Question / Help Random Freezes for ~300ms - only when using display capture PREVIEW enabled.

[risingSilence]

hey guys,

I am currently recording my gameplay with OBS Studio x64 using display capture. recording works perfectly file as long as I have preview disabled. BUT if I enable preview I get micro freezes, every ~5 seconds, lasting ~300ms in every full screen game. Encoding settings dont change anything, since it also happens if Im only previewing (not recording). Its just the preview ITSELF causing the stutter.

Especially with DayZ Standalone 0.60 I am forced to use display capture, as game capture only allows capturing the game without anti-aliasing (which is a PITA in dayz). But occasionally all you get is a black screen - retabbing into the game fixes that - but how would I know if Im also forced to keep preview disabled? thats my current dilemma.

So I really need Display Capture working with the preview function without stuttering.

OBS Studio is running on my second screen (60hz) while my games are displayed to a 144hz monitor.

System:

Core i7 3770k (4,5ghz)
16gb Ram
Asus Sabertooth z77
GTX 1080
Windows 10 x64

Current logfile:

https://gist.github.com/fa9c3becf799217cff266ec3b3cbac3d

Any ideas?

 

[Suslik V]

What fps you have in game? (fraps counter etc.)

Edit: your system is too weak to do 144fps capture.

 

[Durks]

I'm fairly sure this is a GTX1080 problem. A friend and I have the exact same problem and we have very similar setups (nearly identical excluding the CPU which are 4770k/4790k)

 

[RytoEX]

I thought I read a thread about an issue with OBS Studio being on a different monitor with a different refresh rate than its sources. Though, I couldn't say if that's an OBS Studio problem or a problem inherent to capture programs in general, or if the problem doesn't exist and it was all coincidence.

Ah, found the thread: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/previous-versions-of-obs-studio.50568/#post-224964