Framerate drop when OBS is just turned on, not even recording. TLOU PT II

[Girthinhaler7]

I'm having an issue and it seems to be specifically in The Last of Us 2 Remastered.

When OBS is simply open the game will drop the framerate from 90-100 to 70-80. It's bizarre. The FPS drop happens the moment OBS is opened and the performance returns to normal the moment you close OBS. I just played through TLOU 1 with a replay buffer on all the time and not once did I have any related FPS drops so I have no idea what's going on here. I've played tons of games and re-tested them and it only ever happens in TLOU II and happens without even recording.

The game has similar performance drops when I turn on Instant Replay for Nvidia Shadowplay and also when I turn on Steam Recording (which has the lowest performance impact)

Anybody had this before / have a solution? I'm guessing as its happening with all 3 recording software I have available that it's just a quirk of the game itself as i've never noticed it before.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

There are LOTS of threads on this. My understanding is that starting OBS causes it to process ALL Scenes, for seamless/instant changes... so most of the work is already being done (by design) ... other than encoding output... all the rendering work is taking place once you start OBS Studio.

As for that specific game, I'd guess something specific to it and OS layer graphics driver/output, and another (related or not) possibly that your system is near bottlenecking, and whatever your settings are on that one title is driving your system into overload/bottleneck (in some component)