Blurry Recording Despite High Quality Settings?

[DevonNorthTTV]

Hello!
I have been streaming for almost a year and recording for youtube for a similar amount of time! I am recording in 1920x1080p using NVIDIA NVENC, but when I compare to other videos my gameplay looks very blurry. Here are some of my settings for twitch:

Rate Control: CBR
Bitrate: 7900 (max twitch allows)
Keyframe Interval: 2 s
Preset: P7 (best quality)
Tuning: High Quality
Multipass mode: Two passes (quarter resolution). [I used to have this as two passes full resolution but changed it to try to fix this]
Profile: high
Psycho Tuning Enabled
GPU: 0
Max B Frames: 2

If you want to see how blurry im talking here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMFaPaE8tt8
It gets especially blurry during movement. It can often be hard to read names of the player feed as well. I don't notice this issue in other peoples videos.

Any help?

 

[oneearth]

After months of frustration and trying out the various suggestions, I was finally able to make a huge difference in the sharpness of the OBS recording by telling my computer to use the discrete graphics unit when OBS was running.

--> what a relief to see a relatively sharp image of the screen.

-- > Significantly not so blurry!

For text, I added an OBS filter and increased the contrast +0.2 and decreased the gamma +0.7 to improve on the sharpness of the OBS recording of the text.

To tell the PC (which was my situation) to use the discrete processor when OBS was running:

GPU Selection Guide | OBS

OBS Knowledge Base. For computers with multiple GPUs, make sure to select the correct one for best performance

obsproject.com

> Windows > Settings > Display > Graphics settings > browse > find obs-studio executionable > Options > select High Performance

. . .

For a Mac, you could try what this person is suggesting:

How to force your MacBook Pro to use its discrete graphics card when…

The solution is to use the machine’s discrete graphics card instead.Because the discrete GPU uses more energy, I don’t want to use it when I’m on battery…

nathansnelgrove.com

Although someone experienced the pmset no longer working:

Graphics Switching pmset commands not wor… - Apple Community

discussions.apple.com

. . .

So I wonder if your computer switches to the lower performance GPU, which could be the cause of a blurry recording?