Question / Help Lagging when recording?

[russwasherejr]

I'm getting video lag when I first start recording on obs? I'm trying to record counter strike global offensive and the first 5 minutes or so are lag. My processor is an 8350 with 8gig of ram. My priority class is set at High it seems like I need to wait until it's ready to fully record then record. I'm not sure what's going on?

Can anyone give me the best settings possible for recording where I won't get any lag what so ever?
My processor is an fx 8350, 8gig 1600 ram with a 1tb HD.

 

[AndehX]

what graphics card do you have? Depending on weather its AMD or Nvidia, use VCE or NVENC for encoding.

 

[russwasherejr]

XFX r9 280x

 

[alpinlol]

please make sure to post a log

 

[AndehX]

use your GPU to encode the stream then. I would have recommended using quicksync, but you have an AMD cpu unfortunately, so that isnt possible.

 

[russwasherejr]

how do i use my gpu to record the stream?

 

[russwasherejr]

the x264 tag is the only one highlighted I can't click anything else in encoding

 

[russwasherejr]

Here are my settings I just reset the bitrate i'm recording at 1080p 30fps

 

[russwasherejr]

I did a test run with those settings recording CS go and I got very laggy performance which confuses me because I have a fx 8350 it should run fine!

https://gist.github.com/98887f05ba16bd2313b6

 

[dping]

I did a test run with those settings recording CS go and I got very laggy performance which confuses me because I have a fx 8350 it should run fine!

https://gist.github.com/98887f05ba16bd2313b6

uninstall raptr aka gaming evolved. This is an all in one gaming overlay streaming recording program from amd. It works but it will affect obs bigtime. Also disable broadcast from steam. Its under settings. If all that doesnt fix it change over to the VCE fork of obs. https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-branch-with-amd-vce-support.13996/

 

[russwasherejr]

Broadcasting is disabled it has been.

 

[russwasherejr]

the x264 CPU preset should I put it to veryfast? When I tried recording I got slight lag, I think that's whats causing it. I have it set to faster right now and there's just a tiny tiny bit of lag. Shouldn't an 8350 be able to handle fast tho?

 

[dping]

Broadcasting is disabled it has been.

but raptr is trying to grab the game capture.

WARNING: Another hook is already
present while trying to hook opengl32.dll,
hook target is \Device\HarddiskVolume2 \PROGRA~2\Raptr\ltc_game32-91954.dll.
If you experience crashes, try disabling the
other hooking application

 

[russwasherejr]

btw deleting raptr helped alot, thank you.

 

[dping]

btw deleting raptr helped alot, thank you.

YW

the x264 CPU preset should I put it to veryfast? When I tried recording I got slight lag, I think that's whats causing it. I have it set to faster right now and there's just a tiny tiny bit of lag. Shouldn't an 8350 be able to handle fast tho?

dont raise cpu preset for local recording its useless. just raise the bitrate :)

 

[russwasherejr]

so just keep that at veryfast?

should my keyframe interval be 0 or 2 underneath the 264 preset? I have it set at 0

 

[dping]

so just keep that at veryfast?

should my keyframe interval be 0 or 2 underneath the 264 preset? I have it set at 0

2 is best practice, auto is fine for local recording, your log showed auto so... dont set it to 0 as it will make it difficult/impossible to play, ff or rw when watching the video. you need key frames for that purpose. they also sustain quality instead of greening/greying the screen when skipping around in your video.

 

[russwasherejr]

okay I set it back to 2. Hopefully it's good again. What should my bitrate be for 1080p 30fps recording?

 

[dping]

okay I set it back to 2. Hopefully it's good again. What should my bitrate be for 1080p 30fps recording?

set bitrate to 1000 and buffer to 0. this is kindof an auto bitrate setting when CBR is unchecked (aka VBR). the bitrate will go as high as it need for the quality you set.

If you need it more controlled. set it to your need suggested for YT is up to 50,000 but just try the auto settings first.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

 

[russwasherejr]

for recording? that looks really low. I'm not streaming.


I put quality balance to 10 and bitrate to 1000