Hello all,
I apologize in advance, because I've been researching and I know this issue has been posted 10,000 times, but alot of the posts i'm finding in my research are from 2 or more years ago with OLD versions of OBS.
This post is concerning the NEWEST version of OBS.
I just recently picked up the streaming/recording hobby, and I really enjoy it, but I will pre-face by saying I'm certainly in need of more knowledge.
I've watched videos, tutorials, and read OBS postings about the "optimal" settings, but it seems I always end up running into frustrations!!
The Problem: My main frustrations have been with Doom 4. I tried streaming it first, but that was a waste of time and it was horrible and choppy because my upload is only about 5 Mbps. So I decided to do local recordings, and then upload to my YouTube channel.
Several days ago, I did my first recording. I set the game settings to 1440p. After toying with OBS for a while b/c it REFUSED to do a full screen gaming capture, I finally found that I could do a Windowed borderless setting, and tell OBS to capture the specific Doom window. However, sometimes even this fails, and the preview is frozen. Sometimes I have to set it to "match executable name" and sometimes "Match Window name" (or something like that, I can't remember what it says)
BOTH of these options have worked, but neither of them work consistently every time. It seems just freakin random.
Anyways, I did about 1.5 hours of recording at 1440p, and the video quality turned out fantastic! It's smooth, not choppy, no audio delays or anything, looks great.
Well, I tried to do a 1440p recording last night, real quick this time, it was only about 15 minutes (I was just beating the final battle of the Kadinger Sanctum realm, so I could add that to my previous Hell recordings). When I reviewed the recording, it was total and complete CRAP. Literally none of my settings have changed for recording. Everything should be exactly as it was when I recorded that 1.5 hour session! I double checked my settings to confirm this.
Again, I'm sorry, and I know this question has been hammered into the ground, but i'm just so frustrated, and I've done hours of research and video watching, and most of the info I'm finding is for OLD OBS versions, and the settings don't even look the same anymore!
I've seen alot of people upload logs. Where do I get those? I'm at work right now so I can't upload them, but I will as soon as I get home.
Side Questions: (cuz i'm still new to this)
1. Should I set my bitrate much much higher when doing recording as opposed to streaming? I currently have it set to 2400 I believe based on my upload speed, but I've seen people suggest 30,000 for local recordings? Could this be part of the issue?
2. If my native (base) resolution on my monitor is 2048x1152, do I need to tell OBS to "scale" in the Video tab? Or just set it to the same resolution? Does this affect the game negatively since it's set to 1440p??
3. Should I try telling my game video source to scale to 1080p, and see if it's still choppy?
4. What other troubleshooting / settings should I tweak to try and isolate the issue?
I apologize in advance, because I've been researching and I know this issue has been posted 10,000 times, but alot of the posts i'm finding in my research are from 2 or more years ago with OLD versions of OBS.
This post is concerning the NEWEST version of OBS.
I just recently picked up the streaming/recording hobby, and I really enjoy it, but I will pre-face by saying I'm certainly in need of more knowledge.
I've watched videos, tutorials, and read OBS postings about the "optimal" settings, but it seems I always end up running into frustrations!!
The Problem: My main frustrations have been with Doom 4. I tried streaming it first, but that was a waste of time and it was horrible and choppy because my upload is only about 5 Mbps. So I decided to do local recordings, and then upload to my YouTube channel.
Several days ago, I did my first recording. I set the game settings to 1440p. After toying with OBS for a while b/c it REFUSED to do a full screen gaming capture, I finally found that I could do a Windowed borderless setting, and tell OBS to capture the specific Doom window. However, sometimes even this fails, and the preview is frozen. Sometimes I have to set it to "match executable name" and sometimes "Match Window name" (or something like that, I can't remember what it says)
BOTH of these options have worked, but neither of them work consistently every time. It seems just freakin random.
Anyways, I did about 1.5 hours of recording at 1440p, and the video quality turned out fantastic! It's smooth, not choppy, no audio delays or anything, looks great.
Well, I tried to do a 1440p recording last night, real quick this time, it was only about 15 minutes (I was just beating the final battle of the Kadinger Sanctum realm, so I could add that to my previous Hell recordings). When I reviewed the recording, it was total and complete CRAP. Literally none of my settings have changed for recording. Everything should be exactly as it was when I recorded that 1.5 hour session! I double checked my settings to confirm this.
Again, I'm sorry, and I know this question has been hammered into the ground, but i'm just so frustrated, and I've done hours of research and video watching, and most of the info I'm finding is for OLD OBS versions, and the settings don't even look the same anymore!
I've seen alot of people upload logs. Where do I get those? I'm at work right now so I can't upload them, but I will as soon as I get home.
Side Questions: (cuz i'm still new to this)
1. Should I set my bitrate much much higher when doing recording as opposed to streaming? I currently have it set to 2400 I believe based on my upload speed, but I've seen people suggest 30,000 for local recordings? Could this be part of the issue?
2. If my native (base) resolution on my monitor is 2048x1152, do I need to tell OBS to "scale" in the Video tab? Or just set it to the same resolution? Does this affect the game negatively since it's set to 1440p??
3. Should I try telling my game video source to scale to 1080p, and see if it's still choppy?
4. What other troubleshooting / settings should I tweak to try and isolate the issue?
