Question / Help (Solved) New to OBS, got working, vids look like &*$#, need help w/settings

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artful dodger

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ok so it took me a while to get the monitor capture to work cuz i got an nvidia laptop, finally got it tho, however now that i'm capturing gameplay i am going batshit bonkers with this one, i've literally spent the last 4 hours trying to get my videos of ROME:TOTAL WAR not to look like Nintendo 64. I have come across millions of different setting options, i've tried the x264 and the Nvenc with nothing but garbage results...I have a nvidia g750j Asus republic of gamers laptop with a 870m Gforce GTX card...i would assume that the proper settings would give me great video, but like i said, right now it looks worse than the actual game graphics, way worse, and in this case that's just sad...again i'm about 4 hours in or so, starting to lose patience
 
Streaming? https://obsproject.com/estimator

Local recording only? Use a custom buffer and set it to 0. This flags OBS to unlock the bitrate and use as much as it needs. This WILL eat a ton of hard drive space, but will produce the best quality video, and can be re-compressed later with a multi-pass encoder to get the file size down without sacrificing quality.. Also ensure that your Base Resolution is set to match your actual resolution, with no downscale.
 
i feel like i've tried every combination there is at this point, i remember there was one setting out of the 40 or 50 i think i've tried so far that seemed to improve it a little bit, but i can't even remember what it was...i tried what you suggested without better results, these are my current settings:
Encoding: 'Nvidia NVENC'; Use CBR - disabled; quality 10; max bitrate 3500; custom buffer - 0;
Video: 1920x1080; no downscale; fps 30
Advanced: multithread optimization - high; NVENC preset - Automatic; encoding profile - high; use CFR - disabled

i'm jus tryin to record gameplay or possibly other videos, perhaps to be uploaded to youtube at a later time; not concerned with live streaming
 
Post a logfile from the Help menu. We'll be able to see what's happening on the back end, and offer better advice.
 
here's my latest attempt, log file is huge, made like 50 dif lil trial videos trying to get this right:
17:12:02: =====Stream Start: 2015-07-08, 17:12:02===============================================
17:12:02: Multithreaded optimizations: On
17:12:02: Base resolution: 1920x1080
17:12:02: Output resolution: 1920x1080
17:12:02: ------------------------------------------
17:12:02: Loading up D3D10 on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M (Adapter 1)...
17:12:02: ------------------------------------------
17:12:02: Audio Format: 48000 Hz
17:12:02: ------------------------------------------
17:12:02: Audio Channels: 2 Ch
17:12:02: Playback device {0.0.0.00000000}.{df9b7624-ba2b-42a5-8e61-9ca61a88ad30}
17:12:02: ------------------------------------------
17:12:02: Using desktop audio input: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
17:12:02: Global Audio time adjust: 0
17:12:02: ------------------------------------------
17:12:02: Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (Realtek High Definition Audio)
17:12:02: Mic time offset: 0
17:12:02: ------------------------------------------
17:12:02: Audio Encoding: AAC
17:12:02: bitrate: 128
17:12:02: Using graphics capture
17:12:02: Trying to hook process: RomeTW.exe
17:12:02: Scene buffering time set to 700
17:12:02: NVENC internal init finished successfully
17:12:02: NVENC supports 8 h264 presets
17:12:02: ------------------------------------------
17:12:02: Video Encoding: NVENC
17:12:02: fps: 30
17:12:02: width: 1920, height: 1080
17:12:02: preset: llhq
17:12:02: profile: high
17:12:02: level: autoselect
17:12:02: keyint: -1
17:12:02: CBR: no
17:12:02: CFR: yes
17:12:02: max bitrate: 8500
17:12:02: avg bitrate: 8500
17:12:02: buffer size: 0
17:12:02: quality: 10
17:12:02: ------------------------------------------
17:12:02: using memory capture
17:12:12: FlushBufferedVideo: Flushing 20 packets over 634 ms
17:12:13: Total frames encoded: 283, total frames duplicated: 0 (0.00%)
17:12:13: Total frames rendered: 289, number of late frames: 1 (0.35%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)
17:12:13: Encoder closed
17:12:13: NVENC deinitialized
17:12:13:
17:12:13: Profiler time results:
17:12:13:
17:12:13: ==============================================================
17:12:13: video thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 1.816 ms] [children: 11.3%] [unaccounted: 88.7%]
17:12:13: | scene->Preprocess - [0.11%] [avg time: 0.002 ms]
17:12:13: | GPU download and conversion - [11.2%] [avg time: 0.203 ms] [children: 10.6%] [unaccounted: 0.551%]
17:12:13: | | flush - [9.42%] [avg time: 0.171 ms]
17:12:13: | | CopyResource - [0.496%] [avg time: 0.009 ms]
17:12:13: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [0.716%] [avg time: 0.013 ms]
17:12:13: Convert444Threads - [100%] [avg time: 2.328 ms] [children: 99.6%] [unaccounted: 0.43%]
17:12:13: | Convert444toNV12 - [99.6%] [avg time: 2.318 ms]
17:12:13: encoder thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 4.365 ms] [children: 0.619%] [unaccounted: 99.4%]
17:12:13: | sending stuff out - [0.619%] [avg time: 0.027 ms]
17:12:13: ==============================================================
17:12:13:
17:12:13:
17:12:13: Profiler CPU results:
17:12:13:
17:12:13: ==============================================================
17:12:13: video thread frame - [cpu time: avg 1.621 ms, total 468.75 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:12:13: | scene->Preprocess - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:12:13: | GPU download and conversion - [cpu time: avg 0.27 ms, total 78.125 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:12:13: | | flush - [cpu time: avg 0.216 ms, total 62.5 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:12:13: | | CopyResource - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:12:13: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [cpu time: avg 0.059 ms, total 15.625 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:12:13: Convert444Threads - [cpu time: avg 2.13 ms, total 1125 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
17:12:13: | Convert444toNV12 - [cpu time: avg 2.101 ms, total 1109.38 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
17:12:13: encoder thread frame - [cpu time: avg 0.059 ms, total 15.625 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:12:13: | sending stuff out - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:12:13: ==============================================================
17:12:13:
17:12:13: =====Stream End: 2015-07-08, 17:12:13=================================================
 
This is not a complete logfile. Just use the 'upload' function and paste the link it gives you here. We do need the complete file's extra information to see what is happening on the back end. Also, make sure to test each for 5-10 minutes (this one was only a few seconds long) to allow the recording to normalize.
 
Then you didn't follow the instructions, because the quality on videos with those settings will be very good.
 
wow just wow...i figured out what the problem was...had nothing to do with any of this, was because my .flv player is wonky, when i switch to .wmv everything is beautiful... wtf xD..
 
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