Question / Help Having issues recording video with Studio

[Aerokitsune]

Hello! This is my first post on the forums, and hopefully the one that solves my problem. Basically, Overwatch and OBS Studio are not cooperating. I wish to record at around 720p60 and still be able to play at a solid 144 fps at 1080p. I don't know if I'm asking for too much there, but regardless, the framerate I am getting is unplayable in game. I even tried switching to NVENC and using my second GPU (I have two GTX 770s) and lightening the load on the processor (an i7 4770k at 4.2 GHz). I also turned down the game settings but to no avail. I could not find another post on the forum that matches my primary concerns. My specs are down below if that helps. I just want to know a few things:

1. Is 720p60 or even 720p30 still achievable while keeping a solid 144 fps in game? I can crank down the graphics settings as low as they can go if it means that I can record quality videos.
2. Is NVENC the way to go with this? I'm only recording local files, and I would like them to be pretty high quality.
3. Are there good settings that make this plausible? I'll post my current settings down below as well.

Thank you for your patience. I hope someone can answer.

SPECS:
i7 4770k @ 4.2GHz
2x GTX 770 reference cards
16 GB of DDR3 RAM
500 GB SSD
And a SUPER crazy liquid CPU cooler

My current settings are:
Recording format: FLV
Encoder: NVENC H.264
Rescale Output: 1280x720 (Bilinear filtering)
Rate control: CBR with 5000 bitrate
Keyframe intervals: 0
Preset: Low latency High performance
Profile: Main
Level: auto
Use Two Pass encoding: Checked (yes)
GPU: 0 (I assume this is the first GPU?)

 

[RytoEX]

I wish to record at around 720p60 and still be able to play at a solid 144 fps at 1080p. I don't know if I'm asking for too much there, but regardless, the framerate I am getting is unplayable in game.

You may be asking too much. Overwatch hits the CPU hard, and you're trying to do things that make the encoding harder (playing the game and recording it at different framerates).

1. Is 720p60 or even 720p30 still achievable while keeping a solid 144 fps in game? I can crank down the graphics settings as low as they can go if it means that I can record quality videos.
2. Is NVENC the way to go with this? I'm only recording local files, and I would like them to be pretty high quality.
3. Are there good settings that make this plausible? I'll post my current settings down below as well.

1. Have you tried 720p@30f? Have you checked what effect turning Overwatch's settings lower does to your in-game FPS while recording? I don't mean to be Socratic. It might be possible, but we don't have your exact hardware and setup to make sure it's possible on your rig.
2. Yes.
   x264 is CPU intensive, and will fight with Overwatch for resources. If you're having framerate issues, hardware encoding is the way to go.
3. Possibly, but we can only make suggestions for you to try. We cannot guarantee that it is possible with your hardware and system setup. For starters, read this guide on high quality recordings. You can probably try Simple Output Mode with Indistinguishable Quality, NVENC, and FLV. If, for some reason, you need to use Advanced Output Mode, you can ignore the parts about multi-track audio.

Please post a complete log file from a recording session where you experience the issues that you're describing. Please also tell us your Nvidia driver version as well. We can't analyze what we can't see.