Question / Help Mbps lock with NVENC?

[AkimboBananas]

I myself don't have a gaming/recording pc (Nvidia) but I read on reddit and other sites that recording with Nvenc (obs and shadowplay) will 'lock' the Mbps at certain resolutions.

If you would record in 1080p60, you could select 130Mbps with pascal cards, but the outcome would still be in 50Mbps. It would only record 130Mbps in 4k.

Is it still this way, even if you would make your recording lossless?

 

[C-Dude]

No this does not happen in OBS. However, the quality doesn't improve after a certain point, but if you use CQP instead of VBR/CBR then you can easily record in much higher quality and the bitrate would be higher. (with CQP you don't set a bitrate instead you set a quality and it uses whatever bitrate it needs to achieve the quality)

Shadowplay only locks the bitrate if you are scaling your resolution, if you are recording with your resolution set to "in game" then you can set your bitrate all the way up to 150 even if your monitor is only 1080p.

These are good settings to use for local recordings (if you go under the NVENC section it shows you how to set it up)