Question / Help Local Recordings are Laggy but game is not

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JigsawHD

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Hi everyone. I have been trying to record games but I can't get it right. I followed the popular guide on this site to get HD 1080p 60fps recordings. This is the guide https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/
I used crf=15, i know worse rigs than mine can handle that so that number should be fine...

The game runs smooth and fine when I am recording but the video recording is choppy, it seems every 3 seconds or so it'll just freeze for a second and play on, rinse and repeat.

I really don't think my PC is the issue, I have 8gb RAM, i5 4690k cpu, and nvidia GTX970 gpu.

Has anyone seen this before and can help me?
 
JigsawHD said:
Code: 
https://gist.github.com/9da33aff3e34c72dd501
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set preset to superfast or maybe even ultrafast. an i5 isn not ideal for recording and playing a game at the same time, especially without hyperthreading.

At that, make sure CS:GO does not have the launch options of -threads or -high as these will cause issues with OBS and recording.
 
dping said:
set preset to superfast or maybe even ultrafast. an i5 isn not ideal for recording and playing a game at the same time, especially without hyperthreading.

At that, make sure CS:GO does not have the launch options of -threads or -high as these will cause issues with OBS and recording.
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I set it to ultrafast and it seems it solved the problem! However, i noticed my cpu usage was extremely high. is that a bad thing? I've got 212 EVO cpu cooler in there as well.
 
JigsawHD said:
I set it to ultrafast and it seems it solved the problem! However, i noticed my cpu usage was extremely high. is that a bad thing? I've got 212 EVO cpu cooler in there as well.
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a typical system that will handle 1080@60 is an i7, so yes, you should be maxed out. Ultrafast just lessoned the load on the CPU since you were pushing the encoder to hard
 
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