Question / Help OBS recordings lag

[BeanMeister]

Hey.

I have a pretty good computer. 1660 super GPU, Ryzen 7 processor. I have a 144Hz monitor. All of my games run really smoothly. However, OBS doesn't seem like it wants to cooperate with me. I have done A LOT of research and nothing seems to help. I have my settings at 1080p, 60 fps. However, the recording seems like it's displaying much lower than 60 fps. It may be even under 30 fps! My recordings used to be fine, and I don't remember what settings I have, but I can't seem to find the problem. I have tried all the bitrates. VBR, CBR, CQP, and lossless. At this point, I'm just lost. I'm genuinely about to give up. I really don't know what to do and I'm looking for someone to help me.

Any suggestions?

 

[FerretBomb]

Post a logfile from a recording session at least 30 seconds in length, as it requests when you open a ticket in the Support section. There's a pinned topic at the top of the forum with instructions on how to do so.

Two of the most common problems:
1) If you have multiple monitors, they ALL need to be running at the SAME refresh rate. This is due to a long-standing Windows bug that cannot deal with mixed refresh rates well on the desktop compositor. So if you have a 60hz monitor hooked up, you need to set your 144hz monitor to run at 60hz too, to fix the problem. There is a fix coming for this in the Win10 2004 update sometime later this year, or next year.

2) If you only have one monitor, 144 does not divide evenly into 60. You will get uneven frame pacing, causing a degree of visual judder. Set your monitor to run at 120hz, which divides evenly down (OBS will just drop every other frame, instead of the 1-2-skip-a-few required to take 144 down to 60).

 

[BeanMeister]

Post a logfile from a recording session at least 30 seconds in length, as it requests when you open a ticket in the Support section. There's a pinned topic at the top of the forum with instructions on how to do so.

Two of the most common problems:
1) If you have multiple monitors, they ALL need to be running at the SAME refresh rate. This is due to a long-standing Windows bug that cannot deal with mixed refresh rates well on the desktop compositor. So if you have a 60hz monitor hooked up, you need to set your 144hz monitor to run at 60hz too, to fix the problem. There is a fix coming for this in the Win10 2004 update sometime later this year, or next year.

2) If you only have one monitor, 144 does not divide evenly into 60. You will get uneven frame pacing, causing a degree of visual judder. Set your monitor to run at 120hz, which divides evenly down (OBS will just drop every other frame, instead of the 1-2-skip-a-few required to take 144 down to 60).

Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely try this out

 

[BeanMeister]

Post a logfile from a recording session at least 30 seconds in length, as it requests when you open a ticket in the Support section. There's a pinned topic at the top of the forum with instructions on how to do so.

Two of the most common problems:
1) If you have multiple monitors, they ALL need to be running at the SAME refresh rate. This is due to a long-standing Windows bug that cannot deal with mixed refresh rates well on the desktop compositor. So if you have a 60hz monitor hooked up, you need to set your 144hz monitor to run at 60hz too, to fix the problem. There is a fix coming for this in the Win10 2004 update sometime later this year, or next year.

2) If you only have one monitor, 144 does not divide evenly into 60. You will get uneven frame pacing, causing a degree of visual judder. Set your monitor to run at 120hz, which divides evenly down (OBS will just drop every other frame, instead of the 1-2-skip-a-few required to take 144 down to 60).

I have tried it, and it still doesn't seem to fix the problem