OBS & rendering hardware?

[Kc7vwc]

Ok, so a friend has got me interested in game streaming, and while I have a stream working, I'm looking to optimize it.

I'm gaming on an AMD A10-6800K, overclocked slightly, with 24GB (2Gb for GPU) at 1866.

Most games I run at low/medium settings, and at 30-60FPS. But as soon as OBS starts, I'm losing 10-15FPS.

I have an old Radeon 6450 that I'm wondering if there's any way to offload streaming workload to. It sucks for gaming, but it'd be nice to put it to some kind of use.

Everything I've seen about OBS & hardware refers to Intel's Quicksyn & Nvida's shadowplay stuff.

 

Just wondering if it's possible at all before I dig into my machine. (mATX system is really tight)

 

[SkilledRebuilds]

Nope, the 5450 has a decoding engine, but not an encoding engine for capturing AFAIK.

You could 'maybe' use AMD's Game Capture Raptr with little performance hit on your APU. It can stream and capture, however I do not know if its enabled by default once installed.

 

I'd look into that if your currently using the CPU to do so.

[DarkEnergy]

Let me get this straight. You're using an A10 and you wanted 22GB of RAM? Umm.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Let me get this straight. You're using an A10 and you wanted 22GB of RAM? Umm.

There is no Ummm....

 

Most people get advised to 8GB yes, but he may require more for a specific use,...hence he bought more.

[Kc7vwc]

RAM was left over from another system. Wife's is already maxed at 16Gb (Win7) and I'm using 8.1 so just put it all here.

 

As for Raptr, I've tried it & I can't get it to work on my system. I'm either broadcasting a solid green screen (with audio), or my system freezes. (THAT happened just as I was typing this). I've tried disabling 'hardware decoding' on the player, as per someone at Raptr's advice, but still nothing. Not sure if its something with an APU or what.

 

Oh well.