Question / Help Best settings for my setup?

[xXBeberXx]

Recording only, for now (as in - not for streaming).
I prefer the video sticking to 60fps, rather than losing some for quality.
Uploading to Youtube.

My rig;
Intel Core i5-8400 2.80Ghz
32GB RAM DDR4
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming Z 6GB VRAM
Windows 10 Home Edition

BTW, I'm using the Display Capture source to record, as sometimes a game breaks and I don't wat to restart the recording.

Current Settings;

Thanks a lot!

 

[FerretBomb]

You do not need Advanced mode. On the up side, it's exceedingly easy to get top-quality recordings as a result.

1) Set your Output Mode to Simple
2) Set the recording quality to Indistinguishable
3) Set the Encoder to NVENC
4) NEVER EVER FOR ANY REASON RECORD DIRECTLY TO MP4. It's not a recording-safe format, and if any error occurs, your entire recording session will be corrupted irrecoverably. Record to MKV or FLV, then remux to MP4 from OBS' File menu, Remux Recordings if you need mp4s for editing later.

 

[xXBeberXx]

Thanks! I tried it and it does look great and all, but I got 855MB file for 2 minutes of gameplay... It apparently records at 60,000kbps bitrate, which is quite insane. And sometimes I record for an hour.
That's why I need a "middle ground"; Like a 10GB file, tops, for an hour of gameplay, while maintaining good quality and a solid 60fps.

 

[FerretBomb]

Those settings should not result in almost a gig of data for 2 minutes. Are you sure it's set to Indistinguishable, and not Lossless? You can go down to the High quality setting instead for lower hard drive usage, but lower quality video. Still pretty good quality, just not as good as Indistinguishable.

The more detail in your scene, the faster motion, the more bitrate it's going to need. So if you're running through the cornfield map, it's going to either chomp hard drive, or look like crap. There's no way to retain that much detail at a low bitrate. ESPECIALLY not at full-rate 1080p60.

If nothing else, I'd recommend considering grabbing a larger hard drive, just for recordings. They're getting pretty cheap these days, with a 4TB spinning platter drive costing around $100-$120 USD.

 

[xXBeberXx]

Thanks for all the info! Didn't know that "the faster motion, the more bitrate it's going to need". I did set it to Indistinguishable and that's what I got;

1:44 Minutes --> 855MB. It makes sense, as the bit rate went to almost 69,000kbps.

I just ordered a 2TB M.2 SSD, so maybe I'll keep it like that and use the SSD for recordings. But I don't know how Youtube (and my bandwith)would feel, uploading a 30GB video file XD.