Question / Help New hardware,OBS gives poor recording

[Deleted member 126179]

So I just upgraded my rig and started to record a game with OBS using the default settings given by the autoconfig wizard.
The recorded video for some reason has bad framerates... I tried messing with the encoder settings but nothing works. The only positive results I got was when I set the CPU speed to fastest and that ended up looking awful.

I have a GTX 960 2GB and 8GB of ram and I upgraded from Core i7 920 (near 10 year old cpu that died a week ago) to Ryzen 3 1200.

I was able to record with no quality loss and consistent 60 FPS on the old hardware.

 

[Fenrir]

That log contains no recording attempt in it. However: For high-quality, no fuss recordings, use the recording quality presets under Settings > Output when in Simple output mode. In the recording section, change the Recording Quality to Indistinguishable Quality, and then select NVENC as your encoder.

 

[Deleted member 126179]

That log contains no recording attempt in it. However: For high-quality, no fuss recordings, use the recording quality presets under Settings > Output when in Simple output mode. In the recording section, change the Recording Quality to Indistinguishable Quality, and then select NVENC as your encoder.

Hello,sorry I took too long to reply. I changed the encoder to NVENC and quality to indistinguishable and tried recording for couple of minutes. The quality was very much like before the hardware change but the framerate is still low. Plus I found out that when I record with NVENC the whole computer starts slowing down into 20-30 fps.

 

[Fenrir]

21:48:34.890: Output 'simple_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 14739 (67.0%)

This line indicates you're overloading your GPU. Make sure that Windows Game Mode is disabled, and that you're capping FPS in your games to avoid your GPU from being maxed out.