Question / Help After local recording in 4K my OBS is now broken.

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Bradenm1

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I wanted to record some games in 4K since I was playing Half-life 2 in 16K I thought I would try up the recording and it went, well, OK. but he video would pause every few seconds. I acknowledged this and turned down my settings while at 4K did not fix it. So, I turned it back to 1080p with the same settings as before, still had the problem. Thought it was my hard-drive so I change my drive I was recording to, did not fix it. I thought it was space. I deleted over 200GB of videos. Still, did not fix it. I reset my OBS to default settings then re-did my settings. Still.... Broken... I even used the default settings for streaming.

People were saying if you have a weak CPU x264 was the cause, I changed it to ultra-fast because I noticed my CPU was always at 100% no matter the settings even if I made the settings so low the video was pixelated it would still pause and use 100% of my CPU. Now I don't think I have a weak CPU but its not the best.

OBS use to ran a lot better then Fraps. Now Fraps is a lot better because this pausing issue. This issue does not effect my FPS but when I have it open on my second monitor I can see OBS the program itself is lagging not just the video.

Copy & paste from my Steam account, my computer specs:
Computer
GTX 970 4GB
16 GB of Ram (Going to upgrade to 32GB)
I5-3570 3.8 Ghz (Going to upgrade to a 6 Core or a 8 Core I7)
120 GB SSD
2 TB SSHD (Getting 3-4 TB more space)
1 TB HDD
Razer Blackwidow Chroma
Razer Naga Hex (Red)
Headset
Kinect as a mic
Other crap...

I added a log where I did a 20min video of Fallout 4 with the issue happening.

I would like to solve this random crap.

I would like to note that I had a custom crf valve tested at 20 and 0 will not be in theses logs probably as when nothing online worked I started screwing around with settings.
 

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1080p at 30 or 60fps seems a bit too much for your system when using the x264 encoder. In your tests with nvenc you seem to only have very few duplicate/late frames. So these recordings should have been mostly fine.
 
Jack0r said:
1080p at 30 or 60fps seems a bit too much for your system when using the x264 encoder. In your tests with nvenc you seem to only have very few duplicate/late frames. So these recordings should have been mostly fine.
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Nividia option works fine but it pixelated as hell. I used x264 encoder all the time at 30fps and 60 at 1080p never had a problem until now. I mean, I know people with crappier PCs then mine and even they can record better then me now because this issue. Why would I use that other option if I cannot even watch it because its so crappy quality? Better off using Fraps at 60fps at 1080p then doing that.

Every recording I do the videos pause every few seconds its like the program is having a fit.
 
You could create a new profile and even scene collection to test if somehow one of your current settings or sources causes the problem.
 
Jack0r said:
You could create a new profile and even scene collection to test if somehow one of your current settings or sources causes the problem.
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That's the thing though, I completely reset the program to default settings even reinstalled it and used the default settings with same effect.
 
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