with 26 Gigs of free memory:
26GiB*1024=26,624MiB*8=212,992Mbits//50Mbits a sec of recording=4,259.84 seconds/60=70.997 minutes of replay buffer.
Now you don't say if you're using Studio or Classic, but I don't think the replay buffer is available in Studio at this time, so that means you're using Classic (which would have been good for you to state upfront, or post a log so we could know).
For me the buffer stops at 1800 seconds regardless of running 32-bit or 64-bit OBS, but as noted above that would be over 27 minutes of replay buffer (actually 30 minutes on the nose).
So what's the issue? Are you using the 32-bit OBS instead of the 64-bit OBS?
Again, we would know if you posted a log as instructed by the READ HERE FIRST post at the top of the forum.
Okay, so you're recording at 50mbits/sec and have 16 Gigs of RAM, but can upgrade to 32?
For the sake of these calculations I'll assume that you have 10 Gigs of memory free:
10GiB*1024=10,240MiB*8=81,920Mbits/50Mbits a sec of recording=1638.4 seconds/60=27 minutes of replay buffer.
If you had 32 Gigs, with 26 Gigs of free memory:
26GiB*1024=26,624MiB*8=212,992Mbits//50Mbits a sec of recording=4,259.84 seconds/60=70.997 minutes of replay buffer.
Now you don't say if you're using Studio or Classic, but I don't think the replay buffer is available in Studio at this time, so that means you're using Classic (which would have been good for you to state upfront, or post a log so we could know).
For me the buffer stops at 1800 seconds regardless of running 32-bit or 64-bit OBS, but as noted above that would be over 27 minutes of replay buffer (actually 30 minutes on the nose).
So what's the issue? Are you using the 32-bit OBS instead of the 64-bit OBS?
Again, we would know if you posted a log as instructed by the READ HERE FIRST post at the top of the forum.