Question / Help I'm just confused...

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Geronimp

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I have a laptop with pretty decent specs

Intel I7-5500U 2.40GHz
Nvidia GeForce 820M 2GB
8GB RAM

What I'm confused about is that with these specs you would think I would have a pretty smooth recording. But I don't, I get a very choppy video.

I tried everything, lowering the settings of the game, adjusting the settings in obs itself, and even lowering my own resolution. Nothing works. Even Age of Empires 3, a game from 2005, gets a choppy video. My FPS is fine in-game, small drops here and there but nothing major.
But why? Why do I still get choppy videos?

Edit: Tried out bandicam and that works out fine, highest quality infact. So why does bandicam get me more high quality videos than obs?
 
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PancakeBunny

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You and me both, champ. A lot of people have been asking about sudden dropped frames in the past few days with no blanket solution.
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

Forum Admin
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/please-post-a-log-with-your-issue-heres-how.23074/

However, that CPU is pretty weak, even for laptop CPUs. It's a U model, which is very lower power, and makes it poorly suited to the task of video encoding. It's a relatively slow, dual-core CPU. I think your expectations are a bit unrealistic.

To answer your question about Bandicam, is that Bandicam doesn't encode video. It's just dumping raw frames to disk. You could do this in OBS too if you want, but it's not recommended as the file size will be extremely high. Please provide a clean log file and we can suggest what needs to be changed.

To make a clean log file, first restart OBS, then start your stream/recording for ~30 seconds and stop it again. Make sure you replicate any issues as best you can, which means having any games/apps open and captured, etc. When you're done select Help > Log Files > Upload Current Log File. Copy the URL and paste it here.
 
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