Question / Help Game Fine, Audio Fine, but Video Lags

[Jmorin]

So I'm new to OBS, and game recording in general, so I'm not sure what most of the settings do, and how much my laptop can handle. I tried recording once, and the resulting video had spot on great audio. But the video recording itself was laggy even though the game wasn't. So I would really appreciate if someone could suggest me some fixes to this. Thanks and Merry Christmas!


I think this is the log file:
https://gist.github.com/9d7d0ec850bd4c7efd97eaaa72c2ca9c

 

[OG See OH Zee]

I don't see an attempt on recording as the log doesn't say any frames encoded/skipped/lagged. That said...

01:49:25.210: CPU Name: AMD A4-6210 APU with AMD Radeon R3 Graphics
01:49:25.246: Adapter 1: AMD Radeon(TM) R3 Graphics

AMD APUs are very underpowered in CPU-based performance, especially on laptops. So this would answer the question as to why the recording is skippy.

 

[Jmorin]

Is there any way I could get rid of the skipping, even if it means decreasing the video quality? Or changing priority of OBS in task manager?

 

[OG See OH Zee]

Change the x264 preset to ultrafast and lower the resolution, but there's no guarantee it will do the trick given the specs of your laptop.