Question / Help Game and OBS says playing/recording 60fps but game and output video lags.

[IKindaLikeIt]

Im fairly new to using obs and I have tried looking up the solution for my problem but cant seem to find one. Both my game, which is Apex Legends, and obs says im recording 60fps and playing with those frames but seem to be choppy. Game never seems to go below 60fps I've seen it go up a couple frames but thats it, and obs says recording 60fps but video is also choppy. It doesnt seem like a gpu overload but im not sure, I need help.

I also dropped the frames on obs down to 59.94fps for that log file

 

[carlmmii]

23:37:43.186: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
23:37:43.186: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Writing file 'C:/Users/fxcko/Videos/2020-05-17 23-37-41.mkv'...
23:37:43.347: [AMF] <Id: 3> Initial Frame Latency is 128857500 nanoseconds.
23:49:55.399: Stopping recording due to hotkey
23:49:55.681: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'C:/Users/fxcko/Videos/2020-05-17 23-37-41.mkv' stopped
23:49:55.681: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
23:49:55.681: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 43831
23:49:55.681: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 43906
23:49:55.682: ==== Recording Stop ================================================

According to your logs, the recording is perfect.

If you're playing your recording back with the default "Movies & TV" app in windows, it will appear choppy -- it does not handle high framerate playback correctly. VLC should be used instead.

 

[IKindaLikeIt]

23:37:43.186: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
23:37:43.186: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Writing file 'C:/Users/fxcko/Videos/2020-05-17 23-37-41.mkv'...
23:37:43.347: [AMF] <Id: 3> Initial Frame Latency is 128857500 nanoseconds.
23:49:55.399: Stopping recording due to hotkey
23:49:55.681: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'C:/Users/fxcko/Videos/2020-05-17 23-37-41.mkv' stopped
23:49:55.681: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
23:49:55.681: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 43831
23:49:55.681: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 43906
23:49:55.682: ==== Recording Stop ================================================

According to your logs, the recording is perfect.

If you're playing your recording back with the default "Movies & TV" app in windows, it will appear choppy -- it does not handle high framerate playback correctly. VLC should be used instead.

I dont use that specific app, I use windows media player but would that be the same boat kinda thing?

 

[carlmmii]

Same deal. It does not handle >30fps correctly.

 

[IKindaLikeIt]

Same deal. It does not handle >30fps correctly.

Then from what you say the only thing that would come to mind on why it would lag would be internet speed and obs just simply records it. I didnt even think about that, feel kind of dumb.

edit: thank you though for taking time to explain it even tho i just needed to think about it lol