Question / Help Encoder Overloaded! Tried multiple fixes, plz help!

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Psyqhical

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Since the beginning of my Twitch and YouTube carreer, I've been using OBS to stream and record all my videos and, for almost a year, everything worked fine.

However, for the last month and a half now, I've been having issues with both OBS Classic and OBS Studio. The issue being that everytime I try to record something; doesn't even matter what. I'm always greeted by the error message in the bottom left corner of the program; "Encoder Overloaded! Please lower bla bla bla...".

This causes a lot of hick-ups in my YouTube videos and I'm the kind of person who is keen on his quality. Having videos with poorer quality frustrates me.
Luckely my Livestream stays unhindered.

I'm not sure how this has come to pass since I hadn't changed any of my settings for almost a year.
when I started YouTube and Twitch, I was using OBS Classic until the problem cropped up. I tried numerous fixes, but nothing helped.
So, I changed to OBS Studio in a last ditch effort to get it to work again. But, to no avail as I'm having the same problem on OBS Studio.

Nomally my OBS Settings are;
- NVENC
- 30000 Bitrate
- 1080P
- 60FPS

The fixes that I have tried are the following;
- Changed from OBS Classic to OBS Studio
- Changed Bitrate from 30000 to 24000 and later to 60000
- Tried High Performance NVENC preset
- Tried High Quality NVENC preset
- Tried Custom Buffer Size of 0, 30000 and 60000
- Tried with and without Camera
- Changed from NVENC to x264
- Changed x264 preset from Veryfast to Superfast and Ultrafast
- Changed Profile from High to Main
- Tried VBR instead of CBR
- Tried CRF instead of CBR
- Tried different CRF rates; 7, 12 and 16
- Added "opencl=true" to the x264 options
- Changed Keyframe Interval from 2 to 0
- Lowered the FPS from 60 to 30.
- Tried Display Capture instead of Game Capture

I'm at my wits end.

Please help!

Log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e829f54ab06140b4f362d9b9e40c2e6c
 
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Cordeliah

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Bump again! I'm right there with you. I haven't been doing this for a year, but for the last couple of weeks my recordings have been fine. NOTHING has changed. Suddenly today I wake up to make another video of a game I started yesterday and nothing works....constant overloading.

I have turned down every setting possible to the point the videos look horrendous and still it's not enough. My settings were yours except 20000 Bitrate instead of your 30000.I even reinstalled OBS to see if that would help. I have updated my computer. I have turned off everything besides the game and OBS.

My cpu usage hasn't gone above 50% and 50% isn't normal either that's when it peaks once in awhile. It sits around 20-30% while recording. My temps have been fine. I've kept an eye on all of that, but it's still treating me as if I'm maxing out my cpu/gpu. This is super frustrating.....
 
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Cordeliah

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I fixed my problem. It was Avast for me. I disabled it before and it was still causing problems hence why I didn't think it was the problem. Upon completely removing it from my pc, I'm now recording again just fine. Fingers crossed that it wasn't a fluke and it continues to be fine.

Good luck with a fix for you, Psyqhical.
 
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Psyqhical

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goodwarrior12345 said:
Give uninstalling BitDefender a try and see if it changes anything.
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I don't understand why BitDefender would suddenly cause problems. I've been using BitDefender for years and I've only encountered this problem recently with OBS.

However, at this point, I'm willing to try.

Edit: Uninstalled BitDefender and restarted PC. Issue persists.

On a sidenote, I've also run a virusscan on both BitDefender and Malewarebytes,
Updated my graphics driver through Nvidia experience and all my other drivers through DriverPack Solutions
Cleaned my registry with CCleaner
And added all the rules and exclusions I could find in BitDefender for OBS
 
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IMI4tth3w

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i feel like these kinds of issues are RAMPANT with OBS right now. tons of people out of nowhere having huge fps issues. and OBS no one has found a solution.

Just upgraded my wifes 780ti to a 1080ti and still same issue. if not worse. idk what to do now. its been a month of this... about to reinstall windows
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

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IMI4tth3w said:
i feel like these kinds of issues are RAMPANT with OBS right now. tons of people out of nowhere having huge fps issues. and OBS no one has found a solution.

Just upgraded my wifes 780ti to a 1080ti and still same issue. if not worse. idk what to do now. its been a month of this... about to reinstall windows
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What you feel, and the reality of a situation are rarely the same. There are a tiny handful of users having issues, and they're all being caused by separate things.

I skimmed through your posts, and you're just posting on other people's threads and I haven't seen you provide a single log file that shows the issue. If you did, my apologies, but please, please, PLEASE provide logs when asking for help, and create your own thread. Just because you THINK your issue is "exactly the same" does not mean it is. It's very difficult to try and support 10 people who jump in the same thread saying "I have the same problem!" when it's not at all. I see you have created a new thread, which I will reply to shortly.

Psyqhical said:
Just tried to record with webcam only (no desktop or game). Same issue.

New Log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/dc4ff85b1848e7e3c108a15f511b69a1
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Please download GPU-Z and post a screenshot (the camera button in the program)

Download: https://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

Also, monitor GPU load as well as CPU. Since you're using the NVENC encoder, if your GPU is being overloaded somehow, it can cause issues with the hardware encoder on your GPU.
 
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Psyqhical

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Fenrir said:
Please download GPU-Z and post a screenshot (the camera button in the program)

Download: https://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

Also, monitor GPU load as well as CPU. Since you're using the NVENC encoder, if your GPU is being overloaded somehow, it can cause issues with the hardware encoder on your GPU.
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Ok, I downloaded GPU-Z and ran OBS Studio with Mass Effect Andromeda on my old setup for about 5 minutes.
Here's the results;

GPU-Z: http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/17/05/26/np6.png
New Log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/93266ffee5f4fb336d760c37c706b32b
 
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Psyqhical

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OMG! I figured out the problem!

It wasn't my CPU, it wasn't my GPU, it was where my recorded videos went to... An external Hard Drive.
This is my second hard drive that I'm using since the first got full of YT videos and it's been happening for little over a month (which is when I had my new external Hard Drive).

I put all of my old footage on my new hard drive and am now back to using my old External Hard Drive and the problem is has gone. I can now record again with 1080p@60fps and it feels soooooo good.

I want to thank the people who have helped me. Eventhough you didn't find the problem, I still appreciate you taking the time to help this guy out.

I hope that (by me fixing my problem) other people will now see that recording to an external Hard Drive can cause these infamous Encoding issues.

I leave you guys with my YouTube Channel and hope that you enjoy watching my videos just as much as I enjoy making them. :)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmdxeO7SRCBDC4Yc090mOVQ
 
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