Question / Help Logitech 922 Color Issues

[wedotdd]

I have a couple issues going on here during recording, not streaming. I'm not streaming at the moment.

First is as I move around, the saturation goes in and out on me. Sometimes it's dull sometimes it's over saturated. My lips are orange and I've tried playing with the saturation both on the filters of my camera in OBS as well as the logitech software. The problem is when I improve it, the camera still has this problem when it's running,.the second issue here:

Second, my camera seems choppy when I play heavy games such as World of Tanks meaning I loose frames and my camera is lagging when I'm talking.

Here are my settings:

 

[wedotdd]

I ultimately forgot about the Configure Video button in my Video Capture Device props. I have too many places where I can tweak saturation so it's hard to keep track (filters, configure video, and in Logitech camera software). That helped fix the over-saturation issue.

Still have the problem where when I move around the camera keeps dimming out on color and saturation randomly kicking back in.

I also get lag when I play World of Tanks still.

 

[___Maggi___]

On your very last screenshot, in the "camera control" tab, disable the option "Low Light Compensation". I have to disable it everytime I start OBS, but this is what helped me with the same problem.

 

[wedotdd]

hmm doesn't seem to solve it. What resolution do you usually set yours to? Mine is 640x480

 

[___Maggi___]

For a long time I used 1280x720 60fps. But recently I moved to 1920x1080 30fps because the improvements in quality are pretty big. And I show gameplay all of the time, so I don't move around this much. So the 30fps are still fine tho. I personally don't need 60fps for my cam.

 

[wedotdd]

I changed it to 30fps and didn't fix the issue either.

 

[___Maggi___]

I would try to change the settings only at one point. If I am right you are trying to change / adjust the settings via logitech software and obs studio. Leave the Logitech software by default and only change the settings in obs.

Disable all filters on your camera (you don't have to delete them) and add them a second time.
Start with "color key". I used a greenscreen before too and I had problems with colors when using color key and chroma key at the same time.
Set the color key so your greenscreen is working fine and check if your colors are already messed up. If not, then add color correction and only adjust the "Hue shift" until you think the colors are ok.
Only when you set the above try adjusting brightness, contrast and saturation.

 

[wedotdd]

If I am right you are trying to change / adjust the settings via logitech software and obs studio

already turned off the logitech software, didn't make a diff

Disable all filters on your camera

tried that already

Set the color key so your greenscreen is working fine and check if your colors are already messed up. If not, then add color correction and only adjust the "Hue shift" until you think the colors are ok.
Only when you set the above try adjusting brightness, contrast and saturation.

Ok I'll try that, thanks! I might also just buy the latest 4k camera eventually too if this drives me crazy enough. Also watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCydpvllso0. In that vid this comment was also helpful:

It can run @ 1080P 60fps. That's basically the only difference between C920 and C922. You must go to camera properties, set resolution to 1920 x 1080, FPS-set it to highest fps. Open configure video on the same window and make sure low light compensation is turned off under camera control. For some reason low light compensation makes the camera unable to go above 30fps with 1080P resolution. Then, if you don't have good lighting, add a color correction filter to the webcam and increase gamma as needed.

also a good vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6BIlYwPls0

My issue might be my lighting although it's pretty bright in here with my studio lighting.

 

[___Maggi___]

Be careful with the Brio4k! Had this cam before too and problems with flickering (also opened a thread here). I know many other streamers who have the Brio4k and they don't seem to have any kind of issue.

 

[wedotdd]

This is interesting. I disabled the "auto" on white balance in Logitech software. Then I didn't need the color correction filter any more in OBS. In fact after I disabled auto, disabling color correction had NO effect anymore. So less strain now on it in OBS.

I also forgot about the gaming software which has a much better interface for this camera. I was using the straight up C922 software which seems outdated.

 

[___Maggi___]

Slowly but surely ;-)

 

[wedotdd]

Resolved, was running World of Tanks in full screen mode. Too taxing with this camera. Changed it to Windowed boarderless mode in Wot and it's fine now.

 

[wedotdd]

I'll make a vid on this soon and share it. Thanks for all the suggestions!

 

[DEDRICK]

I'll make a vid on this soon and share it. Thanks for all the suggestions!

Check your CPU Thread usage in Task Manager when in World Of Tanks FULLSCREEN with OBS actively recording.

If you see only 2-4 Threads getting hammered and the rest are dormant Windows Game Mode is reducing your thread count, which will impact your OBS performance for Capture devices and rendering/encoding.

World of Tanks and League of Legends are 2 games that I know of that Game Mode restricts your CPU to 4 threads, even if you have a 16 thread processor. You can read the Wiki article in my signature to learn how to disable it.

 

[wedotdd]

@DEDRICK Wow so I think this fixed another issue which was OBS lagged for Wot after I disabled Windows Game Mode. We'll see if that continues to hold stable but it fixed my lagging issue with Wot. Thanks!