Question / Help Framerate drops in recording/preview only (Recording Res. Evil 2)

[Unconquered]

Eh no luck, figured it was worth a try.

Welp, I don't know guys. I've got some threads open on other forums about the issue, maybe someone on there can pinpoint it for me. Disappointed that no one here has run into this, would've really made life easier. Nevertheless, thank you all for all of your suggestions. If I do ever find a fix, I will be sure to come back and update here, to maybe help someone in my shoes in the future.

Thanks

 

[SwayZoh]

FINALLY someone that posted a video and same game problems im having! Just came here to say ive been having this same problem too. It happens to all my games/ EXCEPT rainbow six siege/blackops4..iunno why. Also; i never get the “stuttery/fps drop” playback issues when i record console games thru elgato to obs. Only when i record pc games thru obs is when i get the issue. I have a youtube channel as well, and its hard to do lets plays/gameplay vids for pc since the issue just makes it look bad.

 

[Chronos Decay]

I having the exactly same problem with Resident Evil 2 Remake. I'm using a GTX 1070 TI for recording, but I got the little stuttering and frame skipping that you related. And I'm not even recording the webcam, just the game, and I'm too not having this problems in the gameplay.

I decided to drop OBS and start using Shadowplay, but OBS has a better quality in the dark footage...

If anyone get to figure this out, I'm listening!

 

[Chronos Decay]

Well, I changed back from OBS to Shadowplay and for my surprise it was too frame skipping and stuttering! It never did that before! And, than, I started searching for a anwser (all over again)... One week later, it seems that I did something that finally change things for better, not only for Shadowplay but for the OBS as well:

Until recentely, I've using my Windows and applications in a normal HD 7200 rpm. Not the best setup for playing games and recording in same time, but it was what I had at that time. And was working really great, no frame skipping or stuttering. So I bought a SSD and moved the Windows and applications to it.

But, the SSD has a low capacity in terms of space (480GB), so I direct the folder that create the vídeo file from Shadowplay to the old HD. That was not a good idea to say at least... Even with temp folder still in SSD, the performance of the video recorded was poor, having like every 10 seconds a frame skipping/stuttering. Constant frame rate's option from Handbrake could improve a little, but not as it one would s

 

[Narcogen]

I am beginning to suspect the 20xx Nvidia drivers are not up to snuff. There are too many users reporting performance issues with no other obvious explanation, and many of them have said it also occurs in other applications, like SLOBS or ShadowPlay.

I seem to see quite a few of these complaints about 20xx series cards, but not about the 16xx series cards.

 

[proxypunk]

Don't wanna dig old bodys from the basement, but...
I can finally tell you (after researching for days):
there are some streamers out there who encounter
lags on Resident Evil Engine games when recording/streaming with OBS,
but they have 0 lags or frame skips on their main monitor!

This has happened to me and my wife, too.
She had a GTX 1660 TI 6GB.
The desired game was RE4 Remake.
Game ran smoothly, but not in the stream!
We had to manually set everything to the lowest setting.

Ofc we thought the GPU was the problem.

So we switched to an RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB
and tried different settings.
Just to see that the only way to stream with no lags
was to set the damn game to lowest settings!

It has to be some setting, that interferes with
the screen recording.
I try to circle the problem and then come back
with results.

 

[ItalicMaze]

The issue OP is having isn't related to hardware utilisation. There's something wrong with how Windows 10/11 interact with certain hardware configs. The stuttering occurs every 20 mins on my current PC, while they occurred every 45 mins on my old PC which had a GTX 1050 Ti, i5 4590 and 8 GB of RAM.

ShadowPlay and Game DVR exhibit stuttering as well, though the latter seems to stutter almost every second. Microsoft and Nvidia are probably the only ones that can fix this, assuming our products aren't actually defective. While some users have found workarounds such as using a fractional FPS and custom refresh rates, those workarounds have their own issues.

I know this is an old thread, but have you resolved the issue by any chance? If so, may I ask how? Anyways, I recommend people with this issue to contact Microsoft and Nvidia, otherwise we may never get a fix. The more voices, the likelier they'll listen.