Question / Help OBS + DXtory = Sound Lag?

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Heldagrif

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Hola! I am using OBS to stream with, and I have an overlay and a microphone going.

I am using DXtory to record the raw game footage with no overlay, and no mic.

The problem I am having is the audio of the game gets real gritty, and choppy if I have OBS on while using DXtory. DXtory works fine without the OBS on, and the sound and everything is great, but the moment I put OBS on it crackles pops, and slows down.

Any ideas?
 
Heldagrif said:
Hola! I am using OBS to stream with, and I have an overlay and a microphone going.

I am using DXtory to record the raw game footage with no overlay, and no mic.

The problem I am having is the audio of the game gets real gritty, and choppy if I have OBS on while using DXtory. DXtory works fine without the OBS on, and the sound and everything is great, but the moment I put OBS on it crackles pops, and slows down.

Any ideas?
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check windows playback device's audio bitrate, dxtory, and obs, make sure the audio bitrate matches in all three. Other than that you are using two programs that will fight to game capture so that might be the issue. I really cant be sure without a logfile of when this happened.
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I flashed new BIOS to my MOBO, and updated my sound drivers. I set all audio to the 48000hz. Now the crackling barely happens at all, but every 2-5 minutes there will be a crack in the sound. It is frustrating. I really need a way to capture my gameplay without my overlay so I can make reviews on the games I am doing.

Thanks for your help. This is the log.

https://gist.github.com/4cf37b22fc11aa086081
 
Also one thing to note. In Dxtory I am using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Codec. Because Handbrake can't convert the default DXtory codec to MP4. I did notice using the default DXtory codec the lag wasn't there. So maybe it is just a codec problem. I am just not sure. -_-

But as I said the sound has gotten tremendously better after installing new BIOS/sound drivers and making sure all was set to 48000hz
 
Heldagrif said:
Yeah I tried that. Maybe my computer is just a PoS. Sigh. I wish OBS multi platform let me record one scene, and then stream with another. Would be awesome.
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Why not try two instances of OBS?

also, with windows 7, aero needs to be enabled for game capture and disabled for monitor capture (recommended not to use monitor capture in win7 for that very reason) and instead just keep aero enabled. your scene changes are taking a while, could that be when it happens? either way, two instaces of OBS might work for what you are doing. one with just one scene using NVENC for local recording, and the other usings x264 for streaming.

http://www.helping-squad.com/use-two-or-more-instances-of-obs/
 
dping said:
Why not try two instances of OBS?

also, with windows 7, aero needs to be enabled for game capture and disabled for monitor capture (recommended not to use monitor capture in win7 for that very reason) and instead just keep aero enabled. your scene changes are taking a while, could that be when it happens? either way, two instaces of OBS might work for what you are doing. one with just one scene using NVENC for local recording, and the other usings x264 for streaming.

http://www.helping-squad.com/use-two-or-more-instances-of-obs/
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Alright. I will try that out. It seems it could be taxing on the system, but it is worth a shot! Oh, and if I leave aero enabled I can't get 60fps. It caps it at 30fps on OBS even though I have it set to 60. So I always just have it disabled every time OBS starts otherwise I get some 30fps nonsense...I don't even know...
 
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