Question / Help Got new monitor and now OBS lags (MANY PROBLEMS)

[BK-Morpheus]

Don't know...none of your last two logs contains any recording or streaming session.
The second link for example....OBS started at 21:39 and closed at 21:39 as well (OBS was running 4 seconds).

 

[CrustedNut]

Yesterday, I switched back to my old monitor, just to see how things worked recording on it, and I couldn't handle the 60Hz (too choppy), however I did notice that when I switched to the old one my ingame FPS was capped at 60, keep in mind that I had the cap set to unlimited and I had V-SYNC turned off. I searched around and went into my Nvidia control panel where it showed that the program Fortnite indeed had V-SYNC turned on, I disabled it and that fixed that problem. The weird part is, is that I switched back to my new monitor (1440p 144Hz) and I tried to record and stream again just for the fun of it. For some reason everything runs smooth now. So, I'm not sure how the choppiness was fixed however turning V-SYNC off in the Nvidia control panel seemed to change something about it. Any thoughts of what could have fixed it?

 

[Ignitros]

I have run into the same problem. I started with a 2 monitor setup. 55" Vizio 4K UHD 60hz for my main, 32" Vizio 1920 x 1080P 60hz for my second that I use to monitor my stream. I never had any rendering lag on COD Warzone using 3840 x 2160P with all graphics on ultra and rendering it down to 1080P 60hz, I'd see 60 FPS typically and I would see rendering times of 0.5ms - 0.7ms. I swapped out the 55" down to a 32" LG 2540 x 1440P 144hz monitor and now I get render times of 2.5ms or more and lots of missed frames due to rendering lag. I swapped out the monitor because I felt I was losing many gunfights due to low refresh rate. I was right about that, I didn't think a 60hz refresh was such a penalty. I typically see 120 FPS now.

PC is Ryzen 3800X, RTX 2080 Super Founders both water cooled, 32gb Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 3600, ROG Crosshair Hero VIII mobo, Corsair MP510 2tb NVME SSD dedicated for recordings, Corsair MP510 500gb NVME SSD for the OS.

 

[Ignitros]

Here is the log file

https://obsproject.com/logs/A5zcf8ISD2VmerMN

https://obsproject.com/logs/daEeWOrzUgXZyGoF

 

[Hitormiss1120]

I've recently gotten a new monitor with a higher resolution and refresh rate than my previous ( New monitor: 27inch 2560x1440 144Hz), my old one is now to my left and its 24inch 1920x1080 60Hz. Ever since I got this new monitor my OBS videos have been super laggy and low quality. I've adjusted the bitrate, resolution scales etc. however nothing seems to be working. When I'm playing my game has no lag what so ever, however the turnout of the video is absolutely terrible. On my old monitor my videos were smooth and high quality. I've checked the CPU usage and its low, and it seems to remain in 60 fps for the majority of my gameplay, however it stutters and such and it's annoying. I'm running a GTX 1080 with an i7-8700k so I wouldn't think I should be getting issues such as these. Please help :( (I'm on OBS 21.1.0)

I just bought a new high-end monitor and was having the same issue, the new monitor is 165hz and my second monitor is only 60hz, after countless hours of playing with the settings I think I found the solution. I had HDR turned on and it was giving me major lag and frame drops, the second I turned HDR off it was working fine even with the different frame rates. If you have HDR on I would try turning it off and see if OBD starts working properly again, hope this helps!

 

[Hitormiss1120]

I just bought a new high-end monitor and was having the same issue, the new monitor is 165hz and my second monitor is only 60hz, after countless hours of playing with the settings I think I found the solution. I had HDR turned on and it was giving me major lag and frame drops, the second I turned HDR off it was working fine even with the different frame rates. If you have HDR on I would try turning it off and see if OBD starts working properly again, hope this helps!

Even with different refresh rates*

 

[MalcoWo]

PC SETUP: Ryzen 7 3700x, EVGA RTX 2060 Super SC Ultra Gaming, 32GB 3200 MHz Corsair RAM, 600Mbps down/25Mbps up (wired internet), Omen 27i IPS LED QHD 165Hz 1440p 1ms response.

STREAM SETUP: NVENC(new), 1080P, 60FPS, 6000Kbps, profile - high

PROBLEM: I had the same issue as the original post. Games were running smoothly (Apex Legends, VALORANT, etc.), but streaming software/stream was lagging even though CPU was at 10% usage.

Capping max frame rate in Nvidia settings will work. However, I refused to believe my rtx 2060 super couldn't handle the stream and game at the same time, and I wanted to make use of my upgraded monitor.

SOLUTION: Right-click the streaming app icon (OBS, SLOBS, etc.), click properties, and check the box that says "Run as administrator" under the compatibility tab. This is supposed to move the streaming app to a higher priority, so the GPU will allocate more processing power to the streaming app instead of giving everything to the game.

Depending on the PC setup, there could be lagging at times when there is a lot going on, but the stream should remain stable. I am running max settings with an animated stream overlay and have not had any issues at all while streaming.