Choppy/Laggy videos even on best settings

[Aydzn]

Hey all, my recordings have been coming out very choppy as of recent and I'm wondering why. I am on OBS version 29 running as administrator.

My Specs:
i9 9900k
32gb ddr4
Nvidia RTX 2080 Super

Through recording in OBS my Encoder is the NVIDIA NVENC HEVC and Im using cqp at level 15 with look-ahead and psycho tuning both off.
I have also tried NVIDIA NVENC H.264 as an encoder and all the different rate controls and still no luck.
I also have my logs linked
Would really appreciate some feedback as to why they are rendering/coming out like this. Thanks!

 

[sandrix]

Try increasing CQP to 20-23 or switch to CBR/VBR. With a very low CQP you are running at a huge bitrate, so your HDD can be the bottleneck.

 

[Aydzn]

Try increasing CQP to 20-23 or switch to CBR/VBR. With a very low CQP you are running at a huge bitrate, so your HDD can be the bottleneck.

Tried switching to both and it saves to my SSD, still choppy :/
Ive reinstalled the program, updated all drivers (if that helps), updated windows and everything

 

[sandrix]

- Turn on Game Mode
- Set maximum performance modes in Windows, Nvidia control panel
- Give high priority to OBS
- Try disabling Browser Hardware Acceleration in OBS, this rarely helps. If it doesn't work, turn it back on.

You say the videos look choppy. Maybe it's about subjective perception? You are using 240 and 144 Hz monitors and you are recording video at 60 fps.

Your log file contains a recording session that is too short.

21:28:14.690: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
21:28:14.690: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 293
21:28:14.690: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 303

 

[Aydzn]

- Turn on Game Mode
- Set maximum performance modes in Windows, Nvidia control panel
- Give high priority to OBS
- Try disabling Browser Hardware Acceleration in OBS, this rarely helps. If it doesn't work, turn it back on.

You say the videos look choppy. Maybe it's about subjective perception? You are using 240 and 144 Hz monitors and you are recording video at 60 fps.

Your log file contains a recording session that is too short.

I turned on game mode, set max performance, high priority and disabled browser hardware. Still choppy, and yes I use high refresh rate monitors but the videos are 15-20 fps max when on game capture and window cap

 

[sandrix]

Unfortunately, I no longer have an idea. Your log file looks good. Try reverting back to OBS 28.1.2. It is possible that the problem is with the video driver.

 

[Aydzn]

Unfortunately, I no longer have an idea. Your log file looks good. Try reverting back to OBS 28.1.2. It is possible that the problem is with the video driver.

Hey! After a while of troubleshooting (almost 3 months later) turns out the obs settings and everything were fine, it was the windows media player that was making everything all choppy. I changed it back to Movies & TV and everything runs smoothly like it did before.