Question / Help OBS Color Change/Bad Lag

[Ismail]

My OBS seems to not be able to record Dolphin emulator when I am using OBS on my laptop, it lags really badly and the video quality is not great and the color comes out very inaccurate.

Help would be highly appreciated and the logs are below.

https://gist.github.com/37202718ac078e6105a3e82b688974e2

 

[C-Dude]

Try turning on Vsync in game. And can you upload a sample of the poor colors?

 

[Ismail]

Try turning on Vsync in game. And can you upload a sample of the poor colors?

Hey there, thank you for the help! I tried the VBR and CQP and it worked great however the color and quality looks very weird.

Screenshot of poor colors and bad quality:
http://prntscr.com/dx9ct0

Last log file
https://gist.github.com/4ecab5b67ccb6cb833362afd0e2464d8

 

[C-Dude]

still seems like you are dropping some frames:

16:02:18.135: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 3648 (23.9%)

This is caused by your GPU not being able to keep up.

As of the colors, it seems to be some messed up color conversion. Try recording to RGB colors (in advanced tab). That probably wont fix it but im not sure how you would. Sorry.

 

[Beardedbob]

Also try 30fps to start rather than 60fps. if using CQP pick a higher number this should help with the lag as the nvenc cpu is being overloaded.

 

[Ismail]

still seems like you are dropping some frames:

16:02:18.135: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 3648 (23.9%)

This is caused by your GPU not being able to keep up.

As of the colors, it seems to be some messed up color conversion. Try recording to RGB colors (in advanced tab). That probably wont fix it but im not sure how you would. Sorry.

Its so strange because I thought a 960M was really good, if this info helps, im running OBS through my graphics card on the Nvidia Control panel

 

[Ismail]

Also try 30fps to start rather than 60fps. if using CQP pick a higher number this should help with the lag as the nvenc cpu is being overloaded.

I would rather record 1080 60 :( im getting worried maybe my Laptop isnt good enough and I should switch to PC

 

[C-Dude]

I would rather record 1080 60 :( im getting worried maybe my Laptop isnt good enough and I should switch to PC

Are you running a simulator or capture card?

 

[Ismail]

Are you running a simulator or capture card?

Simulator? If that means game capture then yeah :(

 

[C-Dude]

you're playing a wii game on PC are you not?

 

[Ismail]

you're playing a wii game on PC are you not?

yeah im using an emulator and using game capture on it, i also tried sonic generations (steam game) and it did the same thing

is it possible to use a capture card on high end and it potentially working?

 

[C-Dude]

it depends on the game and how much GPU it uses. You can try x264 on CRF or Quicksync if your CPU supports it.

Or try lowering game settings and definitely keep FPS limited. Sometimes emulators arent very efficent.

You do know for a capture card to work you would need another PC to encode the video right? Unless you were going to play on console and use this laptop to encode.