OBS recording is laggy?

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1. The Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling ("HAGS") feature in Windows is currently known to cause issues with OBS. We recommend disabling it via these instructions. Make sure you restart after disabling it.
2. Run OBS as Admin.
3. Display, Game and Window Capture Sources interfere with each other. Never put them in the same scene.
4. Multiple Game Capture sources are usually not needed, and can sometimes interfere with each other. You can use the same Game Capture for all your games. If you change games often, try out the hotkey mode, which lets you press a key to select your active game. If you play games in fullscreen, use 'Capture any fullscreen application' mode.
5. Your GPU is maxed out and OBS can't render (3.6%) scenes fast enough. Running a game without vertical sync or a frame rate limiter will frequently cause performance issues with OBS because your GPU will be maxed out. OBS requires a little GPU to render your scene. Enable Vsync or set a reasonable frame rate (60, 30) limit that your GPU can handle without hitting 100% usage. If you're gaming on your 75 Hz screen, change that to 60 Hz for now.

If that's not enough you may also need to turn down some of the video quality options in the game. If you are experiencing issues in general while using OBS, your GPU may be overloaded for the settings you are trying to use. Please check our guide for ideas why this may be happening, and steps you can take to correct it: GPU Overload Issues.
6. The encoder is skipping 83.4% of the frames because of CPU overload. You should use the GPU encoder. Tool > Auto-Configuration Wizard > Optimize just for recording [Next], apply the settings, close and re-open OBS as Admin and try again.

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