Help, I've no idea where to put this but also, I don't quite know what I'm doing.

[NightLock]

Hello all.

I would like to inform everyone who is willing to help on a rather difficult situation that I am in and currently does not know on what to do. I recently installed OBS as a means to record my screen without too much effort going into it. However, as much of a pain troubleshooting this program, I did manage to have it run somewhat smoothly but still isn't good enough for say, a full length video to be posted.

Since it seems I cannot share any form of a video format, this might be second best in helping what isn't already there:

https://obsproject.com/logs/0qg73BUwMJ65DnHv

The main issue is that the quality of the video is still quite laggy despite having a lot of the original settings changed from various of tutorials and guides mainly from YouTube explaining how to get the best possible result for your recordings.

Overall, if anyone has some answers as to why this still keeps happening, please let me know.

 

[PaiSand]

The main issue is that the quality of the video is still quite laggy despite having a lot of the original settings changed from various of tutorials and guides mainly from YouTube explaining how to get the best possible result for your recordings.

Yeah, this is the issue. Don't follow this old guides.
Run the Auto-configuration Wizard (tools menu) and apply the settings it gives. DO NOT CHANGE THEM. Now, restart OBS. Yes, before you continue you need to restart OBS.
Never touch the advance output mode. Keep it on simple output.
Test.
Use VLC player to watch the recordings.

 

[koala]

Forget all tutorials that tell what settings you should choose. Every system is different, and a tutorial only applies to similar systems, similar to the machine the tutorial maker has himself. Most tutorials are targeted to gamer machines, and your machine is no gamer machine, since it doesn't have a discrete GPU. Your machine is a PC aimed for office use, since it runs with the integrated iGPU of your Intel CPU.

Use Tools->Auto Configuration wizard. Choose optimize for recording.
The wizard will choose simple output mode. Keep this. Make sure it chose the QSV/Quicksync hardware encoder.

Your recordings suffer from GPU overload. You recorded something that uses (too) much GPU resources and competes with OBS. Try to configure that something to use less GPU resources. If it is a game, limit fps to 60 or 30 and turn on vsync in the game options.

You could check Settings->Video after a successful test and check output resolution. It might be the auto configuration wizard chose 1280x720 instead of your display resolution of 1920x1080. If there are no lags or stuttering, you might try 1920x1080 as output resolution as well.
If you're satisfied with the recordings, revisit settings->Output and look at "Recording Quality". If you want slightly better quality, choose "Indistinguishable Quality" instead of "High Quality" at the expense of recording file size.

 

[NightLock]

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for the help from both of you.

Technology has never been easy and seeing it work as an end result is quite satisfying.

Again, THANK YOU so much for saving me even more pain and headaches if not for your quick responses as well.

You have my eternal gratitude.