Question / Help Game Smooth (recordings start smooth but not all way through)

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Footygamer89

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Having issues with OBS studio

The gameplay is smooth all the way during playing and the recordings start smooth but then they are not later in the video, they dont stutter the the smoothness quality is clearly not as it was at the start of the video

I have added the log below i have tried so many different settings even scaling down to 720 from the base which is 1080

Any help would be amazing
 

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carlmmii

carlmmii

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Two separate encoding sessions listed in the logs. Do both exhibit the same stuttering on playback?

Code: 
23:27:38.251: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'D:/Youtube/Youtube Footage/2020-04-07 23-24-44.mkv' stopped
23:27:38.252: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
23:27:38.252: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 10417
23:27:38.252: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 10434
This one appears to have no issues at all as far as the rendering/encode.

Code: 
23:57:09.388: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'D:/Youtube/Youtube Footage/2020-04-07 23-34-17.mkv' stopped
23:57:09.388: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
23:57:09.388: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 82281
23:57:09.388: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 82298 (82299 attempted)
23:57:09.388: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 1 (0.0%)
23:57:09.389: ==== Recording Stop ================================================
23:57:09.389: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 104/82297 (0.1%)
This one has 104 frames lost due to encoding lag.

Code: 
23:24:44.294:     lookahead:    true
23:24:44.294:     psycho_aq:    true
Turn both of these settings off in your encoding settings. These features use CUDA to perform, which puts extra strain on your GPU outside of the nvenc module, which is the likely cause of encoding lag.


If that first video does have the stuttering issue that you're mentioning, then that means that whatever is being captured within OBS is stuttering (either the source itself is stuttering, or the capture method isn't smooth), or whatever program you're using to play back your video is actually stuttering.
 
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Footygamer89

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carlmmii said:
Two separate encoding sessions listed in the logs. Do both exhibit the same stuttering on playback?

Code: 
23:27:38.251: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'D:/Youtube/Youtube Footage/2020-04-07 23-24-44.mkv' stopped
23:27:38.252: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
23:27:38.252: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 10417
23:27:38.252: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 10434
This one appears to have no issues at all as far as the rendering/encode.

Code: 
23:57:09.388: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'D:/Youtube/Youtube Footage/2020-04-07 23-34-17.mkv' stopped
23:57:09.388: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
23:57:09.388: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 82281
23:57:09.388: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 82298 (82299 attempted)
23:57:09.388: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 1 (0.0%)
23:57:09.389: ==== Recording Stop ================================================
23:57:09.389: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 104/82297 (0.1%)
This one has 104 frames lost due to encoding lag.

Code: 
23:24:44.294:     lookahead:    true
23:24:44.294:     psycho_aq:    true
Turn both of these settings off in your encoding settings. These features use CUDA to perform, which puts extra strain on your GPU outside of the nvenc module, which is the likely cause of encoding lag.


If that first video does have the stuttering issue that you're mentioning, then that means that whatever is being captured within OBS is stuttering (either the source itself is stuttering, or the capture method isn't smooth), or whatever program you're using to play back your video is actually stuttering.
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Hey thanks for the reply

Had another issue with recording looked back at a recording and saw pauses in the video again game was smooth attached a log file again
 

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Footygamer89

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I use various ones and it froze in the same place on all of them it even did it in Adobe premiere

And the D drive is a internal hard drive normal hard drive
 
carlmmii

carlmmii

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Try recording to your C drive directly (if it's a solid state). There is a high possibility that your hard drive is the bottleneck.
 
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Footygamer89

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carlmmii said:
Try recording to your C drive directly (if it's a solid state). There is a high possibility that your hard drive is the bottleneck.
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So moved to SSD drive and just did another recording test others were fine but this one at the end of the log i have attached had issues as you can see i updated the graphics card driver aswell just before this one to make sure that it was the most recent one
 

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JEL

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If I may chime in with what could be related:

I have come across a similar problem when recording the game 'BeamNG'

I use the game in windowed-mode, and OBS records a smooth game-video ONLY when I do NOT have focus on the game-window.

So, if I view OBS while recording, the resulting video is smooth.

If I view the game-window (As I need to when I want to control things in the game of course) then I get stutter in the resulting video.

I suspect this is an audio-issue. Perhaps an audio-driver problem (I seem to have the latest realtek drivers, so unsure how to fix this)

The reason I suspect it's an audio-driver issue is because the sound is gone whenever the focus is NOT on the game-window (For example, when I view the OBS preview window there is no game-sound)
And also, several years ago, I had the same problem where a game would stutter whenever I used the steering-wheel (A hardware logitech steering-wheel) and that stutter went away when I updated the sound-drivers back then (Also realtek)

Maybe this can be of help to somebody?
 
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