MapleBacon
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Long story short, my R9 380 decided to take a dive this morning (while, of all things, watching twitch) and I had to use a replacement, temporary GPU while waiting for something new.
I figured I'd have to reduce settings as the GPU i have in my machine is quite a bit older, and I have- in my preview window, everything sits at a pretty 30fps at 720p while the CPU runs at 12-15%. However, while attempting to use Twitch Inspector to see how the stream holds up under load, I find out that OBS won't start up at all- even while using the x264 encoder, which is the only one available.
I realize that this GPU is old- it's a Radeon 3450- but is it so old that OBS can't stream with it? Is there some setting that I'm missing, that I could change?
Here's my log file- https://hastebin.com/ulegeqoyek
Theory: It's a directx 10.1 compatible GPU, and OBS is trying to render using Directx 11- is this something that could be fixed? There doesn't seem to be a setting to change that in OBS, probably for good reasons.
I installed the AMF Encoder that was talked about in a stickied thread, but the output still failed. Logfile for that attempt shown here: https://hastebin.com/emuxijujuq
Edit edit: Turns out, this GPU is totally unsupported. I'm going to switch back to using OBS Classic for the time being, unsupported as it may be, it streams just fine using this elderly GPU. Thanks for taking a look at this thread!
I figured I'd have to reduce settings as the GPU i have in my machine is quite a bit older, and I have- in my preview window, everything sits at a pretty 30fps at 720p while the CPU runs at 12-15%. However, while attempting to use Twitch Inspector to see how the stream holds up under load, I find out that OBS won't start up at all- even while using the x264 encoder, which is the only one available.
I realize that this GPU is old- it's a Radeon 3450- but is it so old that OBS can't stream with it? Is there some setting that I'm missing, that I could change?
Here's my log file- https://hastebin.com/ulegeqoyek
Theory: It's a directx 10.1 compatible GPU, and OBS is trying to render using Directx 11- is this something that could be fixed? There doesn't seem to be a setting to change that in OBS, probably for good reasons.
I installed the AMF Encoder that was talked about in a stickied thread, but the output still failed. Logfile for that attempt shown here: https://hastebin.com/emuxijujuq
Edit edit: Turns out, this GPU is totally unsupported. I'm going to switch back to using OBS Classic for the time being, unsupported as it may be, it streams just fine using this elderly GPU. Thanks for taking a look at this thread!
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