Screen Recording and Screenshare makes system super slow

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I’ve recently switched from Windows to using Manjaro, and one thing I’ve noticed is that when recording in OBS or while screensharing in discord I get a huge performance impact compared to what I did on Windows, which would only bring it down a few frames, whereas on Manjaro I get hit by at least 20fps in games with constant stutters. I’m using a RX-560 card and an i7-960 CPU (yes I know it’s very old). Is there anything I can do about this?

extra info; kernel 57, kde plasma, 24gb ram

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Sounds like OBS is not using your GPU (I believe Discord is Chrome based and Chrome doesn’t bother enabling hardware acceleration on Linux). Can you ensure that first?

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Ah, yikes. OBS wasn’t properly detecting the hardware, so I got that patched up, but it sucks that Discord doesn’t bother using hardware, I used it quite often.

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