Question / Help Please I need help. Why does it get so laggy when I record?

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OriginalBookworm

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Hey everyone,

I am recording on my Macbook Pro 2016. I am trying to record a Roblox gaming video but it just seems to be way too laggy.

I followed so many different settings setup, especially on YouTube to see whatever works to make the gaming really smooth. It does not go smooth AT ALL. When it's rendered, it just gets very very choppy/laggy/slow. When I'm gaming, it's really smooth.

Here's my example: https://youtu.be/TaE9shPUvZs

I just want it to go smooth like this guys gaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lO8e7Gp6k
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

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You're severely overloading your encoder.

18:22:21.315: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 323/356 (90.7%)

I would try using the CPU encoder instead, although with only a 2Ghz i5 that might not be much better, if at all.

You also for some reason started with 720p and then changed to 1080p. If the machine can't handle 720p30, increasing the resolution isn't going to help.
 
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OriginalBookworm

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Narcogen said:
You're severely overloading your encoder.

18:22:21.315: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 323/356 (90.7%)

I would try using the CPU encoder instead, although with only a 2Ghz i5 that might not be much better, if at all.

You also for some reason started with 720p and then changed to 1080p. If the machine can't handle 720p30, increasing the resolution isn't going to help.
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So, OBS is definitely not compatible for this laptop... Thank you and I appreciate your help so much. I was wondering if you have any good affordable recommendation on a computer specifically for gaming/streaming/recording. I'm highly disappointed in this laptop. It'll just be used for editing...
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

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Get a desktop with the fastest CPU and best Nvidia GPU you can justify. OBS will use anything you throw at it. Having an integrated GPU is better than not having it, having a strong discrete GPU is even better. Laptops with dual GPUs can have problems relating to doing capture of graphics intensive games (which you'll want to do on a discrete GPU) or capturing apps that you need to do display capture for (which will require running OBS on the integrated GPU). Desktops don't have this issue-- it's because a laptop with two GPUs has only one display, whereas on a desktop what matters is what display(s) are plugged into which ports.
 
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lth0ms0n

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So, I'm having the same issue on my machine (with a new install of OBS Studio - having moved from OBS StreamLabs, as I'm a YouTuber) the spec is:

- 2019 16" MacBook Pro
- 6-core i7 2.66GHz
-16GB RAM
- AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4GB

When I recorded my gameplay with Studio, for the first time last week, it was laggy and SERIOUSLY low-res (With Streamlabs it's just laggy).

The CPU on the machine is not busy when the machine is running the game and recording (it's The Sims 4, usually) and gameplay itself is flawless, so I don't think it's performance related - probably a settings issue?

What I don't understand is, I know that there have been times where the recording has been flawless - I just can't remember what the difference is between now and then, not a setting in SLOBS, however...
 
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