Question / Help OBS Not Recording Overwatch at 60 FPS

[Lovan]

Title says it all. It can record pretty much any other game smoothly at 60 fps, but for some reason Overwatch looks incredibly choppy. Even if I set it to lossless, the gameplay still doesn't get 60.

Please let me know if it's a software or a hardware issue.


01:08:51.549: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
01:08:51.549: CPU Speed: 3492MHz
01:08:51.549: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
01:08:51.549: Physical Memory: 16230MB Total, 9339MB Free
01:08:51.549: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 14393 (revision: 1198; 64-bit)
01:08:51.549: Running as administrator: false
01:08:51.549: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
01:08:51.549: Portable mode: false
01:08:51.570: OBS 20.0.0 (64bit, windows)
01:08:51.570: ---------------------------------
01:08:51.570: ---------------------------------
01:08:51.570: audio settings reset:
01:08:51.570: samples per sec: 44100
01:08:51.570: speakers: 2
01:08:51.571: ---------------------------------
01:08:51.571: Initializing D3D11...
01:08:51.571: Available Video Adapters:
01:08:51.572: Adapter 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
01:08:51.572: Dedicated VRAM: 4219404288
01:08:51.572: Shared VRAM: 4214226944
01:08:51.572: output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={2560, 1440}, attached=true
01:08:51.572: output 2: pos={2560, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true
01:08:51.572: Adapter 2: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600
01:08:51.572: Dedicated VRAM: 117964800
01:08:51.572: Shared VRAM: 2147483648
01:08:51.573: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (0)
01:08:52.104: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: 45056
01:08:52.747: ---------------------------------
01:08:52.747: video settings reset:
01:08:52.747: base resolution: 2560x1440
01:08:52.747: output resolution: 1920x1080
01:08:52.747: downscale filter: Lanczos
01:08:52.747: fps: 60/1
01:08:52.747: format: NV12
01:08:52.748: Audio monitoring device:
01:08:52.748: name: Default
01:08:52.748: id: default
01:08:52.748: ---------------------------------
01:08:52.749: [CoreAudio encoder]: CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded
01:08:52.750: [AMF] Encountered Exception during AMF initialization: Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.
01:08:52.750: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
01:08:52.754: NVENC supported
01:08:52.765: Couldn't find VLC installation, VLC video source disabled
01:08:52.767: No blackmagic support
01:08:52.939: ---------------------------------
01:08:52.939: Loaded Modules:
01:08:52.939: win-wasapi.dll
01:08:52.939: win-mf.dll
01:08:52.939: win-dshow.dll
01:08:52.939: win-decklink.dll
01:08:52.939: win-capture.dll
01:08:52.939: vlc-video.dll
01:08:52.939: text-freetype2.dll
01:08:52.939: rtmp-services.dll
01:08:52.939: obs-x264.dll
01:08:52.939: obs-vst.dll
01:08:52.939: obs-transitions.dll
01:08:52.939: obs-text.dll
01:08:52.939: obs-qsv11.dll
01:08:52.939: obs-outputs.dll
01:08:52.939: obs-filters.dll
01:08:52.939: obs-ffmpeg.dll
01:08:52.939: image-source.dll
01:08:52.939: frontend-tools.dll
01:08:52.939: enc-amf.dll
01:08:52.939: coreaudio-encoder.dll
01:08:52.939: ---------------------------------
01:08:52.939: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
01:08:52.939: Service '' not found
01:08:52.942: All scene data cleared
01:08:52.942: ------------------------------------------------
01:08:52.958: WASAPI: Device 'CABLE Input (VB-Audio Virtual Cable)' initialized
01:08:52.961: WASAPI: Device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' initialized
01:08:52.970: WASAPI: Device 'CABLE-B Output (VB-Audio Cable B)' initialized
01:08:52.993: adding 46 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 46 milliseconds
01:08:57.120: Switched to scene 'Scene'
01:08:57.121: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook process: Overwatch.exe
01:08:57.122: ------------------------------------------------
01:08:57.122: Loaded scenes:
01:08:57.122: - scene 'Scene':
01:08:57.122: - source: 'Display Capture' (monitor_capture)
01:08:57.122: - source: 'Game Capture' (game_capture)
01:08:57.122: ------------------------------------------------
01:08:57.131: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] shared texture capture successful

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

enable vsync in game

 

[Lovan]

It is enabled.

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

post new log then, with recording session

 

[Lovan]

Here you are:

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

looks like you maxing gpu, so you dont have vsync enabled, or if its 144hz monitor you should switch desktop refresh=ingame fps setting=60 and make sure vsync is on

 

[H4ndy]

Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 30766 (43.3%)

Your GPU is maxed out.
In Overwatch, Set Video > Advance > Render Scale to 100 if it is over 100.
If its still not working, limit FPS around -10% what you get now (so you get 100 fps, limit to 90 fps).

 

[Lovan]

That seems to have helped quite a bit. Is there a way to tell what frames the video itself is actually recorded at? When I play it back, it doesn't seem to be at 60 fps.

Thank you for your help so far!

 

[Lovan]

Scratch that - I'm only getting like 40 fps for some reason. How can I improve this? Shouldn't a 1070 be able to handle Overwatch? I have friends with 1060s who are steadily running at 80 frames.