Question / Help OBS is choppy and blurry even though I set it to 1080p

[FD1 Gamer]

Today I have been sick and tired I see people out there with sharp clean crispy video quality but whatever I do to change the settings, nothing changes it's still blurry. Please I need help ASAP I'm tired of this I have used OBS for about 7 months and nothing has changed


Here is my log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/YeWkanl_m89tMZ3w

 

[Harold]

Recording or streaming?

 

[Sukiyucky]

You are trying to game and record on a laptop mobile CPU. Laptops are not designed to game and record/stream with software encoding (i.e. x264) concurrently. More so if you have few cores and threads available. Sure, it **can** work but I would dial things down to avoid problems.

On a system like yours, best to stay away from x264 encoding which taxes the CPU. Use the onboard Nvidia GPU encoder instead. That will free the cores from x264's heavy CPU utilization and reduce CPU core temperatures too. Do this by going to OBS Advanced Output and choosing for the encoder Nvidia NVENC H.264 (new). Your GTX 1050 is Pascal chip and should support H.264 and H.265.

In addition, since an i5-8300H isn't the speediest CPU in the world, I would consider producing 720p output (1280x720) instead of your existing 1920x1080. Do this by going to OBS Video and changing Output Scaled Resolution to 1280x720. Also, since you are downscaling, you can use either Lanczos or Bicubic as the downscale filter.

Also, make sure you go to Nvidia and download GeForce Experience to get the latest GPU drivers. Very important to do that once a month.

 

[FD1 Gamer]

I do use Nividia NVENC H.264 but the problem is that when I play a game in real-time the video quality is more sharp and clearer after it is recorded.

 

[FD1 Gamer]

I am recording by the way my specs aren't great but I don't think that's the main issue. I'm pretty sure I tested all my video encoders and there is no difference in the video quality

 

[BluePeer]

the log you postet
have a record in


18:34:04.620: [x264 encoder: 'recording_h264'] preset: medium
18:34:04.620: [x264 encoder: 'recording_h264'] profile: high
18:34:04.853: [x264 encoder: 'recording_h264'] settings:
18:34:04.853: rate_control: CBR
18:34:04.853: bitrate: 9000
18:34:04.853: buffer size: 9000
18:34:04.853: crf: 0
18:34:04.853: fps_num: 60
18:34:04.853: fps_den: 1
18:34:04.853: width: 1280
18:34:04.853: height: 720
18:34:04.853: keyint: 250


for your Understand you LIMIT your QUALITY with the Bitrate limit recording never use CBR this will results in good and bad results in the video related to slow and fast / low and high detail areas

for record use a CQP setting Constant Quality
With that you select a target quality
lower is better higher is more bad
value between 15-21 mostly good

another point is here

18:34:04.853: width: 1280
18:34:04.853: height: 720
you do a downscale
downscale results all time in shit quality

 

[FD1 Gamer]

the log you postet
have a record in


18:34:04.620: [x264 encoder: 'recording_h264'] preset: medium
18:34:04.620: [x264 encoder: 'recording_h264'] profile: high
18:34:04.853: [x264 encoder: 'recording_h264'] settings:
18:34:04.853: rate_control: CBR
18:34:04.853: bitrate: 9000
18:34:04.853: buffer size: 9000
18:34:04.853: crf: 0
18:34:04.853: fps_num: 60
18:34:04.853: fps_den: 1
18:34:04.853: width: 1280
18:34:04.853: height: 720
18:34:04.853: keyint: 250


for your Understand you LIMIT your QUALITY with the Bitrate limit recording never use CBR this will results in good and bad results in the video related to slow and fast / low and high detail areas

for record use a CQP setting Constant Quality
With that you select a target quality
lower is better higher is more bad
value between 15-21 mostly good

another point is here

18:34:04.853: width: 1280
18:34:04.853: height: 720
you do a downscale
downscale results all time in shit quality

Why did it downscale it's 1920x1080p on obs video settings, my pc screen is 1080p.

 

[FD1 Gamer]

My canvas resoultion and scaled resoultion are both on 1920x1080 did I do something wrong? Please let me know!

 

[BluePeer]

you have select a downscale to 720P on output

 

[FD1 Gamer]

Does it stay 1080p? I recorded 1080p on geforce experience it came out good but the problem is that I can't take out the background noise in shadowplay and record my desktop. This is why I want to use OBS to capture any game or window but I want it to stay in 1080p quality.

 

[FD1 Gamer]

Still No diffrence

 

[carlmmii]

According to the logs, your canvas resolution and output (scaled) resolution are both set to 1920x1080, but you are rescaling to 1280x720 in the encoder. Also, you are using the x264 encoder, not the NVenc encoder as recommended.

 

[david1379]

You are trying to game and record on a laptop mobile CPU. Laptops are not designed to game and record/stream with software encoding (i.e. x264) concurrently. More so if you have few cores and threads available. Sure, it **can** work but I would dial things down to avoid problems.

On a system like yours, best to stay away from x264 encoding which taxes the CPU. Use the onboard Nvidia GPU encoder instead. That will free the cores from x264's heavy CPU utilization and reduce CPU core temperatures too. Do this by going to OBS Advanced Output and choosing for the encoder Nvidia NVENC H.264 (new). Your GTX 1050 is Pascal chip and should support H.264 and H.265.

In addition, since an i5-8300H isn't the speediest CPU in the world, I would consider producing 720p output (1280x720) instead of your existing 1920x1080. Do this by going to OBS Video and changing Output Scaled Resolution to 1280x720. Also, since you are downscaling, you can use either Lanczos or Bicubic as the downscale filter.

Also, make sure you go to Nvidia and download GeForce Experience to get the latest GPU drivers. Very important to do that once a month.

I do use Nividia NVENC H.264 but the problem is that when I play a game in real-time the video quality is more sharp and clearer after it is recorded.

Oh Yeh Thanks bro .. will update every thing so some refence is good
Thanks

 

[FD1 Gamer]

The ISSUE has been resolved! I took a break from obs but when I tried to record Minecraft it didn't work so I switched to display capture and it has so much better quality turns out when I stretched my screen (there were black bars) in window capture it lowered the resolution.