So I use OBS for recording and streaming. If I stream from linux I have a problem that occurs when I downscale to 720p: I get an all black screen. If I do anything NOT 1080p the video out seems to be nothing and I don't know why. All sound out is there but this is an issue I have had since I started streaming.
If anyone can help me with this I will be eternally grateful.
I would record and stream at 1080p if it didn't screw my FPS completely but at 1280x720 it doesn't touch the fps seemingly at all. At that I want as many people as possible to be able to watch both my Twitch and YT vids and 720 is what I would like to use because of that.
Edit: I have tried overclocking for better FPS but it doesn't help much. It gives OBS a bit more headroom but barely enough to really count.
Since this is linux I'm assuming you're using OBS multiplatform/studio.. If so have you tried force scaling the game capture to 720p rather than downscaling the entire scene?
I use it like this on windows since it seems to take marginally less CPU having the base scene set to 720p and force scaling the game capture to 720p also rather than having the base resolution set to 1080p and downscaling the entire thing so I would assume the linux version of OBS studio would also be able to..
Will have to look for it!
right click > properties on a game capture source
Oh we don't have game capture as an option. Its more specific as to how you want to cap frames from X than just "Eh, do that sorta" in windows.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that, never used the linux version.. What happens if you just set the base and downscale resolution in the overall video settings to both 720p?
On the old OBS it wouldn't fit game captures properly but I'm fairly sure you can still size game capture to the scene even without that force capture at the correct res, at least again I can do it on windows so it might work?
Are you using Game Capture or Screen Capture?
If Game Capture you'll need to right click it and select the game that's running.
Screen Capture will just get the whole Desktop.
You probably already know this though.
Also, here's some screen shots of my video settings.
Hopefully that helps you.
I may have been doing something stupid. You have to do 2 settings when rescaling for some stupid reason. I'll try now and see whats happening o:
Nope it still doesn't work.
As I said before there isn't a game gapture for me theres screen, window, video device, and media source. NO GAME CAPTURE PERIOD. If someone else has it well happy birthday to you.
As it seems this may just be a broken feature that works for some and not others :I
