Can I record 1080p material if my monitor's max resolution is 1680x1050?

[rocco123]

Hi, so say I want to record League of Leguends gameplay at 1080p and save locally. Im using OBS because Bandicam for some reason crashes when I choose H264 or X264, so I wouldn need to record in XVid but I think it's not worth it in 2015 when 264 makes videos look better and weight less as far as I know (even if Youtube re-compresses it i've seen some tests and 264 looked better).

Anyway I have configured it for high settings following this video (I have selected 60 fps tho because now Youtube supports it and this video is from 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9_Z2wrpHiA

But then I realized my monitor is 16:10 so my max resolution is 1680x1050

My question is if through some magic rescaling stuff I could get away with recording the video in 1080p with good resolution, or is better that I stay at 720p until I can afford a new monitor that supports 1080p?

My GPU is an AMD HD7850 the Twin Fozr one by MSI, it's pretty decent. I have been told it has some magic stuff called dynamic resolution that would allow for this but im not sure. Also I want to record the gameplay as smooth as possible ideally at 60fps so im scared such method would take extra performance making the game not as smooth.

I could record at my native 1680x1050 res and then reescale it but im sure it will screw up the aspect ratio or something so I would rather have 720p with 1:1 image aspect ratio... I can't do much more cause I can't afford buying a new monitor. I should have bought a 16:9 back then but I wanted 120hz and the Samsung 2233rz was the only one that had it back then.

Thanks

[Krispy Kritter]

Unless I'm mistaken, it will record at whatever resolution you have the game set. So if you have the game set to 1920x1080, it should record that resolution.

[johns0]

You can't set your game resolution to 1920x1080 if your monitor only goes up to 1680x1050 unless your monitor lets it overscan.