Question / Help Dropping frames during recording due to encoding lag, but my cpu usage is only 2-5%?

[lwsnails]

Basically as the title says. I've been looking around for help but everyone else dropping frames from encoding lag also seems to have a problem with high CPU usage. I've tried lowering my bitrate from 40,000 to 20,000 and had no significant results, and changed the output resolution down to 1280x720, again yielding no significant results. Any help would be appreciated!

Specs:
Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
RAM: 16GB
OS: Windows 10

 

[Narcogen]

You're encoding with your GPU, so encoding lag isn't CPU overload, it's GPU overload.

You're using VBR, which is a non-default setting, and you've got two settings on that both can use extra GPU resources:

11:53:15.752: lookahead: true
11:53:15.752: psycho_aq: true

Try turning those off, or switching to simple output mode, indistinguishable quality, large file size.

If you want to use advanced, use CQP rate control with a quality setting between 14 (high quality) and 23 (good quality) definitely turn lookahead off, and experiment with turning psycho active tuning off.

 

[lwsnails]

I went with the CQP setting at 23, and turned off psycho active tuning. My dropped frames went down to 2.3%, so there's still stuttering, but a definite improvement! Anything else I could try?

Updated log with new recordings:

 

[Narcogen]

You can go higher than 23.

 

[lwsnails]

That fixed it, thank you so much!

 

[Narcogen]

Glad that helped!