Question / Help Recording with Elgato HD60 S Frame skipping?

[Typlo8]

Hello! I am trying to record Xbox One footage with my Elgato HD60 S using OBS Studio. I am trying to record Forza 7 gameplay at 1080p and 60fps. Though while recording I noticed there the video isn't smooth and there is something off, I think its skipping frames? I uploaded a video of the recording at : https://youtu.be/H2t8iE9GzK4

Recording took around 50-55% CPU usage and I am using the DirectShow drivers because the Game Capture HD drivers were worse and had more stuttering/frame skipping.

I will show the specs of my Laptop and my OBS video settings below, is there a way for me to record at smooth 60fps? I would appreciate some help. Thanks.

Specs:

OBS settings:

 

[Boildown]

13:43:00.595: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 16/4255 (0.4%)

So usually people can't tell when less than 1% of the frames are skipped, and this is only 0.4%. You can tell on the playback that frames are being skipped? Does it look bad on other devices and other players?

13:41:49.148: [x264 encoder: 'simple_h264_recording'] preset: veryfast

Try changing the Preset to SuperFast. That should free up some CPU so that even fewer frames are skipped.

 

[Typlo8]

So usually people can't tell when less than 1% of the frames are skipped, and this is only 0.4%. You can tell on the playback that frames are being skipped? Does it look bad on other devices and other players?

Yes, I uploaded a one minute recording in hope someone can help me identify what that stutter is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2t8iE9GzK4 especially past second 0:50 to the end the video seems to stutter or freeze for a split second then continue. Which is so weird since like you said its only 0.4% skipped frames and in the recording it looks much worse than that. Also yes, I tried it on different players and playing the YT video on other devices, it seems to be the same issue.

Try changing the Preset to SuperFast. That should free up some CPU so that even fewer frames are skipped.

Okay! I will try doing that and get back to you, my output mode is on simple right now so when I change to advanced should I keep everything as it is? Sorry, I dont understand most of the settings on there. I will try it without changing anything other than CPU preset at first and see if I get results hopefully. Thank you!