Question / Help how to p[lay games at 144 fps but record at 60 fps

[xghoststrike1]

I have a 144hz asus monitor and a very nice pc and I want to record gameplay and make videos for my friends and I.I haven been messing with OBS for months now and have come to no resolution. I want to record 1080p 60 fps gameplay while playing at 144fps. I DO NOT want to record at 144fps.

My current issue is when I record ANYTHING over 60 fps OBS just shits out and i get about 20-30 fps fps. I will watch the fps counter at the bottom of left of OBS and it will show me the fps for what I am recording. I don't even have to be recording, just have OBS open and look at preview. If I frame lock my game to 60fps with vsync then the footage looks good but my games look horrible. If play at my normal max fps my footage looks horrible. I cant play my game with one of two things looking like garbage.

How do i record like people who do youtube? I watch a lot of youtuber s and they all play at 100+ fps and they do 1080p fps videos. Are they using a program other than OBS? If I use shadowplay I get great footage but my mic will pickup every little bit of noise. AC, PC fans, keyboard and breathing. Can i use showplay with some kind of noise gate or something?

 

[DARKDEMON9801]

I have roughly the same setup and I've been reasearching this for a while now. I have been trying to play on my 2560x1440@144 monitor and record at 1920x1080@60. There seems to be no option to do this as far as I can tell. If you have two monitors at the same resolutions, try going into your Nvidia control panel and upping your hz on the monitor that you're playing while you record on the monitor at 60.

Edit: Should have mentioned that you would be cloning the monitor you are playing on with the secondary monitor or an elgato game capture, then adjusting the HZ of your 144 hz monitor back from 60. Not 100% sure this works but is worth a shot if you have the chance.

 

[BK-Morpheus]

If you can provide a log with a proper streaming/recording attempt at 144fps, It's possible that we can see, which component or setting is to blame.
Most people simply don't understand that OBS has to access the frame buffer, resize/scale and maybe even filter the image to render your scene composition and this process is all done with GPU power, even if you only have OBS opened, without recording/rendering.
Therefore you need to leave some GPU power for OBS, but with uncapped fps, you force either the CPU or the GPU to become a bottleneck (and this is true for extreme high end GPU/CPU systems as well).