Question / Help Recordings look grainy and choppy?? How to fix?

[Carson Daley]

Been trying to get my recording setup in line for the past two days and I cant find a setting that will do the job. Every setting I Try looks like garbage and stutters when I play the recording back. I would like to be able to just record any game that I am playing and not have to worry about it being to choppy to watch back or to have to change settings per game. Any help??

Here is my OBS log for the recording I just did, https://hastebin.com/jeponifazo. And then below that are my settings for recording. And at the time of the recording that log goes to I was recording at 75000 bitrate.

 

[Narcogen]

Don't use CBR with NVENC, it's a waste of space. Use CQP and set a quality level appropriate for your hardware and your quality requirements. 0 would basically be lossless, 14 or so would be nearly indistinguishable, and 23 or so would be... pretty good. Do some tests, see what looks good and runs well for your rig.

You're also using an old version of OBS-- the latest is 22.0.3, you have 21.0.1. Download and install manually, I believe the auto-updater in that version was broken.

Lastly, don't put game and video captures in the same scene; use one or the other, and make a different scene collection for captures from another method. Having multiple capture methods in the same scene negatively impacts performance.

 

[Carson Daley]

Don't use CBR with NVENC, it's a waste of space. Use CQP and set a quality level appropriate for your hardware and your quality requirements. 0 would basically be lossless, 14 or so would be nearly indistinguishable, and 23 or so would be... pretty good. Do some tests, see what looks good and runs well for your rig.

You're also using an old version of OBS-- the latest is 22.0.3, you have 21.0.1. Download and install manually, I believe the auto-updater in that version was broken.

Lastly, don't put game and video captures in the same scene; use one or the other, and make a different scene collection for captures from another method. Having multiple capture methods in the same scene negatively impacts performance.

Thank you for the response I will defintely give that a shot on reinstalling and trying CQp, but as for the video capture device which is my webcam, I have a scene for my overlay which is where the webcam is in, then i add that scene to my main scene which has my game capture in it. Or did you mean game capture and display capture?

 

[Narcogen]

Yes, Game and Display. You shouldn't have both in the same scene.