
In the "target" box, add -startreplaybuffer to the end of the line, after the quotation mark if there is one. Right click the shortcut, open properties

Press Windows Key + R, type in "shell:startup" (this should open a folder named Startup, these programs start when you log in to your computer)Ĭopy/move the shortcut into the startup folder I would suggest just copying the one from your desktop. If you want to have it start on boot, it's pretty simple as well.įind/create a shortcut of your OBS Studio. That's the basic setup for the instant replay, to turn it on you can press the "start replay buffer" button on the main screen. Go to the hotkeys tab on the left, and set something as the Save Replay hotkey. At 10000kbps for 60 seconds, it'll only use 77MB of RAM. The settings that will change it are the bitrate (back in the Recordings tab) and maximum replay time. The estimated memory usage will show, so you can modify it as you wish.

The bottom half is the quality controls, for most people I would suggest a simple CBR (rate control dropdown) at ~10000kbps (in the bitrate textbox) In the recording format, for most people, MKV will be good, but many filetypes are there as well.įor encoder, set it to "NVIDIA NVENC H.264" If you have two NVENC options, choose the one that has (new) on it. Go to the recording tab that should now be there, below the Output Mode dropdown (the instant replay feature uses the same settings for quality as recordings) Go to the output tab on the left, then at the top change the Output Mode to Advanced You can either click the settings button on the bottom right, or go file -> settings Window capture has to be specified a specific window, so will only record that specific game) Game capture will try to capture full screen games, but sometimes won't hook into it right.

(display capture will also capture your desktop, but I've had very minimal issues with it being able to capture every game. On the main screen of OBS, add your source(s), I use a Display Capture, but you could also use a Game Capture or Window Capture. It's pretty simple to set up the basics in OBS, a quick rundown is: A normal setup for 30 seconds or a minute at a reasonable bitrate can use less than 100mb of memory) You could just flip it to shadowplay to stream and use OBS to clip.Īs a note, while shadowplay is constantly writing the clip to your hard drive, OBS stores the clip in memory, so if you're using a particularly long duration and/or high quality, it can use a lot of memory (as an example, mine can use up to 4GB, but I have it set to variable quality with a 40 minute maximum clip duration. I'm not sure if it's a feature in XSplit, but OBS has an instant replay feature.
