Hello,
I am a new user of OBS, switching to it when Geforce Experience Shadowplay started requiring a registration to use, cause #@!@ that. I am using OBS Studio 0.15.2 64-bit.
My System Specs: Intel i5-4960K@4.4Ghz, Gigabyte Z97X-SLI, 16GB Corsair DDR3-2400, EVGA 980GTX SC with latest 368.81 drivers, Seasonic G-650W, 1x Crucial MX500 240GB SSD, 1x WD Caviar Black 1TB HDD, 1x 4TB WD Green HDD, Soundblaster Z, LG IPS 1080p monitor, Blue Snowball mic, Windows 10 Home 64-bit.
I watched a couple of tutorials and I was soon happily recording with my commentary at 1080p@60fps, using NVENC, seemingly without any issues. But when I tried a couple of more demanding games, I noticed a 10-15% decrease in framerates when recording, which is not supposed to happen.
Investigating with MSI Afterburner and GPU-Z, the mystery was soon solved - for some reason when recording, my GPU's memory frequency drops from 3500Mhz (7000 effective) to 3000Mhz (6000 effective). It is a pretty massive drop, having a visible impact on performance, at least on demanding games. Core frequency is not affected, boosted to about 1350Mhz.
The drop happens the very second I use the "start recording" hotkey (I assigned the asterisk * key), and the frequency is restored the very second I stop recording. It has nothing to do with GPU temps which remain in the low 70s, or PSU stability which is rock solid.
The problem remains when recording at a different resolution/framerate, and across different sources (Display, Game, Window Capture).
I relented and returned to Shadowplay, which as it turns out does NOT have this weird problem. But I liked OBS more, especially its mic noise gate filter that made my recordings much clearer, and I would like to return to it.
Is this a bug? Or am I being dense and have simply screwed up something obvious in the OBS settings (not according to the tutorials I saw, but it's not like they were made by university professors).
Thank you for your time.
I am a new user of OBS, switching to it when Geforce Experience Shadowplay started requiring a registration to use, cause #@!@ that. I am using OBS Studio 0.15.2 64-bit.
My System Specs: Intel i5-4960K@4.4Ghz, Gigabyte Z97X-SLI, 16GB Corsair DDR3-2400, EVGA 980GTX SC with latest 368.81 drivers, Seasonic G-650W, 1x Crucial MX500 240GB SSD, 1x WD Caviar Black 1TB HDD, 1x 4TB WD Green HDD, Soundblaster Z, LG IPS 1080p monitor, Blue Snowball mic, Windows 10 Home 64-bit.
I watched a couple of tutorials and I was soon happily recording with my commentary at 1080p@60fps, using NVENC, seemingly without any issues. But when I tried a couple of more demanding games, I noticed a 10-15% decrease in framerates when recording, which is not supposed to happen.
Investigating with MSI Afterburner and GPU-Z, the mystery was soon solved - for some reason when recording, my GPU's memory frequency drops from 3500Mhz (7000 effective) to 3000Mhz (6000 effective). It is a pretty massive drop, having a visible impact on performance, at least on demanding games. Core frequency is not affected, boosted to about 1350Mhz.
The drop happens the very second I use the "start recording" hotkey (I assigned the asterisk * key), and the frequency is restored the very second I stop recording. It has nothing to do with GPU temps which remain in the low 70s, or PSU stability which is rock solid.
The problem remains when recording at a different resolution/framerate, and across different sources (Display, Game, Window Capture).
I relented and returned to Shadowplay, which as it turns out does NOT have this weird problem. But I liked OBS more, especially its mic noise gate filter that made my recordings much clearer, and I would like to return to it.
Is this a bug? Or am I being dense and have simply screwed up something obvious in the OBS settings (not according to the tutorials I saw, but it's not like they were made by university professors).
Thank you for your time.
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