Question / Help Recording locally with OBS

[3!K3]

Hey there OBS community,
I have used a variety of programs to record gameplay locally and since OBS is mainly focused on streamers, I would like to know if you would even recommend OBS for local recordings.

I mostly record CS:GO footage and my fps drop drasticly (from over 220 to <100), while recording 1080p30fps using quicksync or x264.

Many programs - like the capture program that Afterburner uses - do not compress the videos at all while recording, which results in high load for the HDD/SSD but lowers the CPU load by quite a bit.
Others - like OBS - encode while recording, to generate low enough bitrates to stream.

Is there anything in between?
Like a x264 setting that does not compress as much and uses less CPU power?
I do not care, if my videos get double the size they do now, but the 10+ times they take completly without encoding is far too much for my hdd's writespeed to handle.

 

[3!K3]

Ok lets split this one up:
With my current hardware, is there any way to record CSGO locally without dropping frames to <100 every few seconds?

and

Would you recommend using OBS for local recordings, if so which settings would you use?

 

[Osiris]

Read this: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/

 

[3!K3]

Thanks for that one, I don't know why I didn't find that.
I wonder why he only uses 1000 bitrate, but I'll try before i start to complain ;)

 

[Osiris]

Setting buffer size to 0 is key in the guide.

 

[3!K3]

I know. I didn't know that you could turn VBV off by just setting it to 0 :D
Works like a charm.

 

[koala]

You have a Intel CPU, you can probably use Quicksync as encoder instead of x264. This reduces the CPU usage of OBS to 5-10%. For local recording only, ramp up the bitrate for decent quality (30000 or above) or play with the advanced Quicksync settings and use a quality-based encoding instead of CBR.