Question / Help Local Recording X264 or NVENC

Slive

New Member
Hi all,

First time using this software, after having converted from console gaming using the HD60 Pro and have to say, so far it's looking great. Props to the DEVs.

As a fairly new Youtuber, I wanted to ensure that the quality of local recordings I'm making are as best as they can be from the offset after switching to PC, so I'm doing some tinkering but wanted you guys, when you have a spare moment to just double check my settings before I go live.

I've obviously read up on as much info as I can but with information overload and so many people claiming they have the best setup/guide I'm struggling to pinpoint what settings are best currently and thus seek some direction if what I currently have is optimum for local recordings.

I've followed this guide
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/
As it seemed somewhat more likely that a source guide on OBS forums would be more current and pertinent to what I was after, understand each system is different I'd rather get an opinion from the horses mouth as they say.

Any help is appreciated and I'd be willing to donate some £'s for any help that can point to me to reaching some decent clarity in the vids.

My specs
Lenovo Y50 i7 4710HQ 3.5Ghz (unthrottled all cores active)
16Gb DDR3
GTX860M 4GB DDR5 (overlocked slightly)
1TB HDD SSD

Log file X264:
https://gist.github.com/c59c974bccfcdceebaca446c6b2168a0

Video preview X264
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl_aorhCsZQ&feature=youtu.be

Log file NVENC
https://gist.github.com/8132af9eb191ea255eaffe134103d483

Video preview NVENC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtLbTc9bUHs


The quality is pretty decent when using x264 & NVENC but wondering if I can push my setup further, as it's slightly grainy in areas especially in full-screen (quality degradation is to be expected in a bigger picture but wasn't expected it that much), the quality in NVENC is pretty decent too running at 70000 Kbit/s but again slightly grainy in full-screen.
 
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Slive

New Member
Hmm having a brief look over log(s) myself - noticed an oddity

Physical Memory: 4095MB (Should be 16Gb) ?
 
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Slive

New Member
I'm aware of that thank you, question was whether or not my settings could be improved upon but after reading some more and tinkering I've found what seems to be the best 1080p 60FPS settings that suit me.

Though curious to know why the log states I only have 4gb physical memory.

Thanks anyway.
 

Boildown

Active Member
4GB is because you're running the 32 bit version of OBS.

I'd change the keyint to auto or something long like 5 seconds, unless you're uploading directly to YouTube with no editing and re-rendering first (in which case, change it to 1 second). Change the Profile to High. Possibly make sure you're encoding in Full Range. Keep CFR (constant frame rate) set to on / yes.

Other than that your settings look good. But I can't tell about the performance you're getting because the log file was from too short of an encode, you should capture at least five minutes of high-action gameplay and post that log file to make sure that your computer is keeping up and not duplicating too many frames.
 
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