Question / Help High Quality settings

[CajuiN]

When I try to record my CS:GO gameplay it looks very laggy. I have used the settings (x264) from the OBS Studio Guide but it still looks bad.

Log - https://gist.github.com/anonymous/97048c15f774c78c93ac302bb65025f0




I also have a few questions:

1.) Can a 60hz monitor make the recording lag?
2.) Can recording to the C: Drive make the recording have lag spikes?
3.) Should the CRF value be? I have it at 15 but should it be in between 15 and 25?

 

[Suslik V]

1) No.
2) No.
3) Yes.

Try to enable v-sync.

 

[CajuiN]

1) No.
2) No.
3) Yes.

Try to enable v-sync.

What would be your suggested CRF value?

 

[VanDuits]

2) if it´s a HDD - yes could be

 

[Suslik V]

Settings>Output>Output Mode: Simple.

 

[CajuiN]

2) if it´s a HDD - yes could be

That's most likely the reason my videos are so laggy.

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

That's most likely the reason my videos are so laggy.

hdd is not a problem, pls stop with this hdd nonsense, get your avg disk transfer and compare it to bitrate of recording divided by 8
as @Suslik V said, enable vsync and use simple mode x264 low cpu
or quicksync icq=23

 

[Sapiens]

Unless the HDD is failing or you're trying to record lossless video it's incredibly unlikely that the drive itself has anything to do with the problem. Running without vsync or some type of frame rate limit is a much more likely culprit.

 

[CajuiN]

Unless the HDD is failing or you're trying to record lossless video it's incredibly unlikely that the drive itself has anything to do with the problem. Running without vsync or some type of frame rate limit is a much more likely culprit.

How would I know all of that? I got this program yesterday and I only know the basics. Like what is "lossless"?

 

[Sapiens]

As the name indicates, lossless compression means without any quality loss at all. File sizes are huge. The point was that you aren't trying to do this, it was just an example of a rare situation where the HDD speed would actually be a factor.

 

[CajuiN]

As the name indicates, lossless compression means without any quality loss at all. File sizes are huge. The point was that you aren't trying to do this, it was just an example of a rare situation where the HDD speed would actually be a factor.

The video still has the same quality as the way it did before even on simple.

 

[Sapiens]

What did you change for the new recording attempt? Have you tried using the low CPU usage encoder in the recording quality preset options? Or one of the hardware encoders like NVENC or QSV? Did you enable vsync or set an alternate type of frame rate limiter in the game?