My clips are so laggy, my 2 minute clip froze for 1 minute straight

Fire_Gatling67

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When I first started OBS studio, it was better than XSplit Gamecaster and was HD and no lag. However, when the time gone by, I have been expieriencing very laggy clips. I cant believe it. I relied on OBS but it now became laggier
extrainfo: I use a 5 or 7 year old THINKPAD laptop.

logs:
15:53:49.673: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7300U CPU @ 2.60GHz
15:53:49.673: CPU Speed: 2712MHz
15:53:49.673: Physical Cores: 2, Logical Cores: 4
15:53:49.673: Physical Memory: 8031MB Total, 642MB Free
15:53:49.673: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 19042 (release: 2009; revision: 685; 64-bit)
15:53:49.673: Running as administrator: false
15:53:49.674: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
15:53:49.674: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
15:53:49.674: Game DVR: On
15:53:49.684: Sec. Software Status:
15:53:49.697: Microsoft Defender Antivirus: enabled (AV)
15:53:49.698: Windows Firewall: enabled (FW)
15:53:49.701: Current Date/Time: 2021-01-07, 15:53:49
15:53:49.701: Browser Hardware Acceleration: true
15:53:49.701: Portable mode: false
15:53:51.534: OBS 26.1.0 (64-bit, windows)
15:53:51.534: ---------------------------------
15:53:51.646: ---------------------------------
15:53:51.646: audio settings reset:
15:53:51.646: samples per sec: 48000
15:53:51.646: speakers: 2
15:53:51.652: ---------------------------------
15:53:51.652: Initializing D3D11...
15:53:51.652: Available Video Adapters:
15:53:51.661: Adapter 0: Intel(R) HD Graphics 620
15:53:51.661: Dedicated VRAM: 134217728
15:53:51.661: Shared VRAM: 4211034112
15:53:51.661: PCI ID: 8086:5916
15:53:51.662: Driver Version: 26.20.100.7812
15:53:51.662: output 0: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true, refresh=48, name=
15:53:51.674: Loading up D3D11 on adapter Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (0)
15:53:51.728: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: b000
15:53:51.728: DXGI increase maximum frame latency success
15:53:53.317: ---------------------------------
15:53:53.317: video settings reset:
15:53:53.317: base resolution: 1920x1080
15:53:53.317: output resolution: 1280x720
15:53:53.317: downscale filter: Bicubic
15:53:53.317: fps: 30/1
15:53:53.317: format: NV12
15:53:53.317: YUV mode: 709/Partial
15:53:53.317: NV12 texture support not available
15:53:53.318: Audio monitoring device:
15:53:53.318: name: Default
15:53:53.318: id: default
15:53:53.334: ---------------------------------
15:53:53.357: [CoreAudio encoder]: CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded
15:53:53.363: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-captions.dll'
15:53:53.371: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-ouput-ui.dll'
15:53:53.564: [AMF] Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.
15:53:53.568: [AMF] AMF Test failed due to one or more errors.
15:53:53.568: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
15:53:53.737: [obs-browser]: Version 2.9.1
15:53:53.737: [obs-browser]: CEF Version 75.1.16+g16a67c4+chromium-75.0.3770.100
15:53:53.912: VLC found, VLC video source enabled
15:53:53.949: A DeckLink iterator could not be created. The DeckLink drivers may not be installed
15:53:53.962: No blackmagic support
15:53:53.993: ---------------------------------
15:53:53.993: Loaded Modules:
15:53:53.993: win-wasapi.dll
15:53:53.993: win-mf.dll
15:53:53.993: win-dshow.dll
15:53:53.993: win-decklink.dll
15:53:53.993: win-capture.dll
15:53:53.993: vlc-video.dll
15:53:53.993: text-freetype2.dll
15:53:53.993: rtmp-services.dll
15:53:53.993: obs-x264.dll
15:53:53.993: obs-vst.dll
15:53:53.993: obs-transitions.dll
15:53:53.993: obs-text.dll
15:53:53.994: obs-qsv11.dll
15:53:53.994: obs-outputs.dll
15:53:53.994: obs-filters.dll
15:53:53.994: obs-ffmpeg.dll
15:53:53.994: obs-browser.dll
15:53:53.994: image-source.dll
15:53:53.994: frontend-tools.dll
15:53:53.994: enc-amf.dll
15:53:53.994: decklink-ouput-ui.dll
15:53:53.994: decklink-captions.dll
15:53:53.994: coreaudio-encoder.dll
15:53:53.994: ---------------------------------
15:53:53.995: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
15:53:54.013: All scene data cleared
15:53:54.013: ------------------------------------------------
15:53:54.278: WASAPI: Device 'Headset Earphone (3- Microsoft LifeChat LX-6000)' [44100 Hz] initialized
15:53:54.279: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Desktop Audio'
15:53:54.717: WASAPI: Device 'Headset Microphone (3- Microsoft LifeChat LX-6000)' [44100 Hz] initialized
15:53:54.717: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux'
15:53:54.718: adding 21 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 21 milliseconds (source: Mic/Aux)
15:53:54.718:
15:53:55.594: [duplicator-monitor-capture: 'Display Capture 2'] update settings:
15:53:55.594: display: 1 (1920x1080)
15:53:55.594: cursor: true
15:53:55.595: [duplicator-monitor-capture: 'Display Capture'] update settings:
15:53:55.595: display: 1 (1920x1080)
15:53:55.595: cursor: true
15:53:55.596: [duplicator-monitor-capture: 'Display Capture 3'] update settings:
15:53:55.596: display: 1 (1920x1080)
15:53:55.596: cursor: true
15:53:55.597: Switched to scene 'Scene'
15:53:55.597: ------------------------------------------------
15:53:55.597: Loaded scenes:
15:53:55.597: - scene 'Scene':
15:53:55.597: - source: 'Display Capture' (monitor_capture)
15:53:55.597: - source: 'Display Capture 2' (monitor_capture)
15:53:55.598: - scene 'Scene 2':
15:53:55.598: - source: 'Display Capture 3' (monitor_capture)
15:53:55.598: - scene 'Scene 3':
15:53:55.598: - source: 'Game Capture' (game_capture)
15:53:55.598: ------------------------------------------------
15:54:05.085: Virtual output started
15:54:05.096: ==== Virtual Camera Start ==========================================
15:54:06.798: Output 'virtualcam_output': stopping
15:54:06.798: Output 'virtualcam_output': Total frames output: 50
15:54:06.798: Output 'virtualcam_output': Total drawn frames: 51
15:54:06.798: ==== Virtual Camera Stop ===========================================
15:54:06.807: Virtual output stopped
15:54:06.882: Virtual output started
15:54:06.891: ==== Virtual Camera Start ==========================================
15:54:07.969: Output 'virtualcam_output': stopping
15:54:07.969: Output 'virtualcam_output': Total frames output: 31
15:54:07.969: Output 'virtualcam_output': Total drawn frames: 32
15:54:07.970: ==== Virtual Camera Stop ===========================================
15:54:07.980: Virtual output stopped
15:54:08.064: Virtual output started
15:54:08.070: ==== Virtual Camera Start ==========================================
15:54:08.793: Output 'virtualcam_output': stopping
15:54:08.794: Output 'virtualcam_output': Total frames output: 21
15:54:08.794: Output 'virtualcam_output': Total drawn frames: 22
15:54:08.794: ==== Virtual Camera Stop ===========================================
15:54:08.803: Virtual output stopped
15:54:31.088: adding 85 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 106 milliseconds (source: Mic/Aux)
15:54:31.088:
16:00:57.856: ---------------------------------
16:00:57.856: [x264 encoder: 'simple_h264_recording'] preset: veryfast
16:00:57.856: [x264 encoder: 'simple_h264_recording'] profile: high
16:00:57.857: [x264 encoder: 'simple_h264_recording'] settings:
16:00:57.857: rate_control: CRF
16:00:57.857: bitrate: 0
16:00:57.857: buffer size: 0
16:00:57.857: crf: 14
16:00:57.857: fps_num: 30
16:00:57.857: fps_den: 1
16:00:57.857: width: 1280
16:00:57.857: height: 720
16:00:57.857: keyint: 250
16:00:57.857:
16:00:57.874: ---------------------------------
16:00:57.878: [FFmpeg aac encoder: 'simple_aac_recording'] bitrate: 192, channels: 2, channel_layout: 3
16:00:57.878:
16:00:57.972: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
16:00:57.972: [ffmpeg muxer: 'simple_file_output'] Writing file 'C:/Users/Fire_Gatling67/Videos/2021-01-07 16-00-57.mkv'...
16:04:00.301: [ffmpeg muxer: 'simple_file_output'] Output of file 'C:/Users/Fire_Gatling67/Videos/2021-01-07 16-00-57.mkv' stopped
16:04:00.301: Output 'simple_file_output': stopping
16:04:00.301: Output 'simple_file_output': Total frames output: 1375
16:04:00.301: Output 'simple_file_output': Total drawn frames: 3943 (5470 attempted)
16:04:00.301: Output 'simple_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 1527 (27.9%)
16:04:00.302: ==== Recording Stop ================================================
16:04:00.530: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 1306/1459 (89.5%)
 
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