Open Broadcaster doesn´t like Octane :(

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PAQUITO
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I´m currently using OBS (Open Broadcaster) for capturing my videos. I want to capture at 60 fps, so I enable the NVENC server as the capture method into OBS, but I´ve found that when trying to capture a working session with Octane, the image freezes (in the captured video, not in the session) and returns after a couple of seconds. This happens when trying to rotate the view into Octane, zooming, or whatever I do involving the graphics card to start rendering.I guess the power of the graphics card goes to Octane 100% then returns to OBS, causing the freeze.
Is there anything I can do to let my graphics card work well with OBS (using the NVENC capture server) while using Octane without any lag like the mentioned above?
AMD FX8350 8 cores. 16GBs RAM
GTX690
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Have you tried turning off the OpenGl viewport in Preferences->Application->Veiwport?
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I´ve just tried that. No luck.
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I also tried to disable one of the two cards (gtx690) in the cuda devices and same results.
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This happens because Octane maxes out the GPU cores and the NvFBC priority is lowered. Unfortunately there's no work around except to use a different capture method. If you're on Windows 8+ I'd recommend looking at DXGI capture, or short of that GDI capture.
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I tested a bunch of programs a while back and use VirtualDub
(OpenSource, CPU, lightweight)

Open the Program
Click File Menu / Capture AVI (brings up a new window)
Click File Menu / Set Capture File (anyname.avi)
Click Device Menu / 0 Screen Capture
Click Capture Menu / <edit any settings>

http://www.virtualdub.org/
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