Question / Help Screen Freezes In Recordings On My Gaming Laptop

[Dawty]

I have a gaming Laptop - Asus, and I'm trying to start recording videos (no streaming at all) while I wait to upgrade to a gaming desktop. I thought I had OBS figured decently after checking out some tutorials, but I'm noticing screen freezes even when trying to record at 720p and 30 FPS.

Here is my log file -

https://obsproject.com/logs/LTwMV8KVPkJJKTnm

 

[Sukiyucky]

Your running on a weak laptop. The components are not considered gaming performance today.

A i5-6300HQ is a weak CPU. A Nvidia 960M is a weak GPU as well. Its really meant for rendering the Windows GUI, and low, if any animated scenes. So don't expect much from your laptop, especially when running OBS on it.

To improve the experience, try in this order:

1) Update Windows (yours is running an old version)

2) Update Nvidia drivers with GeForce Experience

3) Get rid of junk on the drive and defragment

4) OBS Video Settings:
Base: 1920x1080
Output: 1280x720
Downscale filter: Lanczos or Bicubic
Common FPS Values: 30

5) OBS Output Settings:
Output Mode: Simple
Recording Section
Recording Quality High Quality
Recording Format: flv, mp4 or mkv

6) OBS Output Settings
Sample Rate: 44.1khz

 

[Dawty]

Your running on a weak laptop. The components are not considered gaming performance today.

A i5-6300HQ is a weak CPU. A Nvidia 960M is a weak GPU as well. Its really meant for rendering the Windows GUI, and low, if any animated scenes. So don't expect much from your laptop, especially when running OBS on it.

To improve the experience, try in this order:

1) Update Windows (yours is running an old version)

2) Update Nvidia drivers with GeForce Experience

3) Get rid of junk on the drive and defragment

4) OBS Video Settings:
Base: 1920x1080
Output: 1280x720
Downscale filter: Lanczos or Bicubic
Common FPS Values: 30

5) OBS Output Settings:
Output Mode: Simple
Recording Section
Recording Quality High Quality
Recording Format: flv, mp4 or mkv

6) OBS Output Settings
Sample Rate: 44.1khz

Thanks. I think it went much better this time around although I had to reduce the base back down to 720p.

https://obsproject.com/logs/VdSO1-23Tq9hzHuv

 

[Sukiyucky]

Ok. That pretty much confirms your laptop is weak compared to today's computing hardware standards. Until you get a stronger system, 720p is your base and output target with lean settings. If you start seeing stutter, lag, etc. then you'll have to turn down in game video settings to be very low and possibly even have to use the new NVENC encoder.

So just be aware of that if you run into future problems. At least this way you know where things stand and can monkey around to try to make it work a little better (but with limitations).

Have fun!