So, this is probably going to be my last thread regarding this topic. Have made a few in the past, some have temporarily helped to fix the problem. Whenever I record Minecraft in any higher than 60 frames per second with OBS, I get an "Encoding Overloaded" error, and anywhere from around 5% - 64% skipped frames due to encoding (in the stats window). I've tried recording with Task Manager open a few times, my CPU usage is staying mostly below 70% - occasionally spikes up to late 70%, never above 80%. Have tried running OBS with High priority as well as Below Normal priority (someone told me this worked better for them). I've tried running OBS as an Administrator. I've tried disconnecting all monitors other than my main monitor so as to ensure all monitors are running on the same refresh rate (heard of a windows issue that was causing encoding overload in OBS when all monitors were not running on the same refresh rate). In terms of in game settings, I've tried limiting my FPS to 255 (Minecraft doesn't allow any higher) as well as 150 when recording at 144FPS. I also tried enabling a setting labelled "Smooth FPS", which does at it says: smooths your FPS to be a more constant value. Read somewhere that at times, OBS can struggle to encode 1000+ frames into the 240 or 144 frames that you're trying to record at - this setting is supposed to help resolve that, but it hasn't for me. I've tried lowering my resolution to 1280x720 as well - same error as on 1920x1080. As you can see in the attached log file, I have Game Mode, Game DVR, Game Bar... all turned off. I even turned off Nvidia shadowplay to see if that was causing the issue somehow - it wasn't.
However, the thing that's really strange is that sometimes I get no errors at all - everything runs smoothly with no skipped frames. Sometimes this happens when I change a setting, sometimes just randomly. Just is really puzzling to me, the way this isn't a consistent issue - it seems to just pick its days or moments to strike; and I can't seem to locate a factor that might be causing this. Please see the log file below, it's of me attempting to record in 240fps, 75000 CBR bitrate, 1920x1080 (I believe). I also have Psycho Visual Tune as well as Look ahead turned off. I have an RTX 2080 (obviously using Nvenc new encoder), 16gb of RAM, an i7 8700 CPU - all of which are below 40% (CPU normally even below 30%) when recording. I know of people with worse specs who have no issues recording in up to 1200FPS (although obviously that is just truly pointless with minimal difference), so I really don't see how / why my hardware would cause this problem - especially with the % usage being at reasonable levels across the board and no bottlenecking to my knowledge.
Thank you.
However, the thing that's really strange is that sometimes I get no errors at all - everything runs smoothly with no skipped frames. Sometimes this happens when I change a setting, sometimes just randomly. Just is really puzzling to me, the way this isn't a consistent issue - it seems to just pick its days or moments to strike; and I can't seem to locate a factor that might be causing this. Please see the log file below, it's of me attempting to record in 240fps, 75000 CBR bitrate, 1920x1080 (I believe). I also have Psycho Visual Tune as well as Look ahead turned off. I have an RTX 2080 (obviously using Nvenc new encoder), 16gb of RAM, an i7 8700 CPU - all of which are below 40% (CPU normally even below 30%) when recording. I know of people with worse specs who have no issues recording in up to 1200FPS (although obviously that is just truly pointless with minimal difference), so I really don't see how / why my hardware would cause this problem - especially with the % usage being at reasonable levels across the board and no bottlenecking to my knowledge.
Thank you.
