Hi,
I'm looking for some players that can play SC at 1080p60** or greater and also run OBS at the same time in local recording mode with settings explained below for TEST related videos. Most immediate need being volunteers for this week and/or weekend (Sunday) for Combat Flight Leaders training. Here's a quick and dirty recap video I did (yesterday) using OBS local recording (no streaming) at the same time. Fair warning, please turn down your audio a bit, 5 second opener has somewhat loud music.
**(I don't mean SC needs to give you 60fps in PU, I mean windows for the screen you're playing SC on needs to be set to 60hz, so window recording at 60fps is a working option AFAIK)
Here are screenshots with explanations of the OBS settings I use for local recordings.
I play SC in 2160p60 (4K @60fps ) via an i7-6700k and dual 980ti's in SLI mode. But, I never get an actual 60fps in the PU, most of the time I get under 30fps. But OBS will record it smoothly at a 60fps rate because my settings below.
In OBS Output settings I have the following
Since I have Nvidia cards, hardware (NVENC) allows me to record high quality with very little CPU usuage compared to x264 so long as the Video bitrate is high enough. Which is why I set my video bitrate to 8000. I also set my recording path to a folder on a different hard drive than my SC installation. This way recording won't interfere with SC. Audio bit rate I set to 320.
For audio settings
I set audio sample rate to 48khz stereo and also put my mic on the same push to talk button as in discord. This way I get clean audio and only record my voice when I need to speak. This allows for cleaner audio recordings.
For Video settings
Since I'm running SC in 4K, I (in this case) want to record in 1080p60 to have the minimal amount of stress on my pc but have the the best quality 1080p60 I can get from 2160p60. So to do this I set the downscale filter to Lanczos 32 samples and make sure my recording FPS is set to 60 and my output resolution is set to 1080p. If I wanted to record in 4K, I would need to increase my video bitrate in the OUTPUT settings to somewhere between 10,000 to 16,000.
For advanced settings
Here's the fun stuff. So I set OBS priority to above normal to increase it's reliability. Render is set to Direct3D 11. Color Format is set to RGB, since we're not streaming we don't have to use NV12 so RGB or I444 is best option. YUV color space is set to 709, this gives (if your monitor can handle it) a much larger color space for more beautiful / rich colors. To fully utilize this, the YUV color range is set to Full.
And that's it, you don't need any fancy capture cards... just a modern Nvidia card to utilize the NVENC hardware encoding which will allow you to play SC and record at the same time, assuming you're using a decent cpu as well. Modern ATI video cards have their own hardware encoding but quality / colors isn't as good in my opinion.
So if you want to be a volunteer for the love of the art and propaganda, please post here! I need you!
I'm looking for some players that can play SC at 1080p60** or greater and also run OBS at the same time in local recording mode with settings explained below for TEST related videos. Most immediate need being volunteers for this week and/or weekend (Sunday) for Combat Flight Leaders training. Here's a quick and dirty recap video I did (yesterday) using OBS local recording (no streaming) at the same time. Fair warning, please turn down your audio a bit, 5 second opener has somewhat loud music.
**(I don't mean SC needs to give you 60fps in PU, I mean windows for the screen you're playing SC on needs to be set to 60hz, so window recording at 60fps is a working option AFAIK)
Here are screenshots with explanations of the OBS settings I use for local recordings.
I play SC in 2160p60 (4K @60fps ) via an i7-6700k and dual 980ti's in SLI mode. But, I never get an actual 60fps in the PU, most of the time I get under 30fps. But OBS will record it smoothly at a 60fps rate because my settings below.
In OBS Output settings I have the following
Since I have Nvidia cards, hardware (NVENC) allows me to record high quality with very little CPU usuage compared to x264 so long as the Video bitrate is high enough. Which is why I set my video bitrate to 8000. I also set my recording path to a folder on a different hard drive than my SC installation. This way recording won't interfere with SC. Audio bit rate I set to 320.
For audio settings
I set audio sample rate to 48khz stereo and also put my mic on the same push to talk button as in discord. This way I get clean audio and only record my voice when I need to speak. This allows for cleaner audio recordings.
For Video settings
Since I'm running SC in 4K, I (in this case) want to record in 1080p60 to have the minimal amount of stress on my pc but have the the best quality 1080p60 I can get from 2160p60. So to do this I set the downscale filter to Lanczos 32 samples and make sure my recording FPS is set to 60 and my output resolution is set to 1080p. If I wanted to record in 4K, I would need to increase my video bitrate in the OUTPUT settings to somewhere between 10,000 to 16,000.
For advanced settings
Here's the fun stuff. So I set OBS priority to above normal to increase it's reliability. Render is set to Direct3D 11. Color Format is set to RGB, since we're not streaming we don't have to use NV12 so RGB or I444 is best option. YUV color space is set to 709, this gives (if your monitor can handle it) a much larger color space for more beautiful / rich colors. To fully utilize this, the YUV color range is set to Full.
And that's it, you don't need any fancy capture cards... just a modern Nvidia card to utilize the NVENC hardware encoding which will allow you to play SC and record at the same time, assuming you're using a decent cpu as well. Modern ATI video cards have their own hardware encoding but quality / colors isn't as good in my opinion.
So if you want to be a volunteer for the love of the art and propaganda, please post here! I need you!
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