Question / Help Encoding Overloading Even With Low CPU Usage

I apparently have no clue what I am doing.

I've been trying for weeks now to get OBS studio to work with my laptop, and nothing is going right.

I'd love to be able to stream, but with a .58mbs Upload speed, that isn't possible without the worst quality in the world.
So, my second option is doing recordings. But I can't even do that. No matter how low I set my settings, the x264 Encoder that you're given by default overloads.

I've taken CPU usage from an average of 50-60% down to 10-16% and its STILL giving me this error and causing freezing/lag in the recordings.

I've been attempting this with WoW, since its a graphically intensive game and (in my opinion) a good test subject. I can have the game run perfectly while a recording is live, but when I click back to OBS, the video is tanking and I'm getting the same message, whether its 50% CPU usage, or 10%.

Another thing I've tested is recording a drawing session in GIMP. 3 hours and 20 minutes of footage were wasted because when I checked in the end, the Encoding was overloading. The only other program I had running was Youtube for my music playlist.

Its rather frustrating that no matter what I try, my videos suck because I can't seem to stop the stupid encoder from overloading.

I've attached what should be the log file for my current session.
I'm working on attempting an emulated game, and was having some sound issues so sorry if things read confusingly.
 

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This could be whatever you are saving your video to (hard drive, SSD, etc.) just not keeping up with writing the file. Try saving your videos to a drive separate from your games, OS, and stuff like that.
 
This could be whatever you are saving your video to (hard drive, SSD, etc.) just not keeping up with writing the file. Try saving your videos to a drive separate from your games, OS, and stuff like that.

The only other drive my laptop has is a disk drive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe I can safely save anything to that drive.

A flash drive might be feasible? But the only ones I have are 2GB, and those don't have their own RAM..

(Also, apologies for such a late reply. My asthma hit me like a truck and I'm only now starting to recover)

I can record emulated just fine, its uses about 7-10% of the CPU. It seems like anything over 10% is when it starts to overload.
There's a couple of Steam games I'll also be testing out (I.E. Evoland 2 and various RPG games).. I just can't do anything, if its the drive being overloaded, until my S/O finishes upgrading his desktop and we finish the space we're preparing for it..
 
So since replies on this are taking so long, I went ahead and tried moving the pathing for my video saves to the (D:) drive.

Results are more or less the same with WoW.

I don't know what it is. I'm feeling very frustrated at this point. I've tried everything I can think of and nothing is working..
 

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