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Greasy Pommel

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I'm trying to record gameplay but no matter what settings I try in OBS, either the video has very poor quality, the video freezes every few seconds, or the game that I'm playing lags. Even if I try recording 720p 30fps video, the best I can do with it is have it look like something in lower resolution with bad color quality for whatever reason but have my game run smoothly. I'm doing a local recording, not streaming and have an amd fx-6300, amd r9 380, and a 1080p 60hz monitor. I'm not going to overclock, nor am I upgrading any of my pc parts (just to make that clear) and I play GTA 5 and BF4. Can someone please recommend what bitrate, cpu preset, resolution downscale filter, and whatever other settings that matter I should use? I've been trying to fix this for weeks now with no results, so I'd be very glad if someone with a similar setup could tell me what settings I need to use to record, not stream, good looking 720p30 video at the least. Thank you in advance.
 
Harold

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If you follow the guide FULLY then all the problems you complain about will go away.

Unless you're also using a junk media player.

But seriously, post the obs log from your attempts to follow the guide.
 
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Greasy Pommel

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One of the logs is attached. I followed the guide fully, read it multiple times, and changing the settings doesn't help. This is different from the log uploaded, but even if I record in native resolution, crf=0, bitrate over 10000, and use the slowest cpu preset, my computer will lag but the quality will remain terrible.
 

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Greasy Pommel

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I must have spent over 100 hours on this useless program. No matter what settings I use, no matter what computer I use, it eats up like half of my cpu and gives me a video that looks like it was painted with water colors. How difficult could it possibly be to record a single video that looks remotely close to what's showing up on my screen?
 
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Greasy Pommel

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Yep, I'm done. I'm done wasting my time on something clearly not intended to work without some magic focus-pocus nonsense. Just going to find something else to record with. I have nothing against you guys on the forums, and I really do appreciate you trying to help fellow users, but I don't want to waste your time on this because it's just not going to work. All best.
 
FerretBomb

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As you have a non-zero Buffer in that log, it seems you didn't actually actually read or follow ALL of the guide. Setting a zero buffer unlocks the bitrate to use whatever it needs. A zero CRF is also not recommended; lowest that probably should be used is 10, and even that is overkill in most cases. You also need to use the Ultrafast preset to minimize CPU usage. All of that is in the Guide linked above.

We can't help, if you don't listen to or follow directions. PEBCAK.
 
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Greasy Pommel

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Harold said:
User doesn't actually follow the guide.
Blames us and complains.
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I followed the guide and uploaded my log. Can't you see the settings, then? How would it make you feel if I said, "member doesn't actually read the log he asked for and complains about user not able to figure how the heck to use OBS and find the perfect balance between 10 quality and performance variables that have minimal effect on either of those things"? This isn't even the first year that I'm trying to get this garbage software to work. Would you like to see what it's recording? I'll upload a video just for you if you'd like. It looks like a 5 year old painted every frame of the video.
 
Harold

Harold

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Your settings from that log you posted did NOT follow the local recording guide I linked.

Go re-follow the whole guide again and post a clean log showing the attempt.
 
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Greasy Pommel

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Harold said:
Your settings from that log you posted did NOT follow the local recording guide I linked.

Go re-follow the whole guide again and post a clean log showing the attempt.
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My mistake and apologies, then. I uploaded the wrong log out of the dozens that I had saved. I already deleted OBS and started using other capture software, so I'm done here.
 
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Greasy Pommel said:
I followed the guide and uploaded my log. Can't you see the settings, then? How would it make you feel if I said, "member doesn't actually read the log he asked for and complains about user not able to figure how the heck to use OBS and find the perfect balance between 10 quality and performance variables that have minimal effect on either of those things"? This isn't even the first year that I'm trying to get this garbage software to work. Would you like to see what it's recording? I'll upload a video just for you if you'd like. It looks like a 5 year old painted every frame of the video.
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That's your problem, I can get perfectly good video using the settings in the guide linked to you. Don't blame us if you cannot follow the settings in that guide.
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

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OBS-Studio already is much easier to setup for this kind of purpose by the way:
obs-mp_output_settings_simple_recording_quality.png
 
Harold

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Except that your logs showed that you DIDN'T do what the guide said to do.

And your reply to jack0r implies that you didn't actually look at the screenshot.
 
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Greasy Pommel

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Harold said:
Except that your logs showed that you DIDN'T do what the guide said to do.

And your reply to jack0r implies that you didn't actually look at the screenshot.
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I already said that I stopped using OBS, so I don't have any more logs to show you people. I'm trying to close this thread but it looks like moderators and other members just like to insult customers to please themselves. Can we stop this already?
 
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