There is a bounty for this game RN. https://www.speedrun.com/forums/tournaments_and_races/0016s

It's Christmas and Santa is feeling generous. Everyone that beats the current WR is able to claim the bounty. It doesn't matter when or where, as long as you beat the current WR time of 3:56.767 before Christmas ends (check turboboard for exact date), you are able to win. Together with Krukar we slapped a $50 bounty on the Slay bells Any% category. Some more details regarding the bounty can be found on the Turboboard bounty website.

Feel free to ask any questions here or join the IHS discord if you are thinking about giving it a shot!

Let me first throw out the things people are looking for when clicking on a thread like this:

• Turning off the 'Psycho visual tuning' option in OBS;
• Make sure you remove any unused scenes and turn off the recording preview;
• Disable Windows 10 Hardware GPU Scheduler;

For me, whenever I open OBS, no matter the game i am trying to record, it always tanks it's performance. I don't have to be recording or streaming; simply having the application open would either consistently or sporadically tank my fps in any game. For example; running COD 1 (released in 2003 if i'm correct), my machine can steadily stay above 1k fps. But when OBS is simply open, it struggles to consistently stay at ~120fps or any fps i would cap the game at. Now there are a lot of different ways we can optimize OBS in order to run it somewhat tailored to your machine, but none of any of the options/configurations it supplies had as much as a difference in practice as the things i mentioned.

For anyone that is interested, here as some threads/forums talking about the issues;

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/huge-fps-drop-in-game-by-simply-having-obs-open.142079/

https://obsproject.com/wiki/How-to-disable-Windows-10-Hardware-GPU-Scheduler

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/game-tanks-in-frame-rate-even-i-way-surpass-the-requirements-when-i-try-to-stream-it.148366/

Hope it helps anyone dealing with the same problems! Please correct me on any misinformation if there is any. I am by no means an expert on any of this.

Together with the amazing moderator of Turbo Board, we set up a bounty of $200 for simply completing the game on the hardest difficulty.

Check out the official bounty for all the information you need!

https://turboboard.io/bounty/RO7SAma9kLsSs_EV6HLrL

Edit; Link to the Runers discord channel; https://discord.gg/SWTKW8DNWt

I first try every WR i swear