Laggy recordings

[HDinis09]

Hello everyone! I am attempting to record Monster Hunter World. I am experiencing pretty much no issues when recording, but when watching the recorded clips, sometimes there is some sort of stutter or lag. The video I recorded to upload also has RTSS on, so you can have a look at CPU/CPU utilization, for a better evaluation. I noticed the stutter started at 18-19 and lasted until the end of the video. I have no idea why this is happening. Please let me know what you think and suggestions on how to deal with this
Log

My gaming rig is as follows:
GPU: RTX 3060 Ti(+90 Core Clock & +800 Memory Boost)
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 Overclocked at 4.4 GHz
RAM: G.Skill Aegis 3200 MHz

For easier reading, here are screenshots of my Settings(target is 1080p 60):
Output
Video
Advanced

If you need any more information, please let me know!
Thank you so much!

 

[BardiBard]

What Hz is your monitor at?
For the most fluent results in a video you should set it to 60Hz as well as have VSync/FreeSync/GSync on.
Otherwise you will always perceive a slightly stuttery video even if the game ran perfectly fluent.

For your settings, set Keyframe Intervall to 5.

 

[HDinis09]

What Hz is your monitor at?
For the most fluent results in a video you should set it to 60Hz as well as have VSync/FreeSync/GSync on.
Otherwise you will always perceive a slightly stuttery video even if the game ran perfectly fluent.

For your settings, set Keyframe Intervall to 5.

It is at 144Hz, with no VSync/FreeSync/GSync. I will attempt to change it to your suggestions. Will provide feedback later. Thank you

 

[HDinis09]

What Hz is your monitor at?
For the most fluent results in a video you should set it to 60Hz as well as have VSync/FreeSync/GSync on.
Otherwise you will always perceive a slightly stuttery video even if the game ran perfectly fluent.

For your settings, set Keyframe Intervall to 5.

I have now tried to change the Refresh rate to 60 and activate G-Sync, but this seems to only make it stutter even more. Again, this is never in-game, only when watching the recording.

 

[BardiBard]

I have now tried to change the Refresh rate to 60 and activate G-Sync, but this seems to only make it stutter even more. Again, this is never in-game, only when watching the recording.

Try it with VSync on too and see if that helps.

Also give these a try:
1. Start OBS as Admin (always)
2. Deactivate Windows Game mode (or activate it if it was off)
3. See if it also occurs if you run your CPU stock instead of OC.

Other than that, these settings should be no problem for the NVENC (new) encoder, if what you want is max quality:
CQP
CQ Level: 14 or 15
Keyframe Intervall: 5
Preset: Max Quality
Profile: High
Look-Ahead on
Psycho Visual Tunin on
Max B-Frames: 4

Downscale Filter: Lanczos

Process Priority: High

Optional, though for best quality I recommend this:
Color Format RGB
Color Space sRGB
Color Range Full



Monitor, while recording, should always be set to 60Hz via the Display Settings of Windows.
Games should always be locked to 60FPS with V-Sync on and, if available, addidionally to V-Sync also enable FreeSync/G-Sync/G-Sync Compatible Adaptive Sync modes.

 

[BardiBard]

Also sometimes, though I do not know why, you will have to set "Common FPS Values" to 59.94 FPS, for the recording to be fluent all the time.
I do not know why this is, but on some PCs / configurations that's the only way to prevent a sort of stutter in the video recording.