Question / Help Ingame FPS drops while recording

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BigFist

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Hi everybody,

like a few guys, i have some trouble with obs studio while recording The Division. First, i use OBS Studio 21.1.0 64 bit as an admin. My System is the following:
CPU: 6700k @4.5 Ghz
RAM: 16 GB DDR4
GPU: Asus GTX 1070
Monitor: 1920x1080 @120Hz

Now to my problem. While i am playing the Division, i dont have fps drops below 120, what so ever. The normal state is around 140 FPS, but when i start recording the fps drops down to 89-125 fps. I turned the settings down so my system can handle both, playing div with more than 120 fps and recording. With Nvidia Share aka. Shadowplay there are no problems... the fps goes down a bit, but not under 120 fps.

While recording there are no other programs up except voicemeeter banana and teamspeak. I tried many different things but nothing seems to work. I know the div is a very cpu heavy game and yes my 6700k goes all the way up to 90%, sometimes at least. My gpu have no trouble. The usage stays below 80%

Can you guys help me out ?
There is one thing i read some days ago. The suggestion was to use a second, dedicated gpu. I have a gtx 770 which i could use, but since i got no problem with gpu usesage, i am not really sure this would fix my problem.
Thx for reading, bye
 

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BigFist

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Not really. What seems to help a bit is to change the cpu priority and affinity. Set both prioritys to high and change the affinity to following:
• obs studio only cpu 0
• the division cpu 1-7
With this i managed to get constantly over 120 fps in open world and dark zone. In Last Stand it is around 100-120 fps but not as constant as in the dark zone for example.... still trying.
Just mentioning, i set many settings in div to low-medium to get to this point. "Luckly" the division is one of the games which looks great, even on low to medium settings
 
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BigFist

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So i tried couple things, like pluging my 2nd monitor to the mainboard, disable the preview, change the priority and cpu affinity of division and obs studio, disable the fps limit on div and deactivated many windows and 3rd party software/services. Nothing really seems so fix my problem. I can not hold the 120+ fps ingame while recording.
the next thing i wanna try is to let obs write the recording to the ssd, i really dont think this will help.....

Here is my latest log file. hopely somebody can help me
 

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koala

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Capturing and recording a game is a very resource intensive task. The result is an impact on what is being captured. That's the way it is.

I see nothing wrong in your latest log, except that in the encoder, you should use CQP instead of CBR as rate control. Use a CQP value between 15 (indistinguishable quality) to 23 (good quality). With CBR you are wasting disk space and sacrificing quality in high motion scenes. But this will not change the fps behavior, it's only about quality.
 
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BigFist

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So how can i solve my Problem ? The way i see it right now is to reduce to 30fps at recording or lower the Resolution to 720p @60fps.

Is there a way to add something which could give me a performance boost ?
 
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