Question / Help Best Recording Quality

[so1l]

Greetings everyone. New user here with OBS Studio. I am beginning using it solely for recording on World of Warcraft. My "problem" is that when there is a highly active screen (like on Raids or PVP that there is a high using of graphic effects from spells or movement) the recorded video has massive macroblock artifacts (i think that this is the correct term). I played a bit with the encoding settings but with no actual luck and on top of that, i don't know which i have to use.

My system is: Core i5 6500, 16GB RAM, HD 7790 (R7 260X).

I've done a bit of searching too but w/e i found was either too old (very old version of OBS Classic) or not quit suited for my needs. So i am just asking which encoding method should i use and with which settings.

Thanks in advance and keep up the good work!

PS: I want to record on 1080p 60fps.

 

[koala]

For recording, use a quality based rate control method, not a bitrate controlled one. You use CBR, which tries to maintain a constant bitrate. With this, for low motion scenes you are wasting space, because the scene may be perfectly encoded by using lower bitrate, and for high motion scenes you are wasting quality, because the given bitrate may not be enough to maintain desired high quality.

I don't know the available options of the AMD hardware encoder, but there is probably some rate control method where you don't have any bitrate to configure but only a quality parameter (QP). The rate control method is probably called CQP. For indistinguishable quality (and huge file sizes), use QP parameters from 15..20, for good quality (and medium file sizes) use 20..23. The lower the QP value, the better the quality and the larger the file.

You can also use the simple output settings. In recent OBS, there is also a pre-made setting for the AMD encoder.