Question / Help Help all my recordings are blurry

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JoshuaMichael

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Hi, im very new to OBS and i wanted to record csgo footage in my computer but its blurry.
Ive tried rendering it into 720,1080,and my native resolution 1366x768.
Ive copied a bunch of settings from youtube but none of them lead me to a good quality video.

If it helps my specs are:
Intel I3 7100 3.9Ghz
R7 240 2Gb DDR5
8 Gigs of Ram DDR4

Is it because i have a potato pc or am i doing something wrong?
Ive reinstalled Obs 3 times btw. Please help
 
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BornDownUnder

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Very sorry for the late reply,

From your logfile:
11:59:20.918: Output 'simple_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 106 (3.8%)
You have some GPU rendering lag going on. Good news is there is no output of CPU (Encoding) lag at all from your short test run.

Your recordings will be blurry due to the output resolution you have selected. Increasing that will help a lot.
Try using medium settings in-game.
Capping your fps will help a lot to reduce the load on your GPU.
Using superfast or even Ultrafast preset will reduce quality a bit, will greatly decrease the workload required by your CPU though.

Your CPU is a dual-core with hyper threading (2 physical cores, 2 virtual) which will definitely hinder output performance when using x264 encoding, which uses the CPU and gets quite intensive at veryfast or slower presets.
Your GPU is not the greatest though it should be fine when using x264 preset as long as your frame rates are stable and your not pushing the in-game video settings too high for the GPU to handle.

That being said, below is a link from YouTube (Video is uploaded in Turkish, used google translator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxl6DuRnnT0
Video Description:
Video Settings in Medium Settings = at least 90 fps. processor i3 7100
In Medium Settings = 130 fps minimum.
In High Settings = at least 80.
At high settings video = 50 fps minimum.
I recommend that you take your video card and play it fluently in the suggestion videos, I normally play more fluently.
 
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BornDownUnder

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If you don't already, by far the best way to reduce input lag whilst maintaining the best visually quality settings you can is to cap your fps in-game to your monitor refresh rate, or if you get screen tearing then 1-3 frames above usually resolves it.
I recommend to use MSI AfterBurner or EVGA Precision, try to avoid V-Sync as it can induce input latency.

If after capping your fps you still have rendering lag, then look towards lowering your in-game quality settings, starting with the heaviest performance impact such as:
Anti-Aliasing (MSAA)
Lighting/Shadow
Particle effect quality
Object draw distance
Environment draw distance
Texture quality, etc
It is fairly universal for games in that order from my testing, while other games implement AA in the form of FXAA or SMAA, which is very good on performance, some games are just terribly optimized.
 
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