Question / Help FPS and Game FPS

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layarion

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1) if i set OBS to record at 60 FPS, and my game dips below 60, what does that mean for the quality of my video?
2) what's it mean when i'm looking at my recording frame by frame and i notice some frames are duplicates? not all of them. is this what it means when OBS is dropping frames? i get these duplicates even when i record at a low 30...a tiny bit less often though.

3) based on Sapiens reply, why does it happen when i record at 30 frames but the game never goes below 40 and is usually at 60?

i'm using these settings

i5-4690k
16GB RAM
GTX 770 2GB
Game and recording save to my 250GB SSD which doesn't seem to have any issue with it what so ever
The game i'm working on my project with is 7 Days to Die on Ultra and it maxes my gpu on occasion

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Sapiens

Sapiens

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Frames are typically duplicated when your GPU is overloaded and/or can't provide as many frames to encode as you specify (such as when it can't maintain 60 FPS and you're streaming at 60 FPS).
 
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layarion

Member
Sapiens said:
Frames are typically duplicated when your GPU is overloaded and/or can't provide as many frames to encode as you specify (such as when it can't maintain 60 FPS and you're streaming at 60 FPS).
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why does it happen even at low recording rates like 30-40 fps though?
 
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fatmatrow

Member
I stream in 60fps (I use an elgato hd60) and I play on xbox one. Even when i change to backwards compatible games that are 30 fps (and some drop in game too) I keep stream output to 60fps. It fills in the missing frames and actually makes the non 60fps look better on stream and recordings. I want to say it kind of upconverts the feed by duplicating frames but I don't know if that's technically correct. Or I'm crazy
 
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