What I don't know is if for some folks simply changing the default Medium process priority would suffice (vs running as admin). And if you do need to, then be careful with 3rd party plug-ins, or Browser source, etc that will also run under admin context and pose security threat to your environment My personal advise would be to avoid running as admin, unless you are in one of the specific categories that needs to. I bought a new PC, with a 5 life expectancy, and plenty of headroom at the moment for how I use it.
Do I run OBS as admin? No, I don't need to. I think and I went back 'n forth on this, and I think it was he who provided some technical background on the priority processing (incl GPU side?) that takes place when running as admin.ĭue to my IT security background, running as admin is something I avoid like the plague (and have since NT4.0 days). Running OBS as admin, from what I gather, is something to do when you have resource contention (including encoding overload), and you want OBS to have priority. Having admin permissions during install has nothing to do with OBS, but is an OS level security measure, and should be required for any/all installs.
