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Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-22T21:34:19+02:00

Well, i do have shadowplay working agian on an older version and the framerate is a lot higher in comparison with OBS (1280x720 gets me 60 fps instead of +-20 with obs). The only problem is that it still somehow disables double clicking with my mouse :/

So my question is if anyone else ever had this problem, and if not, which version of geforce experience he has.

(kiss)

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 22 Nov 2016, 21:34

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-18T18:29:29+02:00

My geforce thingy was not bound to any game, i could easy record desctop as well as far as i remember
or even if there was something like that in older version, try to film FA, not FAF

Statistics: Posted by ZLO_RD — 18 Nov 2016, 18:29

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-18T15:40:14+02:00

I use OBS, didn't like shadowplay.

My settings, I'm using Nvidia NVENC for encoding, works nicely and doesn't tax CPU too much.

I'm using windowed fullscreen together with Game Companion 2.4, I'm just recording the window with OBS.

Statistics: Posted by Viba — 18 Nov 2016, 15:40

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-18T03:11:55+02:00

Well, after the recent geforce experience update this week it tells me it doesn't work because FAF is not a supported game xD

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 18 Nov 2016, 03:11

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-17T20:42:03+02:00

Getting shadowplay working is your best option. It's by far the best performing solution you have available with that configuration.

The next option is to disable FAF from all but core 2 and 3 and run the encoding on cores 0 and 1, and obviously the related logical hyperthreaded cores. You can first try that with Process Hacker to see if it helps.
You should be able to get 25fps, 720p, 1500-2000 bitrate video with decent quality with that config but probably want to give up on the 1080p if you can't get shadowplay working.

One thing that you could do is stream the whole thing you want to record to hitbox, youtube, twitch, whatever you prefer. And then you have the whole stream saved online, without needing the hard drive space to store it and the service can deal with the encoding of the video for you.

Statistics: Posted by JoonasTo — 17 Nov 2016, 20:42

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-17T18:05:28+02:00

Yes your cpu probably wont follow with a live transcode in x.264. Cant you register uncompressed (you need lot of storage (on hard drive not energy to OC) and then encode your video.
This way your hard drive will make the job, leaving your cpu for fa. Then encode when you're not playing.

Statistics: Posted by jackherer — 17 Nov 2016, 18:05

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-17T17:38:02+02:00

Streaming is very cpu intensive. As you have a laptop processor, you will get max 5 fps when streaming

Statistics: Posted by TheKoopa — 17 Nov 2016, 17:38

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-17T17:35:05+02:00

JoonasTo wrote:
What settings are you running and what's your hardware?

Also, what is your performance issue exactly? Is your FA lagging because of streaming or is your stream having issues keeping up?

If the quality of the video is different then obviously there is a difference in the setting you have between the two programs, if you can't find any xsplit might have some kind of automatic quality downgrade in case of insufficient processing power?

FA is lagging because of the recording. It gets down to like 10-15 fps as soon as the game starts while i normally have over 60 fps. The quality of the video depends on my resolution settings. If i set it to 1920 x 1080 it is much better but it will also have the highest lag. If i set it lower, like 1280 x 720 (same settings as Xsplit) the quality is just as good but it will still make my game lag.

i7-4720hq @ 2.60GHz
8,00 GB RAM
GTX 960 video card

I think this should be good enough..

ZLO_RD wrote:
i used to use 1100 bitrate with 18 fps for my OBS setting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk7CT7Yqylg
now i switched to use Nvidia shadowplay feeature, it is now simply called "share" now and only availabe on relatively new videocards
now i use 9000 bitrate with 60 fps and have even less lag than with OBS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfZaHvqeCK8

I used much higher settings for OBS since they recommended it . 30 fps and 2500 bitrate. The resolution of 1920 x 1080 is the biggest problem, but when i try to scale it down it really makes the screen look so bad. I've tried shadowplay as well, but when i enabled it it somehow makes it so that i can't double click anymore which was a fucking nightmare. Yesterday I've had a quick look at it, but because of the recent geforce update a lot of people are saying that shadowplay is bugged and doesn't work.

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 17 Nov 2016, 17:35

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-17T15:14:30+02:00

i used to use 1100 bitrate with 18 fps for my OBS setting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk7CT7Yqylg
now i switched to use Nvidia shadowplay feeature, it is now simply called "share" now and only availabe on relatively new videocards
now i use 9000 bitrate with 60 fps and have even less lag than with OBS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfZaHvqeCK8

Statistics: Posted by ZLO_RD — 17 Nov 2016, 15:14

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-17T14:38:09+02:00

What settings are you running and what's your hardware?

Also, what is your performance issue exactly? Is your FA lagging because of streaming or is your stream having issues keeping up?

If the quality of the video is different then obviously there is a difference in the setting you have between the two programs, if you can't find any xsplit might have some kind of automatic quality downgrade in case of insufficient processing power?

Statistics: Posted by JoonasTo — 17 Nov 2016, 14:38

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-17T07:04:07+02:00

Well, i can get obs to work but my laptop can't handle it xD It has a way higher cpu usage than Xsplit even when the settings are the same, and my poor laptop can't handle it

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 17 Nov 2016, 07:04

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-14T17:42:03+02:00

https://www.youtube.com/user/SCSoSoul

If i'll get disikes on everything i know who it is

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 14 Nov 2016, 17:42

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-14T12:54:02+02:00

Link to your channel?

Statistics: Posted by Tokyto — 14 Nov 2016, 12:54

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-14T10:07:23+02:00

Thx. I'll try it after my beauty sleep

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 14 Nov 2016, 10:07

Re: OBS black screen of death

2016-11-14T09:46:36+02:00

from my small experience different people had different issues.
Try turning "Windows Aero" OFF (or on, if it was off)
try simply re-add source after that just in case

that is what helped me defeat black screen, turning off aero on PC made it work, and turning on aero on laptop made it work... it is reallly weird and maybe i am missing something...

also make sure to add game source and not always record desctop source.
also check if it works in windowed / fullscreen, try switching around at least once

Statistics: Posted by ZLO_RD — 14 Nov 2016, 09:46