Question / Help New to the software - why do my recordings lag so badly?

[brandybuck96]

I've been testing out the software by recording short clips using the game capture mode (screen capture didn't work for the fullscreen game). While the audio is fine and doesn't lag/freeze, the video quality is frankly awful. It starts off lagging badly on the menu screen; then, when I go into gameplay, almost no video is recorded, it's just frozen images every few seconds. Changing FPS and various other image quality settings didn't change anything. Am I doing something wrong?

My computer is Windows 8.1 and the game I was recording was Oblivion. Microphone capture and audio in general were fine. I've tried closing and restarting the app.

Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/m3cviBagZtCqMjzA

 

[ansu27]

I've been testing out the software by recording short clips using the game capture mode (screen capture didn't work for the fullscreen game). While the audio is fine and doesn't lag/freeze, the video quality is frankly awful. It starts off lagging badly on the menu screen; then, when I go into walmartone login, almost no video is recorded, it's just frozen images every few seconds. Changing FPS and various other image quality settings didn't change anything. Am I doing something wrong?

My computer is Windows 8.1 and the game I was recording was Oblivion. Microphone capture and audio in general were fine. I've tried closing and restarting the app.

Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/m3cviBagZtCqMjzA

I tried the same and honestly you were right. The video quality is awful. I also tried changing FPS but did not work for me either

 

[R1CH]

Unfortunately your computer is too low powered to use OBS.

 

[brandybuck96]

Unfortunately your computer is too low powered to use OBS.

Then why does the download link say that the software is suitable for Windows 7 and above?

 

[koala]

OBS is a very resource intensive application. If a hardware is able to run the bare operating system, it doesn't mean it is capable of running a resource intensive application like OBS.

It might even run in parallel to Oblivion on your machine, if you are willing to sacrifice a lot of Oblivion's graphics quality and if you are accepting rather mediocre video quality. But this would neither do your Oblivion experience any good, nor your recording's viewing experience.