OBS still lagging in general even after adjusting the settings

[kumo0o]

Well hey first of all.

My problem is that simply said, my OBS is lagging while playing games but the thing is that it lags in streams aswell as in recordings. Ingame i have solid 60fps constantly and also as soon as i tab out of the game the recording starts to go on fluidly without any stutters but as soon as i switch back into the game it starts again.
(I don't know if its a good information but the game i'm having these problems with is GTA 5)

I have adjust my settings to the following -

but no matter how high or low i put the settings i still get these buffers in both my recordings and streams.
(My streaming settings are pretty much the same except a Bitrate of 6000 and the Preset is set to Performance. The rest is the same as in my recording settings)

My pc specs are:
CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K 3.60GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
RAM: 16GB

I really hope somebody can please help me with this.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

First - hopefully realize, that regardless of what anyone else says, real-time video encoding is VERY computationally demanding.
You system is powerful enough, depending on what you are doing. If your game play is maxing out the system, then there won't be spare resources to for OBS.
Hopefully you are monitoring hardware resource (CPU, GPU, RAM, etc) utilization [for ex. using Task manager’s Performance tab and/or Resource Monitor] to see if your system is being maxed out with your settings, right? or are you flying blind, so to speak?

The above image indicates to me you don't follow instructions ... so major functional problems is not unexpected
- Note the warning about recording to MP4 ... don't ignore that, if for no other reason than folks who might be in a position to help you, ignore your (further) requests
- WTH - recording using CBR, and at 16k bitrate? do some research on this... wherever/whatever led you to this setting... burn it/never return there/ignore them [you stream CBR, *IF* you have sufficient resources to also record at different settings, then you dont' record using CBR
- and as noted all the time in these forums all over the place, beware Psycho Visual Tunings as that uses CUDA cores
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/best-settings.140188/#post-514693

clearly you are overwhelming your system. Having separate stream and recording settings means 2X the encoding workload. stop that. use same settings until you get something working, then adjust ... based on research. Basic scientific method.. start simple, then slowly layer/add on WHEN you know what you are doing (or at least track and know how to easily back out a change)

Then, you should follow the simple instructions in this forum for asking for help

Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...

OBS Studio creates a log file each time you run it which contains very useful diagnostic information. Without a log file, it's much harder for any support volunteers to figure out problems and your post may be ignored. To upload a log file, go to the Help menu > Log Files > Upload Last Log...

obsproject.com

Further, the above log will only provide details on OBS. Your Operating System also needs to be well-configured (or at least not screwed up, as most people's is). Your OBS settings can be spot on, but if you've messed up your OS, you will struggle regardless