Question / Help Not happy with recording results

[Sptz]

Hi everyone,

So, I'm quite new to OBS recording and am faffing about with the settings trying to find a good medium that could **potentially** sustain a good framerate and acceptable quality.

My system is:
Ryzen 5 2600x
16GB DDR4 @ 3466mhz tight timings
Asus Strix 1070 @ latest Nvidia Drivers

I disabled Game Mode because first time with it on the recording came out at like 0.0000001 FPS. Now it's much much better but it's still not quite up to task. I've attached both screenshots of my OBS settings and a quick output video test.

I decided not to scale from 1440 to 1080 (as scaling I believe takes more cpu cycles) and this is a quick test. Still doesn't look like it's really at 60FPS does it?

So, since Apex is a GPU heavy game, I'm getting better results using x264 but still doesn't look like it's pure 60fps, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The game runs flawlessly whilst recording.
I'm also very confused when using VBR as it has both CRF and Bitrate within it, shouldn't they be separate entities?

Thanks and appreciate any help.

 

[koala]

Use the settings from the first screenshot, but change CQ level from 26 to 15-18. This level is a measure for the amount of detail removed to achieve lower file size. The lower that value, the better the quality (and larger the file size). 26 is very high, resulting in not very good quality. This setting doesn't affect performance, only quality and file size.

Don't use CBR rate control for recording. Don't use x264 for recording, if you have nvenc.

 

[Sptz]

Use the settings from the first screenshot, but change CQ level from 26 to 15-18. This level is a measure for the amount of detail removed to achieve lower file size. The lower that value, the better the quality (and larger the file size). 26 is very high, resulting in not very good quality. This setting doesn't affect performance, only quality and file size.

Don't use CBR rate control for recording. Don't use x264 for recording, if you have nvenc.

Thanks!
Isn't x264 recommended for Apex since it's GPU heavy?

 

[koala]

I would not pass the power of nvenc. If you use x264, you dedicate half of your CPU to encoding, which may result in your game running less smooth or not smooth at all any more.