Question / Help Is my laptop able to record?

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GaryGanger

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I am new to obs and I have bought a gaming laptop and want to record videos for youtube with it. It runs all my games fine but when I record the recording come out extremely choppy but the audio is fine. I have looked around many of the forums but have not found anything to fix it and was wondering if there was something that my laptop had that would not allow me to record.
 
My log:

22:17:05.592: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7300HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz
22:17:05.592: CPU Speed: 2496MHz
22:17:05.592: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
22:17:05.592: Physical Memory: 8112MB Total, 1839MB Free
22:17:05.592: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 17134 (revision: 165; 64-bit)
22:17:05.593: Running as administrator: false
22:17:05.593: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
22:17:05.593: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
22:17:05.593: Game Bar: On
22:17:05.593: Game DVR: On
22:17:05.593: Game DVR Background Recording: On
22:17:05.595: Sec. Software Status:
22:17:05.597: Avast Antivirus: enabled (AV)
22:17:05.597: Windows Defender Antivirus: disabled (AV)
22:17:05.598: Windows Firewall: enabled (FW)
22:17:05.599: Windows Defender Antivirus: disabled (ASW)
22:17:05.599: Avast Antivirus: enabled (ASW)
22:17:05.599: Portable mode: false
22:17:05.726: OBS 21.1.2 (64bit, windows)
22:17:05.726: ---------------------------------
22:17:05.727: ---------------------------------
22:17:05.727: audio settings reset:
22:17:05.727: samples per sec: 44100
22:17:05.727: speakers: 2
22:17:05.729: ---------------------------------
22:17:05.729: Initializing D3D11...
22:17:05.729: Available Video Adapters:
22:17:05.734: Adapter 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
22:17:05.734: Dedicated VRAM: 2075844608
22:17:05.734: Shared VRAM: 4253040640
22:17:05.734: output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true
22:17:05.734: Adapter 2: Intel(R) HD Graphics 630
22:17:05.734: Dedicated VRAM: 134217728
22:17:05.734: Shared VRAM: 4253040640
22:17:05.742: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (0)
22:17:05.819: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: 45056
22:17:06.686: ---------------------------------
22:17:06.687: video settings reset:
22:17:06.687: base resolution: 1920x1080
22:17:06.687: output resolution: 1920x1080
22:17:06.687: downscale filter: Bicubic
22:17:06.687: fps: 60/1
22:17:06.687: format: NV12
22:17:06.687: YUV mode: 601/Partial
22:17:06.693: Audio monitoring device:
22:17:06.693: name: Default
22:17:06.693: id: default
22:17:06.694: ---------------------------------
22:17:06.699: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/chrome_elf.dll' not found, loading of module failed
22:17:06.703: [CoreAudio encoder]: CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded
22:17:06.786: [AMF] AMF Test failed due to one or more errors.
22:17:06.786: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
22:17:06.834: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libcef.dll' not found, loading of module failed
22:17:06.839: LoadLibrary failed for '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll': The specified procedure could not be found.
22:17:06.839: (127)
22:17:06.839: Module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll' not loaded
22:17:06.844: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libGLESv2.dll' not found, loading of module failed
22:17:06.850: [browser_source: 'Version: 1.31.0']
22:17:06.870: NVENC supported
22:17:06.968: Couldn't find VLC installation, VLC video source disabled
22:17:06.992: No blackmagic support
22:17:07.011: ---------------------------------
22:17:07.011: Loaded Modules:
22:17:07.011: win-wasapi.dll
22:17:07.011: win-mf.dll
22:17:07.011: win-dshow.dll
22:17:07.011: win-decklink.dll
22:17:07.011: win-capture.dll
22:17:07.011: vlc-video.dll
22:17:07.011: text-freetype2.dll
22:17:07.011: rtmp-services.dll
22:17:07.011: obs-x264.dll
22:17:07.011: obs-vst.dll
22:17:07.011: obs-transitions.dll
22:17:07.011: obs-text.dll
22:17:07.011: obs-qsv11.dll
22:17:07.011: obs-outputs.dll
22:17:07.011: obs-filters.dll
22:17:07.011: obs-ffmpeg.dll
22:17:07.011: obs-browser.dll
22:17:07.011: image-source.dll
22:17:07.011: frontend-tools.dll
22:17:07.011: enc-amf.dll
22:17:07.011: coreaudio-encoder.dll
22:17:07.011: ---------------------------------
22:17:07.011: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
22:17:07.012: Service '' not found
22:17:07.017: All scene data cleared
22:17:07.017: ------------------------------------------------
22:17:07.230: WASAPI: Device 'Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)' initialized
22:17:07.262: WASAPI: Device 'Microphone (Voicemod Virtual Audio Device (WDM))' initialized
22:17:07.262: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
22:17:07.262: executable: chrome.exe
22:17:07.313: adding 46 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 46 milliseconds
22:17:07.345: Switched to scene 'Game'
22:17:07.345: ------------------------------------------------
22:17:07.345: Loaded scenes:
22:17:07.345: - scene 'Scene':
22:17:07.345: - source: 'Window Capture' (window_capture)
22:17:07.345: - scene 'Game':
22:17:07.345: - source: 'Game Capture' (game_capture)
22:17:07.345: ------------------------------------------------
22:17:11.258: ---------------------------------
22:17:11.258: [x264 encoder: 'simple_h264_recording'] preset: veryfast
22:17:11.258: [x264 encoder: 'simple_h264_recording'] profile: high
22:17:11.258: [x264 encoder: 'simple_h264_recording'] settings:
22:17:11.258: rate_control: CRF
22:17:11.258: bitrate: 0
22:17:11.258: buffer size: 0
22:17:11.258: crf: 23
22:17:11.258: fps_num: 60
22:17:11.258: fps_den: 1
22:17:11.258: width: 1920
22:17:11.258: height: 1080
22:17:11.258: keyint: 250
22:17:11.258:
22:17:11.266: ---------------------------------
22:17:11.266: [FFmpeg aac encoder: 'simple_aac_recording'] bitrate: 128, channels: 2, channel_layout: 3
22:17:11.266:
22:17:11.279: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
22:17:11.279: [ffmpeg muxer: 'simple_file_output'] Writing file 'C:/Users/Toaster/Videos/2018-07-18 22-17-11.mp4'...
22:17:12.910: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 69 milliseconds
22:17:13.460: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook fullscreen process: FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping.exe
22:17:13.680: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] shared texture capture successful
 
A few things:
  1. The Avast/AVG antivirus' Game Mode is known to cause issues with OBS. Having it enabled will essentially render OBS inoperable. You can either disable Game Mode in the options, or uninstall Avast/AVG completely.
  2. Cap your in-game frame rate.
  3. Disable the Windows 10 Gaming features (Game Bar, Game DVR, Background recording).
 
RytoEX said:
A few things:
  1. The Avast/AVG antivirus' Game Mode is known to cause issues with OBS. Having it enabled will essentially render OBS inoperable. You can either disable Game Mode in the options, or uninstall Avast/AVG completely.
  2. Cap your in-game frame rate.
  3. Disable the Windows 10 Gaming features (Game Bar, Game DVR, Background recording).
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I did what you said and it made the recording a little better but its still very choppy, is there anything that is outdated or weak in my laptop that can be causing the problem?
 
Please provide a new log file so I can see exactly where the choppiness is coming from. Start a recording, record for a while (30 seconds minimum, but longer is fine), then stop the recording. Close OBS. Open OBS and then upload the "Last Log File" (not the Current Log File) from the Help menu.

As for your system specs, the CPU is a bit underpowered as far as the 7th generation Intel CPUs go. The GTX 1050 is okay, but not great. The system also only has 8GB of RAM. I'm not sure I'd classify it as a gaming laptop.
 
RytoEX said:
Please provide a new log file so I can see exactly where the choppiness is coming from. Start a recording, record for a while (30 seconds minimum, but longer is fine), then stop the recording. Close OBS. Open OBS and then upload the "Last Log File" (not the Current Log File) from the Help menu.

As for your system specs, the CPU is a bit underpowered as far as the 7th generation Intel CPUs go. The GTX 1050 is okay, but not great. The system also only has 8GB of RAM. I'm not sure I'd classify it as a gaming laptop.
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https://hastebin.com/unihurevob
 
Your CPU can't keep up with encoding and your other background tasks (gaming, apps, etc.), and I'm not sure you're going to be able to get it to do so (since it's on the lower end of that line of CPUs). Your best bet is probably to use hardware encoding - either NVENC or QSV. NVENC will probably produce better results.
 
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