Completly new to obs help please with settings my setup and pics included

[comebackkidd361]

Ok here is my setup I'm looking for advice on where to start with what I'm rocking. I've watched over 25 videos and spent hours on the forums.

Pc
ryzen 5 2600
Radeon 570 i believe it is my first pc and will be upgrading components in the next few weeks.
2 displays
Main philips 75 in 4k 60 hz tv
Secondary gaming monitor small 1080p I think 120 hz

Mic
Hyperx

Webcam
Elgato facecam

I plan on streaming games like rust, dayz, cod, ark survival ascended and arma reforger.
My first stream last night I set my settings to what a video recommended and tbh still have no clue what it all means.
I ran the setup wizard and the pictures attached are what it recommends.
Can anyone please point me in the right direction of going through and tweaking all of my settings.
I'm having two issues I would like to resolve. I streamed rust last night thought it was all fine, I went back to watch the video and it was laggyish, choppy and blurry. Like if I spun in a circle the stream would spin slower and be blurrier than what I saw. I think I had my bitrate at 6k and didn't scale down to 720. Both were 1080p.
My second issue I got setup to stream ark today and got this wierd thing happening. When I was clicked off of the game, onto my second monitor that I don't play on my display was full screen. As soon as I would click and start playing. The recording would go to say 75 % percent of my canvas and wouldnt fill it ( switched to rust to check and it stayed full screen) Picture also attached.
I also tried to click transform and reset transform and literally nothing happened.

I'm exhausted and looking for help from someone who can get my base settings set up and guide me. I'm hardwired and interent is relatively great.
I'm looking for input output, scaling selector bilinearal etc, bitrate, encoder, x264 or whatever and other settings in advanced all the way through.
I just want something clean and crisp and as close to matching as what I record as possible. Im fine with streaming in 720 I guess. I understand this pc isn't great at all.
Thank you so much to anyone who read this and can help

 

[qhobbes]

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[comebackkidd361]

Log file

 

[qhobbes]

1. OBS is not running as Administrator. This can lead to OBS not being able to Game Capture certain games. If you are not running into issues, you can ignore this, but it looks like you are because you're using Display Capture to capture games. Run OBS as Admin, remove Display Capture and use Game Capture.
2. Go to "Settings -> Advanced" and set "YUV Color Range" back to "Limited".
3. The encoder is skipping frames because of CPU overload. Lower the output FPS to 30 if you're unable to use the hardware encoder (you may need to use an older version of OBS for that)
4. Your GPU is maxed out and OBS can't render scenes fast enough. Running a game without vertical sync or a frame rate limiter will frequently cause performance issues with OBS because your GPU will be maxed out. OBS requires a little GPU to render your scene.

Enable Free\Vsync or set a reasonable frame rate limit (120, 60) that your GPU can handle without hitting 100% usage.

If that's not enough you may also need to turn down some of the video quality options in the game. If you are experiencing issues in general while using OBS, your GPU may be overloaded for the settings you are trying to use.

If still having issues, post a new log.

 

[comebackkidd361]

1. OBS is not running as Administrator. This can lead to OBS not being able to Game Capture certain games. If you are not running into issues, you can ignore this, but it looks like you are because you're using Display Capture to capture games. Run OBS as Admin, remove Display Capture and use Game Capture.
2. Go to "Settings -> Advanced" and set "YUV Color Range" back to "Limited".
3. The encoder is skipping frames because of CPU overload. Lower the output FPS to 30 if you're unable to use the hardware encoder (you may need to use an older version of OBS for that)
4. Your GPU is maxed out and OBS can't render scenes fast enough. Running a game without vertical sync or a frame rate limiter will frequently cause performance issues with OBS because your GPU will be maxed out. OBS requires a little GPU to render your scene.

Enable Free\Vsync or set a reasonable frame rate limit (120, 60) that your GPU can handle without hitting 100% usage.

If that's not enough you may also need to turn down some of the video quality options in the game. If you are experiencing issues in general while using OBS, your GPU may be overloaded for the settings you are trying to use.

If still having issues, post a new log.

Is game capture better to run than display? I run the display for my full screen because I switch games sometimes in the middle. I streamed last night and didn't seem to have any issues. I took the settings back to simple instead of advanced, ran the wizard and changed like 2 things.

 

[qhobbes]

Yes, Game Capture directly captures the DirectX or OpenGL game you are playing. Game Capture is the most efficient way you can add your games to OBS Studio and should always be tried first.

You don't (and shouldn't) need to use multiple Game Capture sources.

In the Game Capture settings you can set the Mode to either Capture any fullscreen application OR Capture foreground window with hotkey. You can set the hotkey by going to OBS Settings, Hotkeys, Game Capture, Capture foreground window*.