Question / Help New to OBS. DXTORY recording looks good. OBS not good.

[howler]

Hope someone can help me.

I have used DXTORY in the past, and it seems to work fine... REMUXING the audio is just a pain in the ass for me to work with, and takes forever. I figured I would give OBS a shot. I set it up, but my FR on my recording is garbage. I am very limited when it comes to this stuff, so I will post anything I can think of that might get me some help.

My PC is an i5-4670 3.4
8gig RAM
GeForce 1070

I play at 2560x1440 on my display, record at 720.

My DXTORY is using the lagarith lossless code, and recording in AVI @ 30fps.

Here is a copy of my last log file... I assume it will have all of the pertinent information. I also assume this is something I am doing wrong... I just cant find a current post to help me. Everything I search for settings for recording talks about options I am not seeing in my version of studio.

https://gist.github.com/e329fd6b46abd43c0c9cf667164da82b

I appreciate anyone who takes the time to offer advice.

Thanks!

 

[xxAssassin349]

Output 'adv_file_output': Number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 2021 (21.4%)
Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 16 (0.2%)

You are overloading both your CPU and GPU. Instead of x264, use NVENC. Keep all the settings the same. For CQP, use your CRF value in x264. To give OBS more GPU headroom, lower in-game settings, cap your frame rate, or reduce GPU usage in some way.

 

[howler]

Forgive my ignorance, is the reason that my CPU is flagging on this (and not dxtory) due entirely to the codec?

 

[Snilix]

It is indeed. These different codecs make a huge difference depending on your hardware/software.
Default settings are just not optimized at all. So you have to fiddle around and find the right codec/setting that works the best for your hardware. Even settings OBS recommends are not always the best bet.
For example, i couldnt get stable recording with x264 defaults. After switching to HEVC (NVENC for nvidia) and using a stable instead of the reccommended variable bitrate, my recording are now pretty much lossless.

 

[howler]

Thanks much guys. I can't tell you how much I appreciate the advice. Between the recording software, Adobe Premiere... I am ready to throw my PC thru a wall!