Any possibility of using NVENC with outdated drivers?

[Katzenwerfer]

I've had to roll back to a very old driver due to graphical issues that haven't been fixed as of now. I'm in the process of reporting it to NVIDIA, but in the meantime, I wonder if it's possible to force OBS to allow NVENC usage since it doesn't seem to like how outdated it is.

23:25:10.361: [NVENC] Test process failed: outdated_driver
23:25:10.362: NVENC not supported
23:25:10.362: Failed to initialize module 'obs-nvenc.dll'

For the record, I'm using 531.29.

 

[rockbottom]

Sure you don't have a conflict?

551.76 or better required, see link. You may need to go back to OBS 27 or 28 to get to a version that will work with driver 531.29.

Not sure what GPU you have but 566.36 works great with the 3000 series

Releases · obsproject/obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

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[Katzenwerfer]

Sure you don't have a conflict?

Not sure what you mean by that. Conflict as in what?

You may need to go back to OBS 27 or 28 to get to a version that will work with driver 531.29.

Oh, that's a shame. I think I might abstain from recording for now.

Not sure what GPU you have but 566.36 works great with the 3000 series

Got a laptop, 4070 mobile. I would love to use a newer driver version, but I've narrowed it down to the one I mentioned previously being the last one without issues.

 

[rockbottom]

Driver conflict.

Na, there's plenty of drivers available past 551.76 that are A-OK. I already mentioned (1) of them that is nice and super stable.

Drivers in the 570's-583ish range were sh!t & caused many issues. For the most part later releases have been better/stable until the most recent releases.