Choppy recording after updating OBS

[thesilentsolace]

I just updated OBS to the latest version (29.1.3) and after trying to do a few seconds of gameplay recording for a game trailer I noticed the video it creates is very choppy. I never had this problem in the previous version I used. Unfortunately I don't know what that version is but if there's a way of finding out that would be great if I could just re-install that to fix it.

I looked in the Logs and saw a high number of skipped frames but after messing about with various settings I couldn't find anything that changed much.

Here's a link to the log as it seems to be too long to post here: https://pastebin.com/RnA0MipS

Anybody have any suggestions?

 

[Harold]

your video card is now 6 generations old, and because of the settings being used is overloaded.

 

[thesilentsolace]

Then why was it working perfectly fine before? I could record perfect footage before but now after updating it's choppy.

 

[Harold]

Different settings most likely

In settings - output, change the output mode to advanced, go to the recording tab, change the recording encoder to nvenc, rate control to CQP, CQP level to 15, and preset to p1

 

[thesilentsolace]

Welp. Saw in the logs that I was previously using 27.2.4. Downloaded the portable version of that, did a test and it's recording flawlessly.

Guess I'm never updating then.

 

[Harold]

try my directions before you declare giving up

 

[thesilentsolace]

I did. It wouldn't record anything, just threw up an error message related to NVIDIA drivers.

 

[Harold]

That's probably a side effect of running a 6 generation old video card.

 

[thesilentsolace]

More like a side effect of shoddy programming.

 

[Harold]

You're running a PCI-E 2.0 video card from over 10 years ago. It's not shoddy programming.

 

[thesilentsolace]

Yes it is. The program works flawlessly in the previous version but is unusable in the latest version. After searching I see many people are having this issue too and are recommending people not to update. All they need to do is add a GPU detection and use the legacy recording for older cards. Only a simp would defend such incompetence.