OBS Encoding lag?

[VarietyPixel]

I have been dealing with this problem for MONTHS and I've tried absolutely EVERYTHING under the sun.

No matter what I do, my OBS recording drops frames, it doesn't SAY it does at the bottom right, but you can see that the video's frames drop.

I tried running as admin, using all the different encoders, turning off HAGS, using default output settings, changing the output setting, simple, advanced, Normal Process Priority, High Process Priority, EVERYTHING.

It started with my old CPU that got corrupted do to Windows being shit and crashing during an important process but this is a BRAND NEW, not even a week old yet computer and it's STILL doing this shit.

Elgato 4K Capture Utility DOESN'T have this issue, it runs perfectly, but I need to be able to use all the OBS tools for my recordings/steams inducing recording PC games.

Help please... Log from latest recording attached. I have a comparison video between 4K Capture and OBS if needed and I have a longer OBS recording too.

 

[VarietyPixel]

Opps, that log I wasn't admin
Here's another one, the issue is NOT fixed.

 

[Harold]

What media player are you watching your recording with?

 

[VarietyPixel]

I've watched it on VLC, and Windows Media Player

 

[PaiSand]

According to the log file the recording is successful and there's no encoding lag at all.
Please provide a log file where it's actually dropping frames or upload the video to youtube and share the link in here.

 

[VarietyPixel]

That's my point, it's not SHOWING that I'm lagging in the program or in the logs,, but the if you watch the video you can clearly see it.
I'll upload it to Youtube and send a link...

 

[VarietyPixel]

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Either I'm insane and am just seeing things or it's minimal but still there...

 

[PaiSand]

Video looks fine, no dropped frames.
Use VLC player to watch the video, not the not so good windows player.

And restart Windows no less than once a week in order to free up dome resources and clean the start process. Turning off and on don't do the trick, must be restart.

Unless your display monitor is 1080p you may want to try and record at 1440p as the GPU you have may perform better on high resolutions.

 

[VarietyPixel]

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Okay this one you can see the frames dipping more prominently

Playing the game was smooth, this recording as a few frame dips

 

[VarietyPixel]

Please...

 

[R@de]

I'm just throwing out some suggestions. Change the nvidia preset to the lowest one possible, it will put less load on the encoder and you may find the image quality loss is unnoticeable since you are using CQP at 15.

I see you are recording to E drive. What is E drive? Is it a different storage device or just another partition on your main drive etc. NVME / USB?

 

[koala]

Try a different media player, for example vlc. The integrated playback function in Windows 10 isn't able to handle some videos properly, especially ones with higher bitrate such as yours. The log you posted shows no lost frames, and all your monitors run with 60 Hz as well as your video, so one common source of incomprehensible stuttering (different monitor Hz) isn't there. So please check your video with vlc.

For me, the Youtube video from your last post doesn't have any stutter or lag. It's very smooth.

 

[rockbottom]

Logs are clean but your audio lagged in the first log. I would check my mobo's support page for BIOS & driver updates. New PC, board could have been laying around in stock for awhile.

19:15:42.351: Max audio buffering reached!
19:15:42.352: adding 917 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 960 milliseconds (source: Desktop Audio)
19:15:42.352:
19:15:42.372: Source Desktop Audio audio is lagging (over by 52261.27 ms) at max audio buffering. Restarting source audio.

 

[rockbottom]

Can you run the monitors @ 60 instead of 59HZ? If the stuttering happens every once in a while, it may be caused by accumulation errors.

 

[rockbottom]

As R@de mentioned, E drive?

How about GPU-Z, have you checked that to make sure the pci-e is @ 16x 4.0. Did the builder stick an NVMe in the top slot?

 

[rockbottom]

Disable this, background & audio recording.

Gaming > Captures

20:43:27.895: Game DVR: On

 

[VarietyPixel]

E Drive is just another nvme ssd in my PC, I have 3
I use VLC, I just checked the other one to see if there was any difference, there isn't any.
My monitor can go up to 165Hz, but I lock my games to 60 FPS to record

 

[rockbottom]

I don't know what mobo you have, but if all the available NVMe slots are filled with the 3 drives, better fire up GPU-Z & check that pci-e buss.

 

[rockbottom]

I also think you should be testing without any frame-rate caps. System is powerful, just using the correct v-sync will more than likely limit the frame-rate enough that there won't be any rendering lag.

 

[rockbottom]

Not sure what monitor you are capturing from but I noticed the response time of the Artist 24 is just flat out slow. I never tested a monitor with response time this slow. If you are capturing here, try the Viewsonic, response time is 1ms.

Response Time

14 ms