Question / Help Dark Souls 3 Heavy Ghosting

[Kechlion]

So while recording Dark Souls 3 using the settings here: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/ there's a lot of ghosting in Dark Souls 3, but it's only, specifically, when you are standing still and not moving the camera. It's like somehow there's not enough new things happening on screen for it to 'pay attention'. The rest of the time Dark Souls 3 records fairly well. An example of this behavior can be seen in this video (https://youtu.be/epn9D5ZB3to?t=9m11s) from 9:14 to 9:57 - caution, has strong language.

Any idea why this happens or what to do about it?

Thanks!

 

[Sapiens]

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/please-post-a-log-with-your-issue-heres-how.23074/

Does the problem happen only after uploading to YouTube, or in the original file as well?

 

[Kechlion]

No, it's in the original file before it ever makes it to youtube.

As for the log, I uploaded my latest one - I do not have any from when I recorded as they seem to roll over very quickly.

 

[Sapiens]

Try setting your keyframe interval to 2 seconds and see if that makes a difference. With a 5930K you should also be able to manage the superfast preset, which won't throw out a lot of x264's really useful encoding tricks the way ultrafast does.

 

[Kechlion]

From the limited test I ran, that seems to have fixed the ghosting issue, however it seems a bit... janky? Like it's not as smooth of a recording as it previously was.

 

[Sapiens]

Changing from ultrafast to superfast will make your CPU work harder, though I would be surprised if your CPU couldn't keep up. You could try NVENC for recording, or try OBS Studio and use one of the recording presets.

 

[Kechlion]

I am currently using OBS Studio.

Trying NVENC seemed to make the problem worse, for whatever reason ><

I think I'll need to test it more with the settings I have now - I changed back to ultrafast but lowered the crf number. It doesn't appear as though I've got any more ghosting issues, but time will tell!

Thank you for the help.

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

really strange. is it same with shadowplay? it will most probably work very well and perform better than obs nvenc if suits your needs

 

[Kechlion]

I haven't tried Dark Souls 3 with shadowplay, but shadowplay introduces other problems, mainly graphical artifacts and poor quality recording. Even with everything set to max on shadowplay when I recorded Witcher 3 or Dying Light it still looked garbled if there was a lot of motion on the screen.