RE: Elgato Opened a Can of Worms ~ It May Be Time To finally upgrade the PC
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Yeah in OBS there should be an option to use your video card. If it's not there then your video card is too old.
If hes just recording a webcam video and mic you dont need much. But if your gaming and recording its alot harder on the machine.
That elgato device may not be compatible with such an old machine. But hard to say.
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I know the Elgato software isn’t LOL I will do a little more digging into OBS settings and see what’s up
OBS is the way to go, but as you pointed it out requires a decent amount of processing power.
What’s funny is this laptop I got for free from work (I had to install ssid and battery) seems to run OBS just fine. We didn’t stream just recorded. It it is a Dell latitude E6530 and has the intel i7 with 8 gb ram. So at least he can get started. Maybe I can score another one??
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Ah yeah that laptop is a few years newer than your desktop so I'd expect it to do a little better..
Normally laptops don't have much performance but since its newer it may work better on OBS.
I don't know how I didn't see this earlier...
That was from 2018!!!
yeah I was afraid of that.. see there are things called "instruction sets" and as new video cards come out they feature new ones. And if you have a very old video card it does not have these newer instruction sets that OBS relies on to render.