Question / Help Why is it that OBS works....

[Zuull]

...with the game Thief while Mantle is enabled (on the game with game capture) but won't work with BF4 in the same way? And although this might have been asked (I tried searching and haven't found any recent posts), when can we use mantle with game capture in OBS? I know it's possible seeing as how xSplit can do it.

 

[Krazy]

Game Capture shouldn't be working at all with Mantle. If it works with Thief then there is something weird with Thief. XSplit's Game Source works very different from Game Capture (and doesn't tend to perform near as well) so it's possible that's why it works, but I sort of doubt it does as no one other than AMD really knows what the hell Mantle is doing.

 

[Lain]

Game capture does not work with mantle. It cannot work with mantle until AMD releases the mantle SDK. If you're using a game capture on a game you think is using mantle, and it's capturing, then it's not actually using mantle to draw.

 

[Zuull]

Yeah I made a mistake and remembered wrong. It doesn't work with Thief mantle either. sorry about that.

 

[Zuull]

And apparently misheard about xSplit and Mantle. My apologies for those but thanks for the answer with the SDK thingy. Wish they'd sorta kinda hurry up with that. With Mantle and BF4, on Ultra settings I'm getting about 100 FPS average (usually more). DirectX on Ultra, lucky if I get 30. HUGE difference! I wanna stream but...I don' t know how well windowed/borderless will allow the game to perform if I were to play that way with Mantle and use monitor capture instead. No idea...I get the impression it wouldn't be very good. I don't know. Frustrating. hahah C'mon AMD! lol

 

[dodgepong]

If you're on Windows 7, then you can use DWM capture for fast monitor capture. If you're on Windows 8, then Monitor capture should be fine. Of course, the game must be running in Windowed/Borderless mode first.