Always Lagging. Newbie. Please Help

[learningnewbie90]

I've been trying to record gameplay via emulator and Steam. When I play without recording, there is little to no lag. However, when I record, there is a lot of lag. The games I've been playing lately are Dreamcast era games. There shouldn't be any lag given these games run on 30 fps, right? As per my screen name, I'm very new to this. I just want to record without any lag. Below is my OBS log.

https://obsproject.com/logs/O6lmfBDIBkXpbgXk

 

[qhobbes]

Run OBS as Admin. Right click on shortcut, properties, advanced, check box, ok, apply, ok.

 

[deFrisselle]

Your framerate is set to 30000 I assume you meant 30

 

[learningnewbie90]

Run OBS as Admin. Right click on shortcut, properties, advanced, check box, ok, apply, ok.

That helped a great deal, but there's still lag during gameplay.

https://obsproject.com/logs/1Zx9VmGbOPV8uLsA

 

[learningnewbie90]

Run OBS as Admin. Right click on shortcut, properties, advanced, check box, ok, apply, ok.

Actually, here is the new OBS log. Ignore the above post.

https://obsproject.com/logs/9oh0vte8niXlk9-R

 

[koala]

Reduce the recording fps from 60 to 30. This will reduce the GPU demands of OBS to half. You have only the Intel iGPU, this is not much graphics power, which is probably already consumed by your game you intend to capture.

 

[learningnewbie90]

Reduce the recording fps from 60 to 30. This will reduce the GPU demands of OBS to half. You have only the Intel iGPU, this is not much graphics power, which is probably already consumed by your game you intend to capture.

The lag mostly stopped during the recording of gameplay, but a lot more playable when in recording mode. Huge thanks!
If I were to upgrade my GPU, what GPU is recommended? I don't plan on doing any triple A gaming on my PC, but mainly recording via PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, etc.

 

[FerretBomb]

The lag mostly stopped during the recording of gameplay, but a lot more playable when in recording mode. Huge thanks!
If I were to upgrade my GPU, what GPU is recommended? I don't plan on doing any triple A gaming on my PC, but mainly recording via PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, etc.

Any modern nVidia GPU is the go-to. nVidia's NVENC reduces the encode load on the system to near-zero, with no impact on gameplay performance (as it is a separate part of the GPU die). Anything 1660 or newer (and the 1650 Super specifically, not the non-super or ti) will deliver video encoding quality on-par with x264 Slow, which is very good.
Good luck getting one though, with the current GPU drought.

AMD's equivalent, AMF, is... very, very bad.
Fine cards if you're just gaming. But AMF encoding is a trainwreck covered in used diapers.
On fire.

 

[koala]

trainwreck covered in used diapers

As a non-native English speaker, this colorful figure of speech is new to me. I will re-use the German translation of that for my next game session of Gartic Phone.

 

[deFrisselle]

Log says you are not running OBS and you are not using a 30 or 60 FPS framerate

 

[learningnewbie90]

Log says you are not running OBS and you are not using a 30 or 60 FPS framerate

Situation has been fixed, but thanks though.