corbinjames
New Member
Hi all,
When I open OBS, the preview window is lagging about 0.5s behind my real-life movements. When I record something, this lag shows up in the recording and I need to offset the audio in VLC to sync them up. But the weird part is the delay is inconsistent. On one recording I need to delay audio by 0.120 seconds to sync audio and video; another recording made the same session I need to delay audio by 0.550 seconds to sync them. To be clear the picture is clear and moving smoothly, there's just latency between between my actions in real life and when I see them on the screen, whether or not I'm streaming/recording. I've used OBS for a couple years without bumping into this issue, and didn't change any settings since the last time I'd used it.
Stuff I've tried includes updating my GPU drivers, updating OBS, changing video format from H264 to MJPEG (helped a lot actually - still a delay but way less than with H264), experimenting with all the video encoders and quality (no difference), changing my output resolution and filters and FPS (no change), etc. If I look at the Stats window, it says I'm using about 5% CPU, average time to render frame is 0.7ms, frames missed due to rendering lag is 0.1% and encoding lag is 0%. My computer is... pretty outdated. I have an i7-860 CPU @2.80Ghz, a 4GB GTX 960 GPU, and 16GB RAM. Webcam is a Logitech C920. I'm wondering if it's a hardware issue, but again, the Stats seem fine.
I think I've done the obvious stuff. Please let me know if there's anything else I might try! And if I need to attach any logs, happy to - just let me know which ones. I'm a little out of my depth at this point.
Thank you!
When I open OBS, the preview window is lagging about 0.5s behind my real-life movements. When I record something, this lag shows up in the recording and I need to offset the audio in VLC to sync them up. But the weird part is the delay is inconsistent. On one recording I need to delay audio by 0.120 seconds to sync audio and video; another recording made the same session I need to delay audio by 0.550 seconds to sync them. To be clear the picture is clear and moving smoothly, there's just latency between between my actions in real life and when I see them on the screen, whether or not I'm streaming/recording. I've used OBS for a couple years without bumping into this issue, and didn't change any settings since the last time I'd used it.
Stuff I've tried includes updating my GPU drivers, updating OBS, changing video format from H264 to MJPEG (helped a lot actually - still a delay but way less than with H264), experimenting with all the video encoders and quality (no difference), changing my output resolution and filters and FPS (no change), etc. If I look at the Stats window, it says I'm using about 5% CPU, average time to render frame is 0.7ms, frames missed due to rendering lag is 0.1% and encoding lag is 0%. My computer is... pretty outdated. I have an i7-860 CPU @2.80Ghz, a 4GB GTX 960 GPU, and 16GB RAM. Webcam is a Logitech C920. I'm wondering if it's a hardware issue, but again, the Stats seem fine.
I think I've done the obvious stuff. Please let me know if there's anything else I might try! And if I need to attach any logs, happy to - just let me know which ones. I'm a little out of my depth at this point.
Thank you!
