Please help

[MyFinalGame]

I’m trying to record footage on my new rig and it can’t handle it. I have an asus rx580 8gb Gpu, a ryzen 5 1600 6 core Cpu, Corsair vengeance ram 16gb and no ssd. It can barely run obs without looking laggy any suggestions.

[PineyCreek]

Are all your drivers installed, including AMD's chipset drivers?  Tried turning down game or capture settings?

[paddy-stone]

47 minutes ago, MyFinalGame said:

no ssd

That could be your problem, OS running and OBS running on mech HDD and recording footage to mech HDD... all that trying to run on mech/spiining rust is bad IMO. Just get a cheap SSD, can get them for as low as £20/$20 for a 120GB, but not much more for a 240GB really, usually mid 30s or so.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=0&sort=price&page=1

[paddy-stone]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/gH2rxr/team-l3-evo-240gb-25-solid-state-drive-t253le240gtc101

cheapest 240GB I could see at £28

[Agent_Niraj]

16 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

That could be your problem, OS running and OBS running on mech HDD and recording footage to mech HDD... all that trying to run on mech/spiining rust is bad IMO. Just get a cheap SSD, can get them for as low as £20/$20 for a 120GB, but not much more for a 240GB really, usually mid 30s or so.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=0&sort=price&page=1

for me without SSD I can bearly play smooth game with Nvidia shadowplay recording as 1tb HDD and GPU gtx 1050 ti

[Agent_Niraj]

1 hour ago, MyFinalGame said:

I’m trying to record footage on my new rig and it can’t handle it. I have an asus rx580 8gb Gpu, a ryzen 5 1600 6 core Cpu, Corsair vengeance ram 16gb and no ssd. It can barely run obs without looking laggy any suggestions.

I think you should adjust obs video settings to customize.

[MyFinalGame]

48 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

That could be your problem, OS running and OBS running on mech HDD and recording footage to mech HDD... all that trying to run on mech/spiining rust is bad IMO. Just get a cheap SSD, can get them for as low as £20/$20 for a 120GB, but not much more for a 240GB really, usually mid 30s or so.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=0&sort=price&page=1

Thank you just ordered a ssd I figured that might be an issue don’t know why I cheaped out for so long!

[paddy-stone]

8 hours ago, MyFinalGame said:

Thank you just ordered a ssd I figured that might be an issue don’t know why I cheaped out for so long!

No problem, hope that solves the issues

 

[GuybrushCH]

I had a similar issue some times ago, both with OBS Studio and Xsplit. I spent hours trying to figure it out and spent many more hours discussing with Xsplit tech support. Finally the solution was... formatting the boot drive. I never considered getting another SSD because my rig has plenty of pretty darn fast storage. Maybe you could try this before buying new hardware?