Question / Help Encoding overloading?

[Rob Ainscough]

I've searched for solutions to this problem and have found MANY answers, unfortunately NONE of them has allowed me to avoid getting this encoding overloaded message.

I have the latest OBS version and record in 4K from Magewell 4K PCIe Pro capture card. OBS "was" working fine and capturing my content and it was looking great.

Then for one day it just stopped working well and I started getting the "overloaded message" ... settings were not changed ... the only change was nVidia driver install and some Windows 10 1709 updates.

So I've uninstalled OBS, uninstalled nVidia, ran DDU to clear out nVidia driver settings, re-download nVidia drivers and manually installed, then install OBS again. Still the same problem.

I'm not recording "streams", but I am recording directly from my Magewell 4K Capture card. But what has me puzzled is that OBS and my Magewell 4K capture were working fine, then "something" changed (I suspect Win10 updates) and it's no longer working regardless of settings used.

Any suggestions?

Cheers, Rob.

EDIT: using 7700K CPU with nVidia 1080 GPU and M.2 SSDs with 32GB RAM

 

[Rob Ainscough]

FYI, I was able to resolve this issue with the following steps:
1. Uninstall OBS and be sure to select "remove settings"
2. Download latest nVidia drivers
3. Download DDU (from 3DGURU)
4. Boot into Safe mode
5. Run DDU to clean out any nVidia driver references
6. Boot back into normal mode
7. Manually install the nVidia drivers (downloaded from step 2)
8. Reboot after driver install
9. Install OBS latest version
10. Let OBS run it's "configuration" Beta option (for Recording not streaming)
11. In OBS, goto settings, Set to 4K resolution, select x264 (software), select Indistinguishable quality and select MOV file format output

This solved the overload error and produces a MOV file that works well in Adobe's CC 2018 Premier Pro.

Cheers, Rob.