obs-nvfbc VS obs-vkcapture

Get obs-nvfbc: https://gitlab.com/fzwoch/obs-nvfbc

This fix is only interesting to those who use NvFBC to record your desktop. For example Steam uses it for Remote Play and you can use it with OBS when using obs-nvfbc plugin and patched driver files.

Yes, OBS for Linux doesn't have that yet. In the meantime, you can try to use a plugin for OBS, called obs-nvfbc. You'll also have to patch your drivers.

NvFBC plugin for OBS: Created because there was no way to do screen-capture on Wayland. Now the author has abandoned this plugin because there's a screen capture API on Wayland which has the same level of performance (NVIDIA implemented the Wayland framebuffer capture API).

By far the most efficient and simplest way without buying extra hardware is using obs-fbc with the nvidia-fbc patch

I'm using the plugin obs-nvfbc with nvidia-patch for high performance capture, but when the OBS is active and NvFBC Source is added to scene, GNOME and any game I open will tear pretty badly but the resulting video recording will be smooth without tearing or stutter. Enabling Force Full Composition Pipeline on nvidia-settings solves the tearing, but then GNOME and any of my games will stutter pretty badly both to my eyes and the recording.

I can't speak for Chrome nor VMWare, but Firefox and OBS have received "Wayland native" screen capturing functionality, through XDG portals and Pipewire, as far as I'm aware.

As a side-note, I've recently discovered a really cool project[0] that enables incredibly fast screen capture for OpenGL and Vulkan applications, mostly tailored to games. Tried it with a bunch of stuff and it works much better than both X's and Pipewire's screen grabbing. I can actually capture videos at my monitor's native refresh rate (144Hz).

[0]: https://github.com/nowrep/obs-vkcapture

Just use this: https://github.com/nowrep/obs-vkcapture

Hello, so I use this OBS plugin obs-vkcapture. I use it as opposed to the built-in Window Capture, because with that option I would keep having to alt-tab back into OBS to select the game I want to record. This plugin is basically the "Game Capture" feature on OBS Windows brought to Linux. It makes it to where I can put a Steam launch option obs-gamecapture %command% and launching the game will make its executable show up in the Game Capture source, so I can just press record on move on, no more opening OBS to select the game's window and risk nuking it when alt-tabbing. It is much more performance efficient and it's a package/patch that is included in GloriousEggroll's Nobara distro's build of OBS as well. I however use it on Arch from the AUR, it's the only AUR package I use in fact.

I was using https://github.com/nowrep/obs-vkcapture but I also had Proton-GE 7-49

Back in december when I tried I had some success using this https://github.com/nowrep/obs-vkcapture

Additionally, I'd like to use Game Capture in OBS if possible via obs-vkcapture. If using this with gamescope, where do I actually put the variable or obs-gamecapture command? Does it wrap the entire gamescope command, or does it get wrapped by gamescope?

I think you mean obs-vkcapture-git. It lets you capture a window through Vulkan. Here is also its github repo for more informations.

I have spent a few hours trying all kinds of dependencies on Fedora 36 Workstation trying to get obs-vkcapture to compile. I have found the exact ones and hopefully it helps someone in the future: cmake gcc gcc-c++ obs-studio-devel mesa-libGL-devel vulkan-loader-devel Here is a convenient command to install all at once: sudo dnf install cmake gcc gcc-c++ obs-studio-devel mesa-libGL-devel vulkan-loader-devel