Question / Help Video Adapter greyed out, performance bad

[icy]

Hello, I want to record games, no streaming. I got obs studio and tried it out, although the settings are complicated. The performance was quite bad, even just having obs open on game capture, not recording halved fps. I know its bad because ive tried BB flashback and it barely touched my fps although I dont want to use it because its got 30 fps cap.

Whatever I try to do with obs, the fps is at least halved or more. Ive messed around with all the settings, tried admin 64x, but I dont really know what the settings mean (like bitrate). The other thing is that my video adapter option is greyed out, I have integrated graphics intel and nvidia graphics card, which I set as the card to use for obs in nvidia control panel.

I tried to upload the most recent log file below, and it just churned for 10 minutes.

edit: it worked and now its there twice sorry

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

There is no recording in your logs, pls post full log
but judging from your cpu its slow and may have problems recording. your only option is "x264 low cpu" in simple output mode as you dont have quicksync or nvenc support

im not sure of of it but it looks like obs still runs on your intel card not nvidia
16:56:27.784: Loading up D3D11 on adapter Intel(R) HD Graphics (0)
16:56:28.015: D3D11 loaded sucessfully, feature level used: 40960

 

[icy]

Ok, so I have another log which was made just after I made a recording in Minecraft (sorry only game I have installed), and the performance was MUCH better, idk why, because it still says im using the Intel card in the log. I did however add obs 64x run with nvidia card in nvidia control panel, I think before it was just obs.

The graphics card is still greyed out and I dont know what settings to use. If you could give me any advice that would be very appreciated.

The bottom line is for some reason performance has gotten alot better though. Im sure it could be better aswell.

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

you didnt select "x264 low cpu" in encoder options. if you would there should be this line in your log

[x264 encoder: 'simple_h264_recording'] preset: ultrafast

as for the intel vs nvidia, i dont know, never used dual gpu laptop, maybe update both drivers?

what card is greyed out and where, can u attach screenshot?

 

[Osiris]

You use the NVIDIA control panel to force it to use the NVIDIA gpu.

 

[Harold]

Studio doesn't have the video adapter selection code implemented yet. So that's not related to your issue.

 

[icy]

Ok, so. I dont see a x264 low cpu option. I d

o see CPU usage preset in settings, I had it on superfast now I have it on ultrafast.
Does that mean itll use less cpu? Its confusing.
Idk what the rate control things are or profile / tune settings. I used some settings from a guide on obs. The animation tune option seems to make it a bit faster?
As for NVIDIA control panel, I already did that and it stills says using intel in the log files I think. Both drivers are fully updated.
I attached a screenshot of my output settings and advanced settings.
Thanks for helping me, this is confusing.

Also, about studio not having that code yet, does that mean I should try obs classic? I just thought studio would be faster since its newer.

Edit: Also I made a ton of test recordings with different settings, also closed explorer.exe, gave obs permanent admin run, windows classic, gave obs high priority, etc. Managed to get 50-90 fps running Minecraft as a benchmark with obs running at 60 fps.
Also what fps values do I use (common fps values, integer, or fractional). Cause if I had a game running at 80 fps lets say, wouldnt it be worth it to use integer fps and set that higher to 80 or something.

 

[Simes]

Why do you want to go above 60fps for video? Unless you want to do slo-mo stuff it seems a little pointless.

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

x264 low cpu is in simple mode

 

[icy]

Yeah going over 60 fps is a bit pointless. I am actually intending to do frame by frame playback though coincidentally so getting more fps is better in my case. I'll just play around with the settings.
Idk what can be done about the video adaptor thing, only thing I can think of now is trying obs classic.