Question / Help Obs Lag But game is smooth?

[TheDevastator]

When recording or streaming I get low FPS in OBS but in game I get high and very smooth FPS. I run the 264 encoder on very fast. I’ve hear using the NVENC is better but not convinced, any tips?

 

[BK-Morpheus]

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/please-post-a-log-with-your-issue-heres-how.23074/

My guess is, that you have rendering lag, which is caused by overloading your GPU (for example by not using a reasonable FPS limit ingame).

 

[Org]

If your rendering gpu, or cpu is maxed out you're choking the encoder. You need to lower the encoder settings in 264x if your cpu is maxing out, and if the gpu is maxing out you need to lower the game detail, possibly the resolution too. I suggest software like MSI Afterburner to see your gpu usage, and the bundled software riva tuner can also possibly limit the fps of the game to say 30 fps so you can capture it as many people stream at 30 fps anyway. You can't expect a game to capture well when the gpu is maxed out, you are created a bottleneck. Only in cases of people having a dedicated streaming computer with a capture card can you not worry about that.

Also an update to Win 10 has made obs use a ton more usage, over double, I made a bug post about it, but nobody has responded. Obs by itself was using 23% of my gpu doing nothing now, and that also affects my games performance. So take a look at how much actual resource usage obs is using, not just what it reports on it's stats.

 

[BK-Morpheus]

@Org: Please make sure, that the "Obs by itself was using 23% of my gpu doing nothing" is based on GPU-Z values and not Win10 Taskmanager.
Windows Taskmanager shows me 26% 3D GPU load from OBS, but no load from my game. It's simply wrong.

 

[Org]

@BK-Morpheus I'm not going to respond to you in this thread. I was merely mentioning as it was relevant, and yes it was affecting my capture and game fps.