OBS running at 60fps but the game footage running much slower

[Razorninja]

I just upgraded my pc a few days ago and it runs any game I throw at it like a dream. However, whenever obs shows the gameplay footage, it shows as if its 30fps or less. Even after I put my obs settings to capture 60fps and increasing my bitrate. Keep in mind my game performance is unhindered when obs is up. I never had a problem with this before my upgrades and everything is still freshly installed as of a few days ago. I'm not sure what exactly is causing the gameplay to be so slow on obs, even with testing lighter games such as vampire survivors.

 

[Razorninja]

Edit: here's a more recent and proper log file to help with it. I was streaming fortnite in this one for testing purposes and at first, it was good, but once it got to the actual gameplay that the obs footage started to get slow.

 

[deFrisselle]

Please post a log that is from a Streaming or Recoding session This one has an Auto Config Wizard session in it That doesn't make it very helpful
Also, figure out that the minimum FPS your game hits then locks the game at a value lower than that is a multiple of 60 This helps in skipped frames and render lag as there will always be a frame in the buffer when OBS needs one

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Okay, you only need one capture per scene Multiple, especially Display and Capture in the same scene causes conflicts Don't need to capture the Display when you are Capturing the game That a double capture

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[Razorninja]

I'll look into keeping one capture per scene. I also did change the encoder preset to fastest in between the auto config log and the non auto config one. Which did help when capturing light games like vampire survivors. However higher-end games like Fortnite still appear as if it was captured at a lower framerate.

 

[hyperreal]

Prepare to go down the rabbit hole. I have tried every trick I have found on the forums.

Running games in full screen and borderless, with Gsync compatible mode on and off.
Disabling Windows features like game bar, game DVR and HAGS.
Caps at 60 or 120 fps, with and without changing the monitor refresh rate.
Enabling "Limit capture framerate" in Game Capture settings.
Lowering game settings to achieve smoother framerates and rule out encoder overload.
Various tweaks to NVENC settings.

At some point I thought maybe it's just my monitor so I tried watching one of my streams as a VOD from Twitch using Apple TV connected to my 60 Hz 4K television. Didn't look smooth at all.
The VODs look okay(ish) only when viewed on a phone.

No frame drops shown in OBS stats while encoding, whether it's streaming to Twitch or recording to an internal SSD.
No notifications about anything in the logs when sent to the analyzer, except when HAGS is on, but I've left it on since disabling it didn't change anything, I have an RTX 4070 Ti and DLSS frame generation does not work without HAGS.

This seems to be a common issue and despite everything I've read I'm still not sure whether it is just bad luck - a very specific problem with some builds - or a problem in Windows and/or OBS.

Good luck, friend.

 

[TKTV]

Prepare to go down the rabbit hole. I have tried every trick I have found on the forums.

Running games in full screen and borderless, with Gsync compatible mode on and off.
Disabling Windows features like game bar, game DVR and HAGS.
Caps at 60 or 120 fps, with and without changing the monitor refresh rate.
Enabling "Limit capture framerate" in Game Capture settings.
Lowering game settings to achieve smoother framerates and rule out encoder overload.
Various tweaks to NVENC settings.

At some point I thought maybe it's just my monitor so I tried watching one of my streams as a VOD from Twitch using Apple TV connected to my 60 Hz 4K television. Didn't look smooth at all.
The VODs look okay(ish) only when viewed on a phone.

No frame drops shown in OBS stats while encoding, whether it's streaming to Twitch or recording to an internal SSD.
No notifications about anything in the logs when sent to the analyzer, except when HAGS is on, but I've left it on since disabling it didn't change anything, I have an RTX 4070 Ti and DLSS frame generation does not work without HAGS.

This seems to be a common issue and despite everything I've read I'm still not sure whether it is just bad luck - a very specific problem with some builds - or a problem in Windows and/or OBS.

Good luck, friend.

In the same boat as you, your words literally mirror my situation. I've been trying to solve this for at least 3 years over a couple different pc builds/new monitors etc. Every time I see a new recommendation on what will work/help, it fails and I am left to assume there is nothing left to try. It's also odd that I've seen people with nearly the exact same builds, stream nearly flawlessly. Here's to hoping some sort of small miracle helps us soon!