Question / Help Despite high settings, video output is terrible.

[Brian H]

Hello! I seem to be having trouble producing quality 1920 x 1080 recordings... with my GTX 1080. Naturally, I'm a bit confused.
I've attached my DxDiag txt file as well as my MSInfo txt file. Hopefully this should provide enough knowledge of my system, otherwise, I'm willing to go further to help incase I missed anything. I've also attached screenshots of my OBS settings and will provide a link to an example of what OBS records.

Below is a video of some recorded gameplay in which I purposefully turned off the sound. Despite me running the game at well over 100FPS at any given moment on its absolute highest settings, and the recording itself coming out at 60FPS, the quality is near unwatchable at times, despite the video being uploaded in 1080P60FPS on Youtube as well.

Any help would be appreciated because, strangely, if I stream, the issue doesn't really exist, but I don't intend to really stream that much. Thanks in advance!
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/0shThD4-s_w
Edit: here is my log file link.
https://gist.github.com/176a678f3793a192e3b067679a6c9c3c

 

[Brian H]

Any help?

 

[Harold]

Those are actually some pretty terrible recording settings.
And the log you provided doesn't show a recording attempt.

Try again with Settings - output
Simple output mode
indistinguishable recording quality
FLV format (there are precisely ZERO situations where mp4 is appropriate)
software (x264 low cpu use preset) encoder

Do a test record with those settings
Then restart obs and upload the LAST log from the help menu and link it here.

 

[Brian H]

I recorded something in FLV and now I cannot open the file to view it. I have no idea what to do.

 

[Harold]

Use VLC as your media player.

 

[Brian H]

I don't think I'm gonna be a fan of that.
https://gist.github.com/c1069198958ee1a0b69dfbb0f22f27a7
Heres the last log file. The quality of the recordings is still pretty rough but not nearly as bad.

 

[Harold]

That's an incomplete log from a session where you tried to launch a second instance of OBS.

 

[FingerMove]

Why even bother with OBS when you have a GTX 1080 that can use hardware-level encoding directly in itself? Just use Geforce Experience with NVidia Share and get 60 fps@your native resolution with zero lag and much better quality than what your CPU can achieve.

People these days...

 

[Harold]

Because nVidia share doesn't do overlays or other scene composition stuff.