I've been facing an issue for over two months and haven't found a solution: dropped frames in the recorded video.

[Baqer]

I've been facing a problem for over two months and haven’t found a solution yet. When I record gameplay, there’s no frame drop — the game runs smoothly, and even CPU and GPU usage doesn’t exceed 50%. However, after I finish recording and watch the recorded video, I notice that in some scenes there are frame drops or stuttering, which then disappears.

I’ve tried many solutions, but none of them worked.

Here are the solutions I tried that didn’t work:

• Capping the game at 60 FPS and setting the monitor to 60Hz.
• Capping the game at 60 FPS and setting the monitor to 120Hz.
• Capping the game at 120 FPS and setting the monitor to 120Hz.
• Enabling/disabling VSync.
• Changing the recording settings, including setting CQP to 30.
• Enabling/disabling HAGS.
• Rolling back to an older GPU driver.
• Installing an older version of OBS.
• Switching the recording format from MP4 to MKV and vice versa.
• Playing the recorded video in VLC and Media Player Classic.

 

[Baqer]

Even with such low settings I get drop frames.

codec: H264
rate_control: CQP
cqp: 30
keyint: 120
preset: p1
tuning: ull
multipass: disabled
profile: high
width: 1920
height: 1080
b-frames: 0
b-ref-mode: 0
lookahead: false (0 frames)
aq: true

 

[Suslik V]

Some useful thought about display "stutters" can be read in these threads (imperfect clocks between the display devices and the main PC):

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