Hello,
opening this topic just to make sure I'm doing everything right with my recording settings before I finally start recording seriously, and would really appreciate it if someone could take a look at my settings and give me a heads up if something is wrong.
I recently bought a new pc and have been experimenting a lot with OBS as my primary recording software. I am currently recording at 1920x1080 60 fps (so things don't look stretched and pixely when I fullscreen the video), and the recordings are looking really good
I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. I attached screenshots of my settings. I didn't change too much from the default settings:
1st screenshot (OBS Profile): In the OBS Profile, I selected Display Capture (aka Monitor Capture) as a source for the PC98 games because Game Capture was only recording a black screen (for the Windows games I'm using Game Capture and it works fine). When using Display Capture I am also disabling Aero because I've read that it's better to do so with OBS:
https://jp9000.github.io/OBS/general/whatcapture.htmlhttps://jp9000.github.io/OBS/settings/videosettings.htmlAnyone know why Aero does not work well with Display Capture? Is this really required? Does this have any negative effect on the games?
2nd screenshot (General Settings): I didn't change anything in this tab.
3rd screenshot (Output): Ignore the Streaming part at the top, I only plan on recording, not streaming. Under Recording, I only changed the location where the file will be saved (to a separate 7200rpm hdd solely for recording onto), and I changed the Encoder to low CPU usage preset. I noticed lesser slowdown %s at the results screen (in the Touhou games) with the encoder set to this setting but please correct me if I'm wrong or if it has nothing to do with it.
4th screenshot (Audio): I didn't change anything here.
5th screenshot (Video): I set the Base Resolution to 640x480 (since Touhou plays at that resolution), and Output Resolution to 1920x1080. I changed the Downscale Filter from 16 to 32 samples. I also set FPS to 60. I only Disable Aero for the PC98 games, this is unticked when I'm playing the Windows games or Danmakufu.
6th screenshot (Advanced): I didn't change anything here.
Can someone please take a look and see if I'm doing everything right?
I was planning to record my replays instead of live runs (for the games that support replays). Will I have any trouble doing this or something I should be aware of? Example, I heard that in Danmakufu sometimes the audio de-syncs so for that I won't risk it and just capture a live run, but will I be ok capturing the replay for the official games or will there be differences from the live run? I plan on also capturing the official games on Ultra (in time, when the skill level improves to that level haha) so clarification on that would be awesome as well if anyone knows or if the replays end up broken
I only have 2 issues with OBS:
1. The recordings look fine for the official Touhou games, but for Danmakufu recordings, it hiccups every minute or so. Kinda like it skipped a frame for half a second. It's not intolerable, but still deters from the outputted files' overall quality. Anyone know the cause of this? Only happens for Danmakufu, the official games don't do this.
2. Worst thing I found with OBS, Seihou does not record well AT ALL. Both on Display Capture, and Game Capture. The recording comes out really choppy. I found a 'solution' to both these issues, I gave FRAPS and Dxtory a shot, and both of them capture both Danmakufu and Seihou very well, no hiccups or lags, only trouble is, the outputted file is still being kept at 640x480, not getting upscaled to the nice 1920x1080 image that OBS is offering. Seeing other runs on YouTube, there are several Danmakufu videos at 720p, so I'm sure this could be done, I just can't figure out how. . . Preferable with FRAPS over Dxtory cause Dxtory was outputting 9GB for 3 mins! x_X Not even OBS recording at full hd comes close to that file size.
Thanking any patient souls for any help and confirmations
and sorry for the long post :/ Didn't think this question was gonna turn out so long. . .
