Newbie issues

[bazingo]

I've just started trying to get around recording gameplay with OBS for youtube videos, but i can't get around a stuttering issue i have.

These are the logs: https://obsproject.com/logs/ar1m-Zi_CnimVa8F
And this is a sample of the recording, so that you can get an idea of how the stutter looks: https://youtu.be/WSx2XYX4VhA
Around 1:30 shouldbe a good representation of the problem

I've read the sticky with basic issues and tips, and I think everything mentioned there is in order.
I tried recording the game at lower framerates and resolutions, and made sure nothing non-essential is running in the background, but none of it seemed to make a difference. Is it just my rig being too weak, or is there some other way i can make it run better.
I have an Intel i5-6500 processor and a gtx 970 graphics card with 16 gigs of RAM, which can't be that bad, right?

 

[FerretBomb]

Make sure you are using the Quality (not Max Quality) preset, and have Lookahead and Psychovisual Tuning turned OFF.
Those three can cause rendering/encoding lag even when it shouldn't occur. All test recordings in your log have at least one of those turned on.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

I have an Intel i5-6500 processor and a gtx 970 graphics card with 16 gigs of RAM, which can't be that bad, right?

I tried to live stream a simple House Of Worship service with a gaming laptop with those specs... and the system chocked. I suspect with what I know now, I could get computationally demanding real-time video encoding to work, but we simply got a new desktop PC and focused on content vs minimize hardware demands

So, for you, make sure OS is optimized, unnecessary services/processes aren't running, and keep settings down in OBS to a realistic level considering a 5 generation old CPU. With that, we'd love to hear if you get it working, and post a log with a successful stream

 

[bazingo]

Thanks, for some reason psychovisual seemingly turned itself on despite me turning it off, maybe because i ran OBS as admin later. There was still a lingering framedrop of around 1%, but switching the location obs saves the recordings seems to have eliminated it completely, and now i consistently get 0% skipped frames. Kinda sucks because the other drive has lots more free space on it, but i'll have to make do.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

When you ran as Admin, you were running under a different user profile, so all new settings. That is normal windows and app behavior (totally expected, been the case since WinNT in the '90s. Some apps can be configured to use global settings regardless of user. OBS isn't one of those apps, though others have posted workarounds)
I record to an NVMe SSD that also has OS and apps, so I know disk I/O throughput won't be an issue.

If you are running into issue with large drive, then either it is too slow for the data rate of your video, or you have software (like anti-virus) scanning the recording stream and slowing you down, or you have other activity on the drive taking up the I/O bandwidth you need​

Once service over, I move current week's content over to HDD for archiving (along with Scene Collection and Advanced Scene Switcher settings exports)