Question / Help Blurry when recording at 1440p 60fps (settings not respected?)

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AkiraRagnas

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I've reduced my monitor's refresh rate from 144Hz to 60Hz, but I still get strange artifacting and blurriness. No problem, I thought, I'll check the logs. In the UI, I have bitrate set to 150000 and b-frames to 3 (I tried a few times, this is for the last recording in the log). As you can see, it doesn't seem to agree - and yes, I hit apply. I assume that has something to do with it, if not, any help would be appreciated. (Incidentally, my audio bitrate is also at 320, but the log says 160.)

https://obsproject.com/logs/HP88oqzkXIE9Hu1f
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

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16:49:06.143: [NVENC encoder: 'streaming_h264'] settings:
16:49:06.143: rate_control: CBR
16:49:06.143: bitrate: 10000

16:45:42.448: [CoreAudio AAC: 'Track1']: settings:
16:45:42.448: mode: AAC
16:45:42.448: bitrate: 160

Also, if the log says the rate is 160, it's 160. Not sure why, but I'm pretty sure that what the log reports is what the program is actually using.

For high quality recording with NVENC you should be using CQP rate control and a rating between 15 and 23 (the lower the number, the higher the quality-- 0 is theoretically lossless). There's really no reason to use CBR with NVENC for recording, it's mostly for streaming.
 
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AkiraRagnas

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Well, now that's very strange, why would there be a discrepancy between the UI setting and what's used - even stranger, when I set it to 1000, it logged that (you can see that in the logs I posted), but when I put it back up to 150000, it goes to 10000. I'll try it with CQP and see if the logs reflect my settings. More troubling is that the b-frames setting isn't being respected. Possible bug?
 
BK-Morpheus

BK-Morpheus

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Maybe you've configured streaming and recording settings differently and enabled, that the recording should use the streaming settings, that's why the recording settings are ignored.
 
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AkiraRagnas

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Okay, I'm just a dumb man. While I did have recording set to use the same encoding settings as streaming (so that wasn't the issue), I did have "Enforce streaming service encoder settings" checked. I apologize for wasting everyone's time, and I thank you all for your gracious help.
 
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