My Obs recordings lag but my display/game screen works perfectly fine.

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Vorgabass

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OBS always lags even though my games do not. I use a laptop, but games such as among us and my second monitor screen work perfectly fine. When i try recording the gameplay or the screen, my recordings are extremely laggy, choppy and unwatchable. i have tried searching for tutorials and tips to help fix my problem but nothing seems to be working. i am not the smartest person and details about computers really confuse me, this is my first time on this forum and i am still pretty new to all of this so please bare that in mind when working with me. Any help?

CPU: AMD A4-9125 RADEON R3, 4 COMPUTE CORES 2C+2G
RAM: 4,00 GB
PROCESSOR: AMD A4-9125 RADEON R3, COMPUTE CORES 2C + 2G 2.30 GHz




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FerretBomb

FerretBomb

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15:04:40.586: Output 'simple_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 208 (18.7%)
15:04:40.587: ==== Recording Stop ================================================
15:04:40.631: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 707/1021 (69.2%)
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Rendering stalls mean that your GPU is being overloaded and cannot allow OBS the time it needs to handle its housekeeping tasks. You may be able to resolve this by running OBS as Administrator (right-click the shortcut, Run as Administrator) which will enable a workaround allowing OBS to take GPU priority, before your game.

Unfortunately, the encoding lag means that your CPU is too weak to handle realtime video encoding, even at the Ultrafast setting.
Normally the recommendation is to swap to hardware-based (GPU) encoding, but AMD's AMF uses actual GPU resources for encoding, and as it's already overloaded, that isn't going to help. Actually looked again and saw you tried that, and the recording attempt was at over 99% skipped frames.

In short, your system is too weak to record video in realtime. AMD APUs are notoriously anemic, to put it politely... less-politely, they're strictly email/facebook machines.
Sorry to say, you will need to buy a more capable system.

Alternately, as a last-ditch effort, you could downscale further to a smaller output resolution, and/or drop to a lower framerate like 30, 20, or 15fps to try to get the videostream small enough that your CPU will be able to handle it on Ultrafast x264. Really though, a new machine is the better call, if possible.
 
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