Question / Help Finished Recording Lags (Video Example and Specs in Description)

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Kite.Fo

New Member
Hey OBS Community.
So I changed from Shadowplay to OBS and in general am fairly new to the whole footage-production.
However, I researched my problem and tried out all the answers that I could find and still doesn't get better.
Basically, when I record Overwatch my game-footage lags extremely, like this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAsylMc0SvA&t=2s extremely laggy. In-game, thats not the case. I opened up OBS preview on my second screen to see if the preview is already laggy during recording and yes, it is.
I tried lowering my bitrate from 40'000 to 15'000 and it still didnt work (keep in mind, im only recording, not streaming).
Whats weird is that when I record Nintendo with my Capture Card, its fine and looks like this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP8PioYfAcY
My settings;
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My Computer Specs
2133 2x4GB Ram,DDR4
7600 intel i5 3.80 processor
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1050 Ti WINDFORCE 2X OC 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
 
BK-Morpheus

BK-Morpheus

Active Member
Where is the log file which shows a stream/recording attempt?
Common mistake would be an GPU overload by not limiting the fps. OBS needs a little GPU headroom to render the scenes.
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

Forum Admin
The important bits of your log:

Code: 
11:04:21.708: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 4319 (14.1%)
11:04:21.709: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 1184/30556 (3.9%)

Since you're using GPU encoding with NVENC, these messages indicate that your GPU is simply overloaded. The most common reason for this is not capping FPS in your game. Make sure you have FPS capped at a reasonable number in Overwatch (and other games you're playing) and see if that helps with this issue.
 
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Kite.Fo

New Member
Fenrir said:
The important bits of your log:

Code: 
11:04:21.708: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 4319 (14.1%)
11:04:21.709: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 1184/30556 (3.9%)

Since you're using GPU encoding with NVENC, these messages indicate that your GPU is simply overloaded. The most common reason for this is not capping FPS in your game. Make sure you have FPS capped at a reasonable number in Overwatch (and other games you're playing) and see if that helps with this issue.
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Thanks, so should I manually lower the FPS until i find a sweetspot or is there a "rule" on how you can figure out the capacity of your GPU?
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

Forum Admin
You generally want to cap FPS at whatever the refresh rate of your monitor is. Any higher is a waste of GPU resources, and any videos claiming otherwise don't actually understand how computers work.
 
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