Question / Help In-game fine, lag in OBS even offline

[1moreszn]

https://obsproject.com/logs/T929fzGw4llIhxOG
There's my last log.

I'm running my games perfectly fine at at least 90 fps. I've tried setting up with auto config, x264 and both nvencs, 720@30 and 1080@30, lowering my bitrate, etc. Just about everything short of a clean reinstall. I noticed the game is stuttering on OBS even when I'm offline, and that the stuttering coincides with the fps counter at the bottom dropping. My temps seem fine and my usage %s are always around 40-50% and rarely much higher (I don't stream anything particularly demanding). Any ideas?

 

[Narcogen]

It's non-performant to have multiple game captures in a single scene.

17:48:44.511: - source: 'agtFHK' (game_capture)
17:48:44.511: - source: 'cc' (game_capture)
17:48:44.511: - source: 'mordhaU' (game_capture)
17:48:44.511: - source: 'race the sun' (game_capture)
17:48:44.511: - source: 'wow' (game_capture)
17:48:44.511: - source: ' szxcasgas' (game_capture)
17:48:44.511: - source: 'scp' (game_capture)
17:48:44.511: - source: 'outlast 2' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'FACRAFT' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'css' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'kf2' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'webcam' (dshow_input)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'black ops 4' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'l4d2' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'fallout new vegas' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'setup' (text_gdiplus)
17:48:44.512: - source: '1944' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'HOI4' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'Window Capture' (window_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'hitman 1' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'silent ass' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'blood money' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'absolution' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'hitman contracts' (game_capture)
17:48:44.512: - source: 'Browser' (browser_source)

17:51:16.625: Output 'simple_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 658 (7.6%)

Rendering lag caused by GPU overload.

https://obsproject.com/wiki/GPU-overload-issues

17:51:16.626: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 4252/8554 (49.7%)

Significant encoder overload. You are overloading your CPU.

https://obsproject.com/wiki/General-Performance-And-Encoding-Issues

17:48:53.112: [x264 encoder: 'simple_h264_stream'] preset: slow

This is why. Any preset slower than veryfast uses up significantly more CPU resources for marginally more quality. Most rigs cannot even do medium, let alone slow.

Start with veryfast and then go slower a step at a time, and if you get encoder overload, back off.