Bundeswehr Bob
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Hey there, hoping some folks here can shed some light on what's going wrong with my setup. A log file is attached to this, and will have my system specifications there.
Preface
I was using OBS Classic, never bothered to make the switch to Studio until today to solve this particular issue. Since OBS Classic is no longer supported, all my troubleshooting requests will be made for that platform. However, the issue started when I was using OBS Classic, and the switch to OBS Studio has not corrected the issue.
Initial problem and first steps
Started up OBS Classic like I usually do, started to record my game, but noticed that the preview window on OBS was freezing, and that OBS was spitting out "high cpu usage" warnings out. Figured perhaps a restart would solve the issue, but no dice. The next step was checking my performance usage through Task Manager -> Performance, and saw that my CPU wasn't maxing itself out according to the graph.
My next bit of troubleshooting was to try and assign OBS to it's own core, but that didn't alleviate the issue either.
Google-fu and getting OBS Studio
At a bit of a loss as to what was going on, google seemed like the next natural step. The information I found regarding fixing the issue I had was to get a better hardware profile, but my rig isn't that out of date. Next to that was the solution to get OBS Studio. So I moved on to that since it's the currently supported, most recent platform.
I manually entered my settings from Classic to Studio (where applicable), fired it up, loaded my game, and began recording. The issue however had not been corrected with this (since here I am, posting in the support forum). Back to google, this time with OBS Studio as one of the key search terms. But I was greeted with a slough of similar "fix" material from the previous OBS Classic search.
Lowering the bar and getting into the log file
I decided to give the whole "lowering the settings" thing a try. It was possible that part of my hardware profile was failing, and had gone undetected until now. Pushing onwards, I tried several encoding setting configurations, and the issue persisted through, where OBS Studio was just wanting to claim that CPU usage was high, and dropping frames like mad, despite my performance tab showing everything was good to go.
This is where I jumped into the log file in OBS Studio to see if I could figure out what was going on, but all it told me that I could readily understand was that frames were being dropped cause the CPU couldn't handle it. As said, log file is attached for others to parse and let me know what's going on.
Diagnostics
Concerned that something was seriously wrong with the machine, I performed several diagnostic tests of my memory, cpu, and hard drives. Everything came up clean, and no other programs are having trouble running at their full potential on my machine.
A driver update was also executed, but the only thing that was out of date was my graphics driver. This did not solve the issue. A further step to do a clean install of windows with full, fresh set of drivers has also not fixed this issue.
"He needs Elvish medicine."
This is where I come to you folks. The log file attached is the last configuration setting I left it at, again clarifying that I have pushed it lower in an attempt to get a clean recording out of OBS Studio. All requests for a "fix" to this are with regards to OBS Studio.
To sum up: OBS Classic was freezing and putting out "high CPU usage" warnings, couldn't find a fix for it. Upgraded to OBS Studio, didn't fix issue. Attempted to lower encoding settings, didn't fix issue. Updated drivers, didn't fix issue. Clean install of windows with fresh, up to date drivers did not fix issue.
Current state: OBS Studio is unable to record smoothly, displaying high CPU usage warnings like OBS Classic did before. Output file has a significant number of missing frames.
Preface
I was using OBS Classic, never bothered to make the switch to Studio until today to solve this particular issue. Since OBS Classic is no longer supported, all my troubleshooting requests will be made for that platform. However, the issue started when I was using OBS Classic, and the switch to OBS Studio has not corrected the issue.
Initial problem and first steps
Started up OBS Classic like I usually do, started to record my game, but noticed that the preview window on OBS was freezing, and that OBS was spitting out "high cpu usage" warnings out. Figured perhaps a restart would solve the issue, but no dice. The next step was checking my performance usage through Task Manager -> Performance, and saw that my CPU wasn't maxing itself out according to the graph.
My next bit of troubleshooting was to try and assign OBS to it's own core, but that didn't alleviate the issue either.
Google-fu and getting OBS Studio
At a bit of a loss as to what was going on, google seemed like the next natural step. The information I found regarding fixing the issue I had was to get a better hardware profile, but my rig isn't that out of date. Next to that was the solution to get OBS Studio. So I moved on to that since it's the currently supported, most recent platform.
I manually entered my settings from Classic to Studio (where applicable), fired it up, loaded my game, and began recording. The issue however had not been corrected with this (since here I am, posting in the support forum). Back to google, this time with OBS Studio as one of the key search terms. But I was greeted with a slough of similar "fix" material from the previous OBS Classic search.
Lowering the bar and getting into the log file
I decided to give the whole "lowering the settings" thing a try. It was possible that part of my hardware profile was failing, and had gone undetected until now. Pushing onwards, I tried several encoding setting configurations, and the issue persisted through, where OBS Studio was just wanting to claim that CPU usage was high, and dropping frames like mad, despite my performance tab showing everything was good to go.
This is where I jumped into the log file in OBS Studio to see if I could figure out what was going on, but all it told me that I could readily understand was that frames were being dropped cause the CPU couldn't handle it. As said, log file is attached for others to parse and let me know what's going on.
Diagnostics
Concerned that something was seriously wrong with the machine, I performed several diagnostic tests of my memory, cpu, and hard drives. Everything came up clean, and no other programs are having trouble running at their full potential on my machine.
A driver update was also executed, but the only thing that was out of date was my graphics driver. This did not solve the issue. A further step to do a clean install of windows with full, fresh set of drivers has also not fixed this issue.
"He needs Elvish medicine."
This is where I come to you folks. The log file attached is the last configuration setting I left it at, again clarifying that I have pushed it lower in an attempt to get a clean recording out of OBS Studio. All requests for a "fix" to this are with regards to OBS Studio.
To sum up: OBS Classic was freezing and putting out "high CPU usage" warnings, couldn't find a fix for it. Upgraded to OBS Studio, didn't fix issue. Attempted to lower encoding settings, didn't fix issue. Updated drivers, didn't fix issue. Clean install of windows with fresh, up to date drivers did not fix issue.
Current state: OBS Studio is unable to record smoothly, displaying high CPU usage warnings like OBS Classic did before. Output file has a significant number of missing frames.