Question / Help New to OBS - Videos saved after recording are laggy.

[yamixero]

My videos are always choppy or laggy after I record. I'm trying to figure out the perfect settings for my PC.

I been using so many different types of settings from various youtube videos and nothing seems to work. These are my computer stats.
MSI Gaming Aegis 3, 32 gigs ram, intel core i7 - 7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3600 Mhz, 4 core, 8 logical pro...
Graphic card: NVidia Geforce GTX 1080

Please help! D=

 

[Tarumes]

Hello

please read pinned posts they say provide a logfile
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/please-post-a-log-with-your-issue-heres-how.23074/

Please try to include a recording/streaming session when you experience problems while streaming or recording,
as OBS only writes important performance data during recording or streaming sessions.

If you have solved your problem yourself, please let the others know how you did it If someone else has the same problem,
he will find your post, read it through, is no step closer to solving it, and has wasted some time.

 

[WillEMakit]

My videos are always choppy or laggy after I record. I'm trying to figure out the perfect settings for my PC.

I been using so many different types of settings from various youtube videos and nothing seems to work. These are my computer stats.
MSI Gaming Aegis 3, 32 gigs ram, intel core i7 - 7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3600 Mhz, 4 core, 8 logical pro...
Graphic card: NVidia Geforce GTX 1080

Please help! D=

It all truly depends on how you setup your Output Mode Settings. First, change the Output Mode dropdown menu from Simple to Advanced — this will allow you to manually select your Rate Control.
The Encoder you choose will impact which Rate Controls are available to you, such as ABR which can only be used when x264 is your Encoder.
As a general rule, if you have an Nvidia graphics card (which you do) you can (and should) choose NVENC.

If you’re streaming, use CBR as every platform recommends it and it’s a reliable form of Rate Control.
If you’re recording and need to be high quality, use CQP if the file size is no issue.
If you’re recording and want the file size to be reasonable, use VBR if quality drop is not issue.
Now with that out of the way,
I have the exact same computer as you do, only difference is I have upgraded my GTX to an RTX 2060. Shouldn't be that much of a difference though... but, very well could be. I personally use:
NVIDIA NVENC H.264, at 1920x1080, with a Rate Control set to CQP, CQ Level 20, Keyframe Interval 0, Preset Max Quality, Profile High, Psycho Visual Tuning activated.