Question / Help My recording is lagging! Please help!

[ZoroarkkaZ]

My recording is lagging like crazy. Normaly it's going pretty good but I just cannot seem to get the recording smooth.
I f someone can help me that would be great!

 

[Jack0r]

Problem? Make sure to post a log and/or crash dump -- HOWTO

 

[ZoroarkkaZ]

Here you go: http://pastebin.com/xPu80KuC

 

[Sapiens]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/

Downscale your stream resolution and/or change your preset from veryfast to superfast or even ultrafast. Your CPU can't keep up with running the game and encoding at 1366x768 with your current settings.

 

[ZoroarkkaZ]

What encoding would you advice me instead of 1366x768

 

[Sapiens]

Experiment with the resolution downscale values and see if you can find one that works well without looking too bad.

 

[ZoroarkkaZ]

http://pastebin.com/rya70rbd
These are the best settings for recording. The lag has been reduced but not quite yet.

 

[Sapiens]

Refer to the link I provided above for the best local recording settings (in terms of how to configure the bitrate and manage quality). You'll need to downscale much further it seems, you're still losing nearly a quarter of your frames.

 

[Boildown]

21:59:28: Video Encoding: x264
21:59:28: fps: 30
21:59:28: width: 908, height: 512
21:59:28: preset: ultrafast
21:59:28: profile: main
21:59:28: keyint: 250
21:59:28: CBR: no
21:59:28: CFR: no
21:59:28: max bitrate: 3800
21:59:28: buffer size: 3500
21:59:28: quality: 7
21:59:28: ------------------------------------------
21:59:28: SharedTexCapture hooked
22:01:03: FlushBufferedVideo: Flushing 15 packets over 467 ms
22:01:03: Total frames encoded: 2827, total frames duplicated: 254 (8.98%)
22:01:03: Number of frames skipped due to encoder lag: 71 (2.51%)
22:01:03: Total frames rendered: 2711, number of late frames: 45 (1.66%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)

You're still duplicating almost 9% of your frames on UltraFast. Not a good sign. It won't seem smooth until your duplicated frames are below 1%. Not sure that will be possible on your system, but at least we can take drastic action to find out:

Turn CFR on, i.e. Yes. Having it off just disguises problems.
Use the 3.0 downscale multiple.
Lower your FPS to 20.
Increase your bitrate and buffer to 10,000 or so, at least for testing purposes.

If the duplicated frames are then less than 1%, you can think about decreasing the downscale and retesting. If not, then reduce your FPS further.