Question / Help Minecraft Recording is Quite Laggy?

[Psionic Ghost]

So, I started recording and streaming lately, I have search countless stuff about best settings and everything. I usually stream/record League of Legends but lately I have been streaming/recording Minecraft although the same settings dont work because my footage appears to be "lagging" and "breaking" and I don't get it why. I have turn Game Mode on Windows off.
These are my specs:

These are my OBS settings:

Note: I record in MKV file and then I remux teh recording to MP4

 

[Narcogen]

Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...

 

[Psionic Ghost]

Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...

There:

https://obsproject.com/logs/tezphpOnRyJJEPGd

 

[FerretBomb]

That log file does not appear to contain a recording session; we'll need one from a test recording at least 30 seconds in length where the issue was occurring to see what's happening.

One thing you can try though is running OBS as Administrator. If you're running Minecraft without a framerate cap, it can use up all the GPU time, leaving OBS unable to complete its standard housekeeping tasks. A workaround was added in 24.0.3 that if run as Admin, OBS can take priority on GPU calls, so it can do its small amount of work first before the game uses up the rest.

 

[Psionic Ghost]

That log file does not appear to contain a recording session; we'll need one from a test recording at least 30 seconds in length where the issue was occurring to see what's happening.

One thing you can try though is running OBS as Administrator. If you're running Minecraft without a framerate cap, it can use up all the GPU time, leaving OBS unable to complete its standard housekeeping tasks. A workaround was added in 24.0.3 that if run as Admin, OBS can take priority on GPU calls, so it can do its small amount of work first before the game uses up the rest.

Sorry, I am new at this. Thanks for your time. I also Ran as an admistrator here.
here is logs: https://obsproject.com/logs/2QhfrTBn60akpMHo

 

[FerretBomb]

No worries, no one starts out knowing everything. :)

There is still no recording session showing in that logfile. Also, OBS is not being run as Administrator in that logfile.
Just to clarify, 'Upload Last Logfile' uploads the log from the last time OBS was opened and then closed. 'Upload Current Logfile' will upload the one for the current OBS session.

 

[Psionic Ghost]

No worries, no one starts out knowing everything. :)

There is still no recording session showing in that logfile. Also, OBS is not being run as Administrator in that logfile.
Just to clarify, 'Upload Last Logfile' uploads the log from the last time OBS was opened and then closed. 'Upload Current Logfile' will upload the one for the current OBS session.

Ok, third time is the charm: https://obsproject.com/logs/GDGMrR2BOVxHsrrm

 

[Narcogen]

22:40:16.210: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 34 (3.9%)

You're overloading your GPU:

Dropped Frames And General Connection Issues

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

obsproject.com

22:40:17.088: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 665/759 (87.6%)

and you're overloading your encoder.

General Performance And Encoding Issues

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

obsproject.com

General advice:

Don't put multiple game captures in a single scene, this is non-performant and can cause interference. Keep a single game capture source in a scene and reconfigure on a per-game basis, or make separate scenes/scene collections for individual games preconfigured for those games.

Your bitrate of 3500 is not sufficient for good quality 1080p60. You could reduce your dropped frames by retargeting for either 720p60 or 1080p30.

Don't use CBR for recording, its primary purpose is streaming. Use CRF rate control and a quality setting between 14 (very high) and 23 (pretty good).

You're encoding with CPU and getting a lot of overload. You could use NVENC and get decent quality for local recording if you allowed for larger file sizes. Quality for streaming would probably not be that good as this card is quite old, but you could compensate for this somewhat with a higher bitrate. For 1080 you really want to be closer to 5000-6000 than 3500.

 

[Psionic Ghost]

22:40:16.210: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 34 (3.9%)

You're overloading your GPU:

Dropped Frames And General Connection Issues

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

obsproject.com

22:40:17.088: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 665/759 (87.6%)

and you're overloading your encoder.

General Performance And Encoding Issues

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

obsproject.com

General advice:

Don't put multiple game captures in a single scene, this is non-performant and can cause interference. Keep a single game capture source in a scene and reconfigure on a per-game basis, or make separate scenes/scene collections for individual games preconfigured for those games.

Your bitrate of 3500 is not sufficient for good quality 1080p60. You could reduce your dropped frames by retargeting for either 720p60 or 1080p30.

Don't use CBR for recording, its primary purpose is streaming. Use CRF rate control and a quality setting between 14 (very high) and 23 (pretty good).

You're encoding with CPU and getting a lot of overload. You could use NVENC and get decent quality for local recording if you allowed for larger file sizes. Quality for streaming would probably not be that good as this card is quite old, but you could compensate for this somewhat with a higher bitrate. For 1080 you really want to be closer to 5000-6000 than 3500.

Okey, thanks, I'm going to test this!

 

[Psionic Ghost]

22:40:16.210: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 34 (3.9%)

You're overloading your GPU:

Dropped Frames And General Connection Issues

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

obsproject.com

22:40:17.088: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 665/759 (87.6%)

and you're overloading your encoder.

General Performance And Encoding Issues

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

obsproject.com

General advice:

Don't put multiple game captures in a single scene, this is non-performant and can cause interference. Keep a single game capture source in a scene and reconfigure on a per-game basis, or make separate scenes/scene collections for individual games preconfigured for those games.

Your bitrate of 3500 is not sufficient for good quality 1080p60. You could reduce your dropped frames by retargeting for either 720p60 or 1080p30.

Don't use CBR for recording, its primary purpose is streaming. Use CRF rate control and a quality setting between 14 (very high) and 23 (pretty good).

You're encoding with CPU and getting a lot of overload. You could use NVENC and get decent quality for local recording if you allowed for larger file sizes. Quality for streaming would probably not be that good as this card is quite old, but you could compensate for this somewhat with a higher bitrate. For 1080 you really want to be closer to 5000-6000 than 3500.

I tried it and now looks smooth. Can I make it look any better with few mroe changes?

https://obsproject.com/logs/O5KRZxZ_JANhNDb7

 

[Narcogen]

Sure. Either increase bitrate further, or use CRF rate control and a quality setting instead of a bitrate. CBR is intended for streaming because streaming platforms require it.

 

[Psionic Ghost]

Sure. Either increase bitrate further, or use CRF rate control and a quality setting instead of a bitrate. CBR is intended for streaming because streaming platforms require it.

CRF only works if I'm using x264 enconder. If I use NVIDIA NVENC H.264, doesn't let me select it.
ShouldIstill change back to x264 encoder or use NVIDIA NVENC H.264?

 

[FerretBomb]

CRF only works if I'm using x264 enconder. If I use NVIDIA NVENC H.264, doesn't let me select it.
ShouldIstill change back to x264 encoder or use NVIDIA NVENC H.264?

I believe NVENC calls it CQP instead. It's more or less the same effect.

 

[Psionic Ghost]

I believe NVENC calls it CQP instead. It's more or less the same effect.

Thanks, I have been tinkering with it and looks crisp and smooth now. also changed a few sttings on stream too and looks fine now. Doesn't stutter or anything.

https://obsproject.com/logs/zqqvAq5ZM2-UvcS0