johuang50
New Member
Hi everyone,
I want to set up my OBS for recording gaming content. I do not have the best graphics set up (graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce MX230) so I want to have the most optimal video and output settings so that my game itself runs smoother. I usually have problems while recording Minecraft on a famous server Hypixel (no server side lag), where I get 20-30ms ping and ~100 fps while recording; but I still somehow have random lag (I dont see the fps drop for even a moment). It's not consistent lag and it comes randomly where the screen just freezes on the same frame for like 250 milliseconds and then the next second I noticed that I have fallen off my island and died since I ninjabridge (nerdy minecraft stuff but its aggravating since even small lag spikes have a huge impact on my gameplay).
I really could not find out what the exact problem is; my GPU usage is never too high, I am using the nvidia high performance gpu for the game and obs, I have 16GB RAM, i7 processor, and 1T SSD space so I expect this only 6-month-old machine to perform pretty decently.
So I went into my OBS Settings and realized that most tutorials say to use the NVENC encoder, but when I looked at all the options in the drop down, all I could see was x264, alternative x264, and Hardwars(QSV). I do not want to use the Intel QuickSync one since I thought that having an NVIDIA graphics processor meant that I am supposed to have the option of selecting Hardware(NVENC), but I do not see this option.
I saw someone else's thread on this: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/nvenc-option-will-not-show-up-in-the-encoder-drop-bar.108341/#:~:text=NVENC is not available because,Windows is using for it. But I really dont think its the same problem since I have made sure my drivers are up to date many times and since my problem seems different altogether since my hardware option is shown as QSV.
Sorry if this problem statement is huge but I really want to get around to fix my lag problem so my main questions are: 1. is there any other problem that could be causing lag in game, and 2. how do I fix it? 3. Is there a reason why the NVENC option isn't appearing for me, how can I fix it? 4. Does the encoder affect my in-game performance or should I not even be worrying about it?
Thanks community,
Joshua
P.S. here is my last log file, not exactly sure if it will help but let me know: https://obsproject.com/logs/JHgbnqrGWR_VO9-M
I want to set up my OBS for recording gaming content. I do not have the best graphics set up (graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce MX230) so I want to have the most optimal video and output settings so that my game itself runs smoother. I usually have problems while recording Minecraft on a famous server Hypixel (no server side lag), where I get 20-30ms ping and ~100 fps while recording; but I still somehow have random lag (I dont see the fps drop for even a moment). It's not consistent lag and it comes randomly where the screen just freezes on the same frame for like 250 milliseconds and then the next second I noticed that I have fallen off my island and died since I ninjabridge (nerdy minecraft stuff but its aggravating since even small lag spikes have a huge impact on my gameplay).
I really could not find out what the exact problem is; my GPU usage is never too high, I am using the nvidia high performance gpu for the game and obs, I have 16GB RAM, i7 processor, and 1T SSD space so I expect this only 6-month-old machine to perform pretty decently.
So I went into my OBS Settings and realized that most tutorials say to use the NVENC encoder, but when I looked at all the options in the drop down, all I could see was x264, alternative x264, and Hardwars(QSV). I do not want to use the Intel QuickSync one since I thought that having an NVIDIA graphics processor meant that I am supposed to have the option of selecting Hardware(NVENC), but I do not see this option.
I saw someone else's thread on this: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/nvenc-option-will-not-show-up-in-the-encoder-drop-bar.108341/#:~:text=NVENC is not available because,Windows is using for it. But I really dont think its the same problem since I have made sure my drivers are up to date many times and since my problem seems different altogether since my hardware option is shown as QSV.
Sorry if this problem statement is huge but I really want to get around to fix my lag problem so my main questions are: 1. is there any other problem that could be causing lag in game, and 2. how do I fix it? 3. Is there a reason why the NVENC option isn't appearing for me, how can I fix it? 4. Does the encoder affect my in-game performance or should I not even be worrying about it?
Thanks community,
Joshua
P.S. here is my last log file, not exactly sure if it will help but let me know: https://obsproject.com/logs/JHgbnqrGWR_VO9-M
