Recording does not look smooth.

[Chadoy]

I just got a new PC just so I could record and play at the highest quality.

Specs: i9-10900K & RTX 3090

The game is perfectly fine when I'm playing always above 60fps but when I look at the OBS preview, it is not necessarily laggy or choppy - it's just not smooth, and I don't know what the issue is. Also, during one recording, the majority of the video was frozen on different frames but audio played out. I read in a previous thread that it had something to do with 'Game Mode'. I have since turned that off, but unfortunately, I can't seem to find the log for that recording. They're all named differently, so I just posted all 4 logs that I have from today.

Also, here's a video of what I'm talking about. The first 7 seconds are fairly smooth, but the following is pretty terrible. It looked fine in game while I was violently moving my mouse around.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G11ldH-y0-A

 

[carlmmii]

You're encountering a considerable amount of encoding lag.

Run OBS as admin. This places OBS in the GPU priority list.

Turn off Psychovisual Tuning and Lookahead. Also change from "Max Quality" to "Quality". All of these settings use CUDA and can cause issues with encoding since it's fighting with your current running game.

You're also recording to your E: drive, and any issue with direct recording there will also show up as encoding lag. If you still have encoding lag after making the above changes, then try recording to a different drive.


Also, one final note: don't record to .mp4. If anything halts the recording process before the recording can properly be closed, then the entire recording will be corrupted. Instead, record to .mkv. If you need .mp4 formatted files, then you can remux the file afterward within OBS (either File -> Remux, or use the setting to remux files automatically, located in the advanced settings).