Redrick Letov
New Member
Hi there,
I'm trying to optimize my local recordings to look as good as possible. I've followed the local recording guide on here, and although my game runs fairly smooth with OBS, the output video is a bit choppy and laggy. I started out with a CFR of 18 and worked my way to 20, messing around with x264 CPU presents along the way, eventually lowering it to Ultrafast in my last recording. I'm pretty sure each step down in quality helped the video out. What do you recommend first when testing: Lowering the CFR or the x264 CPU present?
I take it messing around with the buffer size and max bit rate won't help me at all for making local recordings. Is that right? If it would, what settings should I use, and how should I change the CFR and x264 presents accordingly?
Between my game and OBS, I'd like to compromise my settings for them somewhere so I can have the best looking recording possible with my machine. Any help with this would be great. Oh, and I'm recording at a resolution of 1600x900, that of my monitor.
From what I can gather on the forum, it might be my older CPU that's causing this issue. In that case, I'd take video quality over higher game settings. I read on here that a CFR of 18 is on the fringe of near-lossless/lossy-looking, so maybe I should stick with that, lower my game settings and see what happens? What should be done with the x264 CPU present?
Also, I'm recording to the same HDD that's running the game and OBS. I was reading that recording to another drive or a USB 3.0 external drive/(or maybe even a memory stick?) would help take the pressure off the recording. Is this true? Unfortunately I only have a USB 2.0 external drive, so I heard it might be questionable if that would help ease any strain, and that it might bottleneck and cause its own problems depending on quality settings and transfer speed. When I record with that, the output video files end up being corrupt and won't play. Any suggestions on the whole HDD thing and my corruption issue?
Also, I'm playing the Autumn Aurora 2 mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl on high settings, in case you were curious.
Any suggestions would be great,
Thank you!
P.s.
Does anyone know of any really good guides out there that tell you how to optimize a game's settings and which settings to lower first for best results? Sure I could google that question, but I'd like to know from a group of people like those on OBS forums who've maybe done a lot of research. God, I sound lazy :/
I'm trying to optimize my local recordings to look as good as possible. I've followed the local recording guide on here, and although my game runs fairly smooth with OBS, the output video is a bit choppy and laggy. I started out with a CFR of 18 and worked my way to 20, messing around with x264 CPU presents along the way, eventually lowering it to Ultrafast in my last recording. I'm pretty sure each step down in quality helped the video out. What do you recommend first when testing: Lowering the CFR or the x264 CPU present?
I take it messing around with the buffer size and max bit rate won't help me at all for making local recordings. Is that right? If it would, what settings should I use, and how should I change the CFR and x264 presents accordingly?
Between my game and OBS, I'd like to compromise my settings for them somewhere so I can have the best looking recording possible with my machine. Any help with this would be great. Oh, and I'm recording at a resolution of 1600x900, that of my monitor.
From what I can gather on the forum, it might be my older CPU that's causing this issue. In that case, I'd take video quality over higher game settings. I read on here that a CFR of 18 is on the fringe of near-lossless/lossy-looking, so maybe I should stick with that, lower my game settings and see what happens? What should be done with the x264 CPU present?
Also, I'm recording to the same HDD that's running the game and OBS. I was reading that recording to another drive or a USB 3.0 external drive/(or maybe even a memory stick?) would help take the pressure off the recording. Is this true? Unfortunately I only have a USB 2.0 external drive, so I heard it might be questionable if that would help ease any strain, and that it might bottleneck and cause its own problems depending on quality settings and transfer speed. When I record with that, the output video files end up being corrupt and won't play. Any suggestions on the whole HDD thing and my corruption issue?
Also, I'm playing the Autumn Aurora 2 mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl on high settings, in case you were curious.
Any suggestions would be great,
Thank you!
P.s.
Does anyone know of any really good guides out there that tell you how to optimize a game's settings and which settings to lower first for best results? Sure I could google that question, but I'd like to know from a group of people like those on OBS forums who've maybe done a lot of research. God, I sound lazy :/
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