Question / Help OBS CPU Spikes but NO "High Encoding" Waring.

Danny McKean

New Member
Hi Everyone,

So previously, I got help for this issue on the OBS chat, but after some time, the problem has re-occurred.

The is the log for the latest video: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a7fd55126f33d93728e9da565a0e3c0b

Bascially, the issue is, that every ~15-20 seconds or so, whether or I'm looking in one directing (a static image) or looking around, OBS spikes to 100% CPU usage and collapses the FPS of the video down to ~2 FPS for a few seconds (looks really bad in video). Note that when this happens, I do NOT get a "High Encoding" warning on the lower left (I used to before I got support in the chat).

Outside of CPU spiking, OBS uses less than 15% CPU, even when looking around (massive scene changes), so there is more than enough CPU performance to record without issue (like I did for years before this issue started occurring), and it was fixed with the help I got from the OBS chat, but is now starting to occur really badly.

My PC specs are:
AMD FX 9590 Black Edition (8 core, 4.7 GHz)
ATI Radeon HD 7970
20 GB RAM
3 GB VRAM
Gigabyte 980-FX Motherboard
Storage is 6.3 TB

I don't have any CPU throttling settings enabled - or anything similar. I look forward to some help, this has gotten so bad I can't really record anymore! If any other details are required, please let me know!

Thanks in advance,
Hibblejaybob.
 

Danny McKean

New Member
Alright, things I've tried just now to see if there was any improvement (there hasn't been unfortunately):
- Disable Preview while recording
- Switching Recording destination to a drive with faster transfer rates
- Using OBS Studio rather than OBS
- With Aero disabled and without
And I still get pretty substantial CPU spikes :/
 
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