Question / Help Recording Creates Either Poor Quality or Black Screen

Jay Ingram

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Over the weekend, I was recording the game Cobalt and it's not very intensive. Everything turned out fine at 60fps and 1080p. Now, I'm trying to record The Division footage. I changed a bunch of my settings based off a guide I found on here just in case things didn't work, but now it's pretty clear that I did something wrong. I did a fresh install of OBS, but things aren't any better. Other games, including Cobalt, look bad now, too. I've tested all sorts of different scenes (window, monitor, and game) but they all have issues. Additionally, Xbox DVR for W10 creates a beautiful image, but there's no sound. I don't think this is a hardware issue since I've also recorded other intensive games in the past. Below you'll find my hardware specs and the log.

GTX 970
Intel i5 4670K at 3.4 hrz
64x OS Windows 10
16GB RAM

https://gist.github.com/d42c1561cfb103b226bb

It seems pretty long, so I don't think I should past the whole thing. I'm not sure what all of you need from it. In any case, thank you in advance and I'd really appreciate some help.

I'd also like to say that I need it to be in 1080p. I would greatly prefer 60fps, but if I need to take 30, I'll take it. Also, if you want examples of what I see, I can upload to YouTube and share it with all of you.

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF6wvsY-sa4&feature=youtu.be
The game isn't stuttering like this.
 
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sam686

Member
Log file shows: 16:06:56: Total frames encoded: 10169, total frames duplicated: 4480 (44.06%)

Most CPU aren't strong enough to do 1080p 60 fps x264 compression at "VeryFast", change preset to "SuperFast" or "UltraFast" to reduce CPU usage and reduce skipped or laggy video, at a small cost of quality or bigger file size.
 
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