Question / Help Ideal settings for this build?

[asmcint]

Trying to get OBS set up so that I can record gameplay without conflicting with other programs(namely Razer Cortex, which I need incapable of recording but in a boosted state in order to get decent performance in Dark Souls 3). Unfortunately, I'm running into some problems.

When recording in Dark Souls 3, my framerate just dies, and I get a ton of stutter, Unsure what's happening there. Maybe OBS is shattering a precarious balance of CPU load? Recorded video is also entirely black.
When recording in Dragon Ball Xenoverse, performance is actually above average, but the video recorded skips and stutters horribly(example linked below).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmDtSARmHlo

System specs below, I'd dearly appreciate any help you guys can provide.

CPU: AMD FX-6300 @3.5 GHz
RAM: 8GB DDR3 @1333 MHz
GPU: Sapphire Dual-X Radeon R9 270 w/ Boost & OC
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

 

[FerretBomb]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/

As far as Razer Cortex, chances are very good that it performs a game hooking method that is incompatible with OBS, and is preventing OBS from being able to capture video due to the conflict. Try recording your game with Cortex entirely disabled (or uninstalled if possible) and see if the black screen persists. If OBS is able to capture, you may simply not be able to use Cortex (if memory serves, someone else was having the same problem a month or two ago with a different game, and Cortex was indeed the problem).

 

[asmcint]

I actually have its in-game overlays disabled, so it isn't doing any hooking, or shouldn't be. Still don't understand how it gets the performance gains in DS3, just the stars aligning just right with it or something. I don't question what works so long as it continues to work until we finally get a PC performance patch. Due to that, I'd rather not even touch Cortex, and if doing so is necessary I can forgo recording DS3 gameplay.

Anywho, fixed the performance issue by changing settings around to take some load off the CPU, still getting black screen for DS3 though, filesizes are also unusually low for amount of content attempted to record. Dragon Ball Xenoverse stuttering on playback was also fixed with settings change, just need to adjust bitrate a bit.

 

[Roy Cabaniss]

Same symptoms. I just downloaded and installed OBS on a desktop. Captures a desktop fine. Games... not at all. Black screen. It does have in game audio. DS3, Fallout 4. I've messed around with the settings. In the game capture mode it only says DWM: Monitor Capture. Frankly I am baffled since my setup is really rather vanilla and I would think this would work right out of the box.

CPU: Intel I5 3570 3.4 gHz
Ram: 16 GB
HD: 1 TB hybrid (date) + 256 SSD (OS)
Video: Nvidea GTX 980
Keyboard Corsair Mechanical KB
Mouse: Logitech G502
OS: Windoze 7 professional - Suse Linux, linux Mint, raw kernel compiled