Question / Help OBS Studio Frames don't stay at 60fps.

[ItsNaterHD]

Hello guys! I have a problem that's been annoying me for a long time. I use OBS Studio to record this game called DayZ with Display Capture. It only works that way (Game's fault). When I record at 1440p with Nvidia's Encoder, it starts recording at 60fps but then slowly fluctuates between 59 frames to 48 frames.

I don't lose any in-game fps at all and the recording files are fine (just not at 60fps constant).

If anyone can help me out with this problem it would be awesome.

Here's my most recent log:
https://gist.github.com/339cd5d25196500e3dcda83d7aa9616f

 

[Harold]

It only works that way (Game's fault)

Or you could turn off anti-ailaising in the game's settings and make sure OBS is also running as admin.

 

[xxAssassin349]

Maybe NVENC records in variable frame rate.

 

[ItsNaterHD]

Or you could turn off anti-ailaising in the game's settings and make sure OBS is also running as admin.

I would do that, but the game doesn't look nearly as good without it on.

 

[C-Dude]

Ignore them. Turn on Vsync in game. Or cap the games framerate at 60.

What is most likely happening is that the game is using all of your GPU and there isn't enough left for OBS to encode with. By capping your frame rate this frees up some GPU for OBS to use. (this can also happen with CPU)

You can also try using windowed capture, which for whatever reason sometimes works better for not dropping frames while uncapped but usually just creates more lag.