Question / Help Recording is blurry when playing online games.

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Daleberto

New Member
Hey guys I was hoping I might be able to get some help with this. I've been trying to record vids to start a youtube channel and it is not going well. I have tried every recording software that I possibly can. Everything looks great if I play an offline game but online has pixelation especially when there is a lot happening. I have looked up several tutorials on settings and nothing works. My system specs are,

Gtx 970
ryzen 3 1200 4 core 3.1 ghz
8 GB DDR4 RAM
ASROCK AB350 PRO4 Motherboard

My Obs settings are
Format MP4
Encoder Nvenc
Rate control CBR
Bitrate 50,000
preset High quality
profile High

Video
Base Res 1920x1080
Output Res 1920x1080
Downscale filter Lanczos 32 samples
Common FPS value 60FPS
YUV color space 709
YUV color range Full

Anything I didnt include is default.
I have been told its because I use a cell phone hotspot but I even went to a friends place and hooked up to wired and its still the same.
I have tried taking my bitrate down by 5k everytime I record to no avail. I don't have a log to post cause right now my PC is still at my friends place.
 
koala

koala

Active Member
For recording: instead of CBR/50000 use rate control CQP and a CQP value of 15-20 (lower value is better quality). Network speed is irrelevant for recording, since you don't send anything over the network but save the video locally on your HD.
For streaming, things are different of course, but you said you want to record only.
 
koala

koala

Active Member
CQP is a rate control type for video encoding. Rate control determines how much detail has to be removed to match the constraints the user set. The rate control CBR removes as much detail that a given bitrate is not exceeded. This is required for streaming, but not for local recording. The exact amount of removed detail varies, since for high motion more detail has to be removed, and for low motion less detail has to be removed.
The rate control CQP doesn't care about bitrate. It just removes a constant amount of detail, regardless of motion. It shows high motion with as much quality as low motion. If you give 0 as CQP value, no detail is removed, and if you give 50, about everything is removed. Sane values and good balance of file size/detail is with a CQP value of 15-25.

Since streaming cannot work with variable bitrate such as CQP, you must use CBR for streaming. But for good and guaranteed quality for local recordings you should use CQP. If you later want to upload such a video to Youtube, you can record to CQP nonetheless, because Youtube always recodes uploaded video to CBR. So the original rate control doesn't matter.
 
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Daleberto

New Member
I tried it on my laptop and even though I had to go to the lowest quality in game it looked a lot better after I got done recording. There was still some grain and pixelation but I think thats because this PC only goes to 1366x768 in resolution.
 
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Daleberto

New Member
I finally got to try it on my desktop it looks better but still looks a bit off to me. If I could I would put the recordings in to show you the difference.
 
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