Question / Help Game runs fine, video it's self is choppy and laggy

[Craze Ladd]

So whenever I try and record a video with OBS Studio, everything runs fine for me. I try to record Overwatch & during the game, everything is exactly how I want it. But when I go to look at the video, the game is extremely choppy and looks like it runs at 0.0000000005 fps which I very much hate.
Here is my log:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6458e75ac02faa187730cbd944569a95

 

[BornDownUnder]

In your logfile it shows you have 3 sources in the same scene, 2 of those sources are conflicting for recording/streaming purposes:
18:40:55.145: - scene 'Capture':
18:40:55.145: - source: 'Window Capture' (window_capture) <--- Dependent upon what you set to hook into, may also be conflicting.
18:40:55.145: - source: 'Game Capture' (game_capture) <--- Will record the game you have specifically set to capture.
18:40:55.145: - source: 'Display Capture' (monitor_capture) <--- Will record everything displayed on the monitor you have selected for display output.

You need to re-do your scenes and sources so you don't have any conflicting sources, have the monitor capture source in a separate scene by itself and it should improve your performance a lot.

With your system specs you should be able to record at at least 1080p@60fps with the highest quality settings, if after you have re-done your scenes and sources you are still having performance issues, can you upload another logfile with a fresh recording attempt for further troubleshooting.

 

[Craze Ladd]

In your logfile it shows you have 3 sources in the same scene, 2 of those sources are conflicting for recording/streaming purposes:
18:40:55.145: - scene 'Capture':
18:40:55.145: - source: 'Window Capture' (window_capture) <--- Dependent upon what you set to hook into, may also be conflicting.
18:40:55.145: - source: 'Game Capture' (game_capture) <--- Will record the game you have specifically set to capture.
18:40:55.145: - source: 'Display Capture' (monitor_capture) <--- Will record everything displayed on the monitor you have selected for display output.

You need to re-do your scenes and sources so you don't have any conflicting sources, have the monitor capture source in a separate scene by itself and it should improve your performance a lot.

With your system specs you should be able to record at least 1080p@60fps with the highest quality settings, if after you have re-done your scenes and sources you are still having performance issues, can you upload another logfile with a fresh recording attempt for further troubleshooting.

Not only did my videos somehow become better after 10 minutes of it being on my hard drive, it looks perfect now, but I did change the scene and moved them around and it DEFENITLY HELPED so thank you. I appreciate the help :D

 

[BornDownUnder]

No problem at all!

If you don't mind, can you upload another logfile with a few minutes recording attempt in it. It will help me in the future for assisting others with similar hardware to yours.

 

[Craze Ladd]

No problem at all!

If you don't mind, can you upload another logfile with a few minutes recording attempt in it. It will help me in the future for assisting others with similar hardware to yours.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5cf1067a9923d1575ed0df1318945f3f

Sorry it took so long didn't see that message till now. Hope it help :)

 

[BornDownUnder]

Cheers for the upload and no worries on delay!

Your logfile is pretty much the same as mine looks in regards to skipped/lagged frames when I record Battlefield 4, except you are pushing excellent quality settings (To the point of just about lossless quality in comparison to what you see in-game) and from what I can gather the game engine of Overwatch is not that optimized (Though I haven't played it, can't handle the characters and really colourful/vibrant graphics, I have a preference for realism though I love Quake style shooters)

Glad it helped!

Spoiler: Logfile Comparison

Your logfile frame statistics:
22:00:29.154: Output 'adv_file_output': Total encoded frames: 10913
22:00:29.154: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 10914
22:00:29.154: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 4 (0.0%)
22:00:29.154: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 1 (0.0%)

My logfile frame statistics:
01:37:39.194: Output 'adv_file_output': Total encoded frames: 117304
01:37:39.194: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 117312
01:37:39.194: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 27 (0.0%)
01:37:39.194: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 8 (0.0%)
Just need to multiply yours roughly by 10.