Question / Help Severe frame dropping in recordings, almost completely freezes

archizackture

archizackture

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I've tried a multitude of different settings in OBS based on different guides I have found online, but no matter what I try, I have not been able to capture a video that is even remotely usable. My captures drop almost every frame to the point that the videos are barely a photo slideshow.

My computer isn't great but I don't think it's bad by any means. Dual-core processor with 16 GB RAM. I only need to capture 30 FPS (and I have the games I'm capturing set to 30 FPS as well), and I don't plan to be streaming, only recording. If I can even do that.

In the logs you'll see that I tried several different types of settings, from encoding settings to changing the capture resolution, but each time, it drops 80%-98% of the frames due to encoding lag

Logs: https://obsproject.com/logs/iTJcTZDumoJmkmKo

Thanks
 
Try switching the encoder to QSV if available. Actually, you're getting rendering delay as well, so your GPU is already overloaded... unlike NVENC, the Intel GPUs use rendering cores for QSV encoding, which will only stress it further.

That processor is extremely weak, and should not carry the i7 name. The U-variant is the ultra-low-power mobile model, and sacrifices almost all performance in the name of power savings.

Sorry to say, that hardware isn't sufficient to encode real-time video. You can try downscaling to 480p or 240p with x264 Ultrafast to see if it might have a chance, but as the native res is 4K, that's going to probably be unacceptable.
 
FerretBomb said:
Try switching the encoder to QSV if available. Actually, you're getting rendering delay as well, so your GPU is already overloaded... unlike NVENC, the Intel GPUs use rendering cores for QSV encoding, which will only stress it further.

That processor is extremely weak, and should not carry the i7 name. The U-variant is the ultra-low-power mobile model, and sacrifices almost all performance in the name of power savings.

Sorry to say, that hardware isn't sufficient to encode real-time video. You can try downscaling to 480p or 240p with x264 Ultrafast to see if it might have a chance, but as the native res is 4K, that's going to probably be unacceptable.
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Okay, thanks for the info.
480p resolution is indeed unacceptable for my purposes, so basically what I'm getting out of this is that my computer is unusable for any decent game recording. Disappointing but I guess I'll have to shelf my idea of publishing gaming content on the internet until a better computer is a possibility for me
 
At the very least, try these things
- update windows (you're a year out of date and missing key features that will help rendering lag)
- continue to run OBS as administrator (this will help with rendering lag on updated windows)
- reduce your canvas resolution to 1920x1080 (your iGPU cannot handle 4k compositing)
- lower your display resolution to 1920x1080
- use QuickSync as others have mentioned

Do those things, and post a log file to see where your system stands.
 
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