Question / Help Recording: encoding overload / Lags

[OneNonlyNova]

I'm having trouble recording with OBS. I've tried a lot of different settings from different guides now but none seem to work.
There is lag in the video and sometimes it just completly freezes.

example of freezing (this was recording with different settings though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-heSk7zd9k
test video with the exact same settings are linked below: https://youtu.be/Z5JYhPed07s
This test video full length (34minutes) also gave me a 29,2GB file which is quite huge for that length isn't it?

Here is my settings + cpu-z + gpu-z: http://imgur.com/a/52yaC
Recordings are going to a 500Read/400Write ssd.
Please note in that log file there are some test recodings with different settings in the beginning!

As i'm having a pretty good cpu/gpu + ssd i don't see any reason why this is happening :/

I would be very glad to receive some advice, i'm pretty good on tech stuff usually
but this is giving me a hard time.

any help appreciated!

regards,

alex

 

[TheShadowGamer06]

Select the encoder to "NVENC H.264", depending on what resolution you want the video to be outputted to, you can choose to rescale it if you want. Make sure "Rate Control" is set to "CBR", "Bitrate" 50,000 (DO NOT INCLUDE THE COMMA IN 50,000, INSTEAD IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS: 50000). "Keyframe Interval" should be kept to 0, "Preset" default, "Profile" main, "Level" auto (MAKE SURE TWO-PASS ENCODING IS CHECKED), "GPU" set to 0, and last but not least "B-Frames" should be set to 2.

If you are still having issues, mess around with the bitrate and set "GPU" to 1.

Also, looking at the screenshots you provided, set the "YUV Color Space" to 601 :)

Aaaaaaaannnnnndddddd change "Bind to IP" so it says "Default"

 

[OneNonlyNova]

Select the encoder to "NVENC H.264", depending on what resolution you want the video to be outputted to, you can choose to rescale it if you want. Make sure "Rate Control" is set to "CBR", "Bitrate" 50,000 (DO NOT INCLUDE THE COMMA IN 50,000, INSTEAD IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS: 50000). "Keyframe Interval" should be kept to 0, "Preset" default, "Profile" main, "Level" auto (MAKE SURE TWO-PASS ENCODING IS CHECKED), "GPU" set to 0, and last but not least "B-Frames" should be set to 2.

If you are still having issues, mess around with the bitrate and set "GPU" to 1.

Also, looking at the screenshots you provided, set the "YUV Color Space" to 601 :)

Aaaaaaaannnnnndddddd change "Bind to IP" so it says "Default"

your settings are making it way worse! i'm getting encoding overloaded even in the main menu of the game. video of that is just lagging like crazy.

 

[Harold]

Change output mode to simple, recording quality to indistinguishable, format to flv, encoder to either nvenc or software, low cpu use.

 

[OneNonlyNova]

Change output mode to simple, recording quality to indistinguishable, format to flv, encoder to either nvenc or software, low cpu use.

still getting encoding overloaded + quality is very bad + video lags

why would i lower cpu use anyways? my cpu is idling while ingame AND recording at ~20% | gpu ~50-60%

 

[Harold]

The normal software encoder is significantly heavier than the low cpu use one.

Post the session log from when you tried those settings.