Question / Help Everything is recording choppy and low quality, no matter what settings I use. Help!

[PuraCera]

Hi. So I am not very tech savvy, but I have tried all sorts of things to fix this problem, and no matter what settings I use or how many different games I try, all my recordings come out the same. Choppy, stuttered, and the screen is always very low quality looking or sort of blurry and pixel-ated. I have attached my log. Please help me find the right settings!


19:14:32.456: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
19:14:32.456: CPU Speed: 3293MHz
19:14:32.457: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
19:14:32.457: Physical Memory: 8172MB Total, 4646MB Free
19:14:32.457: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 14393 (revision: 1198; 64-bit)
19:14:32.457: Running as administrator: false
19:14:32.457: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
19:14:32.457: Portable mode: false
19:14:32.466: OBS 17.0.0 (64bit, windows)
19:14:32.466: ---------------------------------
19:14:32.467: ---------------------------------
19:14:32.467: audio settings reset:
19:14:32.467: samples per sec: 44100
19:14:32.467: speakers: 2
19:14:32.469: ---------------------------------
19:14:32.469: Initializing D3D11..
19:14:32.469: Available Video Adapters:
19:14:32.470: Adapter 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
19:14:32.470: Dedicated VRAM: 2113601536
19:14:32.470: Shared VRAM: 4284741632
19:14:32.470: output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true
19:14:32.473: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (0)
19:14:32.966: D3D11 loaded sucessfully, feature level used: 45056
19:14:33.463: ---------------------------------
19:14:33.463: video settings reset:
19:14:33.463: base resolution: 1920x1080
19:14:33.463: output resolution: 1920x1080
19:14:33.463: downscale filter: Bilinear
19:14:33.463: fps: 60/1
19:14:33.463: format: NV12
19:14:33.465: ---------------------------------
19:14:33.467: [CoreAudio encoder]: CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded
19:14:33.470: [AMF Encoder] Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.
19:14:33.470: [AMF Encoder] Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.
19:14:33.483: NVENC supported
19:14:33.574: Couldn't find VLC installation, VLC video source disabled
19:14:33.584: No blackmagic support
19:14:33.702: ---------------------------------
19:14:33.702: Loaded Modules:
19:14:33.702: win-wasapi.dll
19:14:33.702: win-mf.dll
19:14:33.702: win-dshow.dll
19:14:33.702: win-decklink.dll
19:14:33.702: win-capture.dll
19:14:33.702: vlc-video.dll
19:14:33.702: text-freetype2.dll
19:14:33.702: rtmp-services.dll
19:14:33.702: obs-x264.dll
19:14:33.702: obs-transitions.dll
19:14:33.702: obs-text.dll
19:14:33.702: obs-qsv11.dll
19:14:33.702: obs-outputs.dll
19:14:33.702: obs-filters.dll
19:14:33.702: obs-ffmpeg.dll
19:14:33.702: image-source.dll
19:14:33.702: frontend-tools.dll
19:14:33.702: enc-amf.dll
19:14:33.702: coreaudio-encoder.dll
19:14:33.702: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
19:14:33.704: All scene data cleared
19:14:33.704: ------------------------------------------------
19:14:33.730: WASAPI: Device 'Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)' initialized
19:14:33.730: [WASAPISource::WASAPISource] Device '{0.0.1.00000000}.{12471175-c2cc-4e9c-abee-0d0a38d69aa3}' not found. Waiting for device
19:14:33.842: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 23 milliseconds
19:14:36.201: Switched to scene 'Scene'
19:14:36.202: ------------------------------------------------
19:14:36.202: Loaded scenes:
19:14:36.202: - scene 'Scene':
19:14:36.202: - source: 'Overwatch' (game_capture)
19:14:36.202: - source: 'Text (GDI+)' (text_gdiplus)
19:14:36.202: ------------------------------------------------

 

[Harold]

That log doesn't show a recording attempt.

 

[PuraCera]

how about this one?

 

[Harold]

Simple output mode
indistinguishable recording quality
flv format
software low cpu use encoder.

 

[PuraCera]

Thank you! That seems to have fixed the quality issue; the picture is crystal clear now but I am still having just as many problems as before with the skipping and stuttering. Here's an updated log. Any suggestions?

 

[Harold]

your system can't handle 1080p60

 

[PuraCera]

lowered to 720p30 and everything seems to be working great! only minor stutters every 15 min or so but nothing bad. thanks so much for your help!