Question / Help 35 minute video recording has only 7 frames

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k2sync

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I've used OBS and it worked OK before. I know basic details like "don't save as .mp4", etc. but recently I attempted to record a video for a speedpaint and the result is a laggy beginning (I'm used to that), followed by 7 frames. Across the entire video. 2 of them last 10 minutes.

The studio was pretty responsive and absolutely nothing was lagging, so I didn't notice this is what happened until after I spent 2 hours rendering a sped up version.

https://obsproject.com/logs/NI2sRQUvIl2DM8J1

I can't read log files that well, but apparently 99% of the framerate dropped.
 
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FiftyTifty

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Just to make doubly sure, if you run the game in an intensive scene, then alt-tab while OBS is still recording, does the framerate in the recording look normal (i.e, at the same framerate you get in-game)? If so, I've the same issue; OBS worked just fine before, but recently on Windows 10, OBS is completely borked.

It's not a GPU issue, otherwise, the recording would still only show a single frame when alt-tabbed. That doesn't happen, alt-tabbing causes OBS to record the game fabulously. But when you alt-tab back in, OBS suddenly uses 50-60% of the GPU, fighting the game for the resources and forever losing.
 
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k2sync

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I've already said that it's for a speedpaint, not a game. There is no "framerate", its just an art program. I have 2 monitors, OBS constantly displays a perfectly normal reflection of the screen with no lagging, computer wasn't lagging, everything ran perfectly fine with zero issue. The video just didn't render any frames.

The art software I was using wasn't using up much resources, either. I've actually used OBS to record 1hour of footage of me drawing without issue before.
 
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Xephor

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Not exactly sure. As you pointed out, both of the times you recorded with OBS it dropped 99.9% of the frames.

Have you changed anything from the last time you recorded? If you haven't, try upping your h.264 preset to something faster.
 
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k2sync

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Well
1. I went from window recording to screen recording; I was trying to show my art process, which needed to show menus, which OBS doesn't pick up.
2. I got a screen tablet that's a lot bigger than my monitor, and is set to 150% zoom; I had to adjust the DPI to fix the cursor losing alignment, but I don't remember what it is I did.
 
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