Question / Help Recordings are Stuttering and Laggy. HELP!!

[Stanfella]

Ok. I’m trying to record some Forza Horizon 4 on my pc with the NVENC encoder. My recording settings are



Type: Standard

Recording Format: MP4

Audio Tracks: 3

Encoder: NVENC H.264



Rate Control: CBR

Bitrate: 20000

Keyframe Interval: 0

Preset: High Quality

Profile: high

Level: auto

Two Pass Encoding is ON

GPU: 0

B-frames: 2



My video Canvas resolution is 1920x1080 and so is the Scaled resolution. The downscale filter is Bilinear because I thought to myself, “well I’m not downscaling anything so I don’t mind the “loss” in quality.” And the Common FPS value is 60.



My PC is as far as I know quite capable of running games at ultra/max settings at 1080p 60fps. My specs are:



CPU: Intel i7 7700k @ 4.2GHz

GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X 8GB

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2133MHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z270X-Gaming K5

HDD: 1x 160GB hard drive pulled from an old pc (nothing is held on this apart from some videos) 1x 3TB Western Digital Blue 7200RPM And 1x Samsung 850 Evo 250GB



I have also done previous recordings on games and it has turned out fine. The thing is, the recordings are stuttering, lagging and all around looking choppy. I have looked around YouTube, Forums and everywhere possible to try and find some help. I even joined the OBS discord but some guy said “uh idk how to use NVENC. Sorry” and that’s all I got? Why is that kid even in the support group of he has no idea what the fuck he’s on about.

Here is the link to my last log: https://obsproject.com/logs/Ao-Q8DQFXQNz5v5i

Sorry, I’m just fed up with this not working and I would love to see if someone can PLEASE help me out!

 

[carlmmii]

Turn off Game Bar, Game DVR, and Background Recording. All of this interferes with OBS's ability to have smooth capture.

Also, to prevent future headache in case things go wrong, change your recording format to either .mkv or .flv. If something happens while recording to .mp4, you will end up with an unrecoverable file. If you absolutely need to use .mp4 as a container for further editing, you can use the remux tool within OBS afterward.

There are multiple recording attempts in that log file. The first few show no lost frames, but is this without the game running? The last few attempts do show the lost frames, and they're primarily due to rendering lag, which is usually a result of the GPU being fully loaded by the game without enough resources left for OBS to maintain frame capture timings... and unfortunately, it's FH4, so no game capture ability.

The best you can do is attempt to limit your framerate and lower your graphics settings so that your GPU doesn't reach 100% load. This will ensure OBS has the resources available to capture the frames within the necessary frame timing and eliminate the stutter you're seeing in the recordings.

Also, just to verify... what are you using to play back your recordings?