I Clicked 'Stop recording' a second time and it cut my recording

[johnnymayer23]

I was recording my screen and when i wanted to end the recording i clicked 'stop recording'. I realizedf it was taking super long for a 10-12 minute recording so i clicked on it again. i went to check my recording and half the footage was choppy and the recording's total runtime was cut at the end, assuming because i didnt allow it to load everything fully. is there any way i can recover the "full version" from obs?

 

[koala]

That's a sign that you severely overloaded your computer with the recording, so the video encoder within OBS had to skip many frames, and at the end it wasn't able to catch up at all, so starting from some point in time, nothing at all was written to the video file. This is lost.

Use Tools->Auto Configuration Wizard to create a configuration tailored to your hardware.

 

[johnnymayer23]

so the problem wasn't entirely me pressing the stop recording button but me overloading my computer then?

what will the configuration help in this scenario?

 

[koala]

The auto configuration will test the performance of your computer and generate appropriate settings. Not so powerful computers will get lower resolution and lower fps. If this is too low for you and you afterwards increase resolution or fps manually, you might get choppy and truncated footage again.

Overloading is the cause of the hanging stop recording, and the hanging stop will go away once you don't overload your computer any more. Usually, the click on "stop recording" is instant and you will see the "stopping recording" only for a flash if at all.

 

[johnnymayer23]

thank you

 

[karlhoelscher]

somehow I thinks the auto configure wizzrd needs an update, I have a i7-900 32 gigs ram and a RTX 3070 and ,m2 nvme ssd drives 2560x1440 display, and it reccomended to downscale to 1080 at 30fps.... I mean if the wizzard doesnt think a 3070 can record 1440 at 30fps....