OBS Studio recording super laggy on 2003 RPG game "pirates of the caribbean"

[Lonious]

I play a game called Pirates of the Caribbean which is a 2003 RPG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(video_game)

Now there is this game mode called Sea mode where you play as a ship and fight other ships.

On that game mode, OBS is horribly laggy. I tried setting Priority to High, putting down the Video Bitrate, and using the Hardware Encoder, to no avail.

Would anyone know of a solution to this?

Thanks very much.

Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/acf-QPD0K-HhxZt-

 

[BK-Morpheus]

[...]
number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 443/672 (65.9%)
[...]
The little dual Core i3 processor is not fast enough (or has not enough cores) to handle the additional encoding load while gaming.

 

[Lonious]

[...]
number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 443/672 (65.9%)
[...]
The little dual Core i3 processor is not fast enough (or has not enough cores) to handle the additional encoding load while gaming.

So my computer isn't powerful enough?

I wouldn't imagine this would happen with a 2003 game...

 

[BK-Morpheus]

It might not happen with that game alone...but encoding FullHD 30fps with OBS while gaming, is too much for just 2 cores.
You can try to lower the resolution in OBS for the stream/recording to 480p.

 

[Lonious]

It might not happen with that game alone...but encoding FullHD 30fps with OBS while gaming, is too much for just 2 cores.
You can try to lower the resolution in OBS for the stream/recording to 480p.

I put the video bitrate really low (if this is what you refer to?), like 500, and saw no significant change.

For what it is worth, the lag happens specifically when the ships fire their guns. For the most part it seems to run fine. Also, the game is smooth - it is the video that isn't.

 

[alex6342]

I am too getting this issue today. My bitrate is low even I am facing laggy issues. Hope for some solutions soon.

 

[BK-Morpheus]

I put the video bitrate really low (if this is what you refer to?), like 500, and saw no significant change.

For what it is worth, the lag happens specifically when the ships fire their guns. For the most part it seems to run fine. Also, the game is smooth - it is the video that isn't.

No, I'm talking about the video resolution, not the bitrate.

 

[alex6342]

No, I'm talking about the mcdvoice video resolution, not the bitrate.

Problem still coming randomly..

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Problem still coming randomly..

Understand that it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY to be random. As alluded to above, real-time video encoding is VERY computationally demanding.

What is most likely is that you are doing the equivalent of driving blind-folded and confused by unexpected bumps and stops. The 'trick/hack' is to do at least computer resource monitoring (Task Manager->Performance Tab or better yet Resource Monitor) to see the correlation with CPU, GPU, and RAM utilization, as well as Disk I/O.