Improving hardware for streaming/recording (OBS)

[wako7654]

Hello,

 

Any recommendations on which hardware to upgrade to get better x264 recording performance on OBS? Usually just recording league of legends at 1080p(720p downscale). I still kinda feel that my frames go down in-game below 144fps while i record or should i buy an Nvidia card and go Nvenc? Ideally i want the framerate to be fixed 144fps while playing with no performance impacts

 

Currently have an i7 4770k, R9 290, 16 GB ram.

[HPWebcamAble]

Doesn't the 290 have a hardware encoder? I have no idea, just wondering.

 

If not, that's your next best upgrade, and use that.

[wako7654]

18 minutes ago, HPWebcamAble said:

Doesn't the 290 have a hardware encoder? I have no idea, just wondering.

 

If not, that's your next best upgrade, and use that.

It does, it affects the frame rate a bit though. Like in game i go from like 144 constant to 138-143 variable during recording. I notice it a lot so thinking of how to improve it.

[Suika]

7 minutes ago, wako7654 said:

It does, it affects the frame rate a bit though. Like in game i go from like 144 constant to 138-143 variable during recording. I notice it a lot so thinking of how to improve it.

Do you have any overclocks on that 290? If it's that small of a hit, a moderate OC might overcome it.

[BrightCandle]

As far as I know all Nvidia cards with the hardware encoder have the same capability, they are the same performance. I haven't seen any good testing of the performance differences especially in tools like OBS so I can't really guarantee that NVENC with an Nvidia card would solve your issue.

[Spork829]

15 minutes ago, Suika said:

Do you have any overclocks on that 290? If it's that small of a hit, a moderate OC might overcome it.

Definitely could try that. Also I'm suprised you get a performance hit in league while using x264 with your CPU at all honestly. I can record/stream it on my i5-4460 using x264 with no lag whatsoever (that's at 30FPS though, differs if you're trying to do 60). But yeah, I don't think NVENC will perform a whole lot better than AMD's hardware encoder.

[HPWebcamAble]

1 hour ago, wako7654 said:

It does, it affects the frame rate a bit though. Like in game i go from like 144 constant to 138-143 variable during recording. I notice it a lot so thinking of how to improve it.

Strange. The hardware encoder is a separate chip on the GPU PCB, so it shouldn't change your FPS.

Can you stream with x264 encoding without an FPS hit?

[wako7654]

 

23 hours ago, Spork829 said:

suprised you get a performance hit in league while using x264 with your CPU at all honestly. I can record/stream it on my i5-4460 using x264 with no lag whatsoever (that's at 30FPS though, differs if you're trying to do 60). But yeah, I don't think NVENC will perform a whole lot better than AMD's hardware encoder.

Im doing 60fps, Yeah not sure what it is that's causing it. Performance drop is minimal but negligible is something i want to achieve

[wako7654]

On 6/15/2016 at 0:41 PM, Suika said:

Do you have any overclocks on that 290? If it's that small of a hit, a moderate OC might overcome it.

It's factory OC, weirdly enough it pushes like 200-250fps easy, i have to cap it to 144 because of stutters when its uncapped. So im really wondering why i get a performance hit. Few fps lower but still noticeable

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, wako7654 said:

 

Im doing 60fps, Yeah not sure what it is that's causing it. Performance drop is minimal but negligible is something i want to achieve

yeah I guess it's a matter of figuring out what is actually causing the frame drops and upgrading that. 

[wako7654]

5 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

yeah I guess it's a matter of figuring out what is actually causing the frame drops and upgrading that. 

Running out of ideas actually, storage probably?

[Spork829]

59 minutes ago, wako7654 said:

Running out of ideas actually, storage probably?

Could be? You could upgrade to an SSD just to see if you don't have one. Also I was thinking make sure your frames aren't capped in the AMD software somewhere. Also I guess you could try overclocking the monitor? Really not sure.