Question / Help (OBS Studio) Laggy Recordings & Game.

[Chaos]

Log File: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/fb7fc2d32e210eb468c6bce0fc74b5ee

My videos have been laggy in the recordings and also in game, i've tried everything but nothing works, any advice?

My Settings:
Output:
Output mode: Simple.
Recording Quality: High quality, medium file size.
Recording Format: MP4.
Encoder: Software (x264)

Video:
Base (canvas) resolution: 1920x1080
Output (scaled) resolution: 1920x1080
Downscale filter: Bilinear
Common FPS values: 60

Advanced:
General: Process priority: High
Video: Renderer: Direct3D 11

My videos have been laggy in the recordings and also in game, i've tried everything but nothing works, any advice?

 

[M13stream]

Overwatch is very hungry to GPU/CPU on high frame rate. Try to use downscale to 1280x720p.

 

[Chaos]

Overwatch is very hungry to GPU/CPU on high frame rate. Try to use downscale to 1280x720p.

I've tried that but even still lag is there, plus i have a 6700k and gtx 1080.

 

[RytoEX]

Do you have your Overwatch framerate capped? If not, cap it to something reasonable.

Regardless of your 6700K, Overwatch is CPU hungry, as is x264 encoding. If both processes occupy high-load cores, they're going to fight for CPU time with other processes.

As an aside, you should record to FLV and remux to MP4 later.

 

[Chaos]

I set a cap and saw a small difference, thank you!

Do you have your Overwatch framerate capped? If not, cap it to something reasonable.

Regardless of your 6700K, Overwatch is CPU hungry, as is x264 encoding. If both processes occupy high-load cores, they're going to fight for CPU time with other processes.

As an aside, you should record to FLV and remux to MP4 later.

 

[Beardedbob]

I've tried that but even still lag is there, plus i have a 6700k and gtx 1080.

Yep but the 6700 is only 4 core and x264 cpu is intensive. You could also try Nvnec with 40k bitrate this would free up the CPU.

 

[RytoEX]

Yep but the 6700 is only 4 core and x264 cpu is intensive. You could also try Nvnec with 40k bitrate this would free up the CPU.

There's not much sense in setting a bitrate when recording. With NVENC, you'd use CQP instead. See here.

 

[Beardedbob]

There's not much sense in setting a bitrate when recording. With NVENC, you'd use CQP instead. See here.

CQP is fine also though I've found setting a specific bitrate better than having to set the quality level, but each to their own.