Question / Help Local recording jerky

[Cliff]

Hello

My son has started using OBS to record Minecraft with a webcam capture simultaneously. It's really jerky though almost immediately whenever he starts turning / new terrain is loaded. Game play is really smooth. Spec of the laptop is as follows.

Intel® Core™ i5 Quad Core Processor 6300HQ
8GB DDR3 1600MHz
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960M - 2.0GB DDR5
240GB KINGSTON V300 SSD, SATA 6 Gb

I've tried dropping the settings of Minecraft to see if it has any effect but it made no difference. The problem is I don't really understand the settings within OBS to even know how to try and make things smoother. If someone could just list some generic settings to try and smooth things out that would be much appreciated just to reduce the amount of trial and error I need to do.

I was unable to get it to do a game or window capture (always just a black screen) so had to do desktop capture. Not sure if that's part of the problem.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Beardedbob]

Hi @Cliff

Could you post your recording settings either in txt or as a pic from OBS please, this will help us as they could be to high given the laptops should be able to run minecraft and OBS pretty well.

Game / WIndows / Desktop capture shouldn't make a difference, it just depends more if you are getting a picture rather than performance.

Cheers

Bob

 

[Osiris]

Please post a log

 

[Cliff]

Sorry am posting from work at the moment, ran out of time last night after some testing. Will post the logs this evening.

 

[Cliff]

OK have done a quick test using the settings below. Logs uploaded too.

 

[Cliff]

Any suggestions?

 

[Beardedbob]

under recording change the quality to the lowest as its on "High Quality, Medium size" then work up until you get to the point that you find its impacting the game / video.

Is you son streaming it as well as recording it?

If you require some further options you can also change it from simple mode at the top to advanced,but to keep it simple just try changing the high quality settings.

 

[Cliff]

Ok will give that a go thanks.

No he's not streaming.

I did look at some of those options but no idea what they do. Will go with the simple solution for now.

 

[Cliff]

I only have these 4 options. How can i reduce the quality?

 

[Beardedbob]

Hi,

Two options, you could set it as same as steam and then increase the bitrate on that from the current 2500 until you see a performance hit or you can swap it from simple --> advanced to give you more flexibility.

 

[Cliff]

OK have set it to same as stream and with 2500 it looks terrible and is still really jerky.

EDIT

Just thought i should mention that it's on a laptop. Not sure if the Intel HD graphics interferes in any way.

 

[Cliff]

Got it working now!

Firstly made sure i was using the 64-bit exe, the default desktop icon was the 32-bit one.
Changed Advanced\Renderer to OpenGL.
Can then do game capture rather than display and even have the quality at Indistinguishable.