Question / Help Choppy recordings

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Kwest253

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I am not sure why this is happening but its now happening on 2 configurations for recordings. When I record footage in OBS it tends to come out choppy regardless of bit rate chosen, resolution or frame rate chosen.

My PC up until yesterday was running an i7 4770, 16 gigs of ddr 3 ram, a gtx 970 bit rate at 3500 recording at 1080p FPS
My motherboard died this weekend so I upgraded my system to an i5 7600k, 16 gigs of ram wtih a gtx 1080 recording at 720p 30 FPS.

Both setups resulted in choppy recordings. Even if I turned down the bit rate. Now to make matters worse on the newer system the recording will record audio and will on a load screen. This happens especially when recording Overwatch.

my cpu useage is under 10% so I for the life of me cannot understand why this is happening

https://gist.github.com/4a94e7c12a06d422aa4b271353706cba
 
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Kwest253

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Thanks Forrest. I tried that and it did not fix my issue. Im not sure what setting is causing this but the more I look at it the more I see that its happening specifically with Overwatch. When I tried Titanfall 2 and Mass Effect 3 this was not an issue,.
 
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Kwest253

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alpinlol said:
You actually downgraded your System the i7 4770k is by far superior to an i5 7600k when it comes to encoding.

Having a capture Card in a single PC Systems usually causes more harm than benefit.

recording guide --> https://obsproject.com/forum/resour...lity-recording-and-multiple-audio-tracks.221/
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Capture cards give more issues? Is this when trying to record PC games with a capture card or trying to record console with a capture card? I record on both console and PC to the same PC. I do not record PC games with the capture card. And how is the i5 a downgrade? Is it due to the lack of hyperthreading or something bigger? I havent seen any conclusive info on that but would like to learn more.
 
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alpinlol

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Console --> PC a capture card is perfectly fine but on the same PC where its just your PC rendering the frames already then being captured and send back to the same PC especially when you capture 1440p downscale it to 1080p then downscale it again to 720p with an input of 60 frames on the capture card down to 30 in the encoder can cause a variety of trouble.

For the CPU yes, the combination of single and multi core performance with more threads is the most important part to live encoding. Even though the i5 has the edge with single core performance it lacks the 4 more threads on the i7. Especially when you overclock the i7, which should easily do 4,2Ghz, then the single core performance gets pretty much equal and the multi gets even better.
 
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Kwest253

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So I found a solution to my problem. I turned off the preview window. Turning that off when I record took my cpu useage down from 100% down to 70% while recording and I was able to increase my resolution to 1080p 60 FPS comfortably
 
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alpinlol

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Kwest253 said:
So I found a solution to my problem. I turned off the preview window. Turning that off when I record took my cpu useage down from 100% down to 70% while recording and I was able to increase my resolution to 1080p 60 FPS comfortably
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Thats actually surprising that this issue still occurs even on a GTX 1080 where you should have more than plenty Vram Speed and capacity.

But great that it solved your issue.
 
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MRxFlip

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I’m also having this issue with choppy audio, I can’t seem to figure it out, my pc only is at 17% usuage when recording some days it does it some days it’s perfect..what can it possibly be, why is it fine one day and happens the next, I know it’s not my mic, cuz everything is the same choppy, game sound, my mic sound, and discord sound. Check out the latest video I posted just listen to first five seconds and u can see the choppyness. ( I’m not doing this to advertise a video, it’s really just my best example) https://youtu.be/AcK1t9l34nc
 
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the_soldier_wolfy

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MRxFlip said:
I’m also having this issue with choppy audio, I can’t seem to figure it out, my pc only is at 17% usuage when recording some days it does it some days it’s perfect..what can it possibly be, why is it fine one day and happens the next, I know it’s not my mic, cuz everything is the same choppy, game sound, my mic sound, and discord sound. Check out the latest video I posted just listen to first five seconds and u can see the choppyness. ( I’m not doing this to advertise a video, it’s really just my best example) https://youtu.be/AcK1t9l34nc
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Did you ever find a solution? Please, I know I am necorposting but I'm desperate. I'm tired of using Nvidia in-game overlay to record.
 
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