Question / Help [SORTA SOLVED] - I can’t seem to get 60fps recordings with an RTX 2080

Narcogen

Active Member
No output session in log. Open OBS, start recording or streaming, observe your issue, stop the output session, then upload the current log before quitting OBS.
 

Narcogen

Active Member
Not seeing any issues in that log. No rendering or encoding lag in the log.

15:20:46.345: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
15:20:46.345: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Writing file 'C:/Users/danie/OneDrive/Desktop/New Obs Recordings/2019-12-30 15-20-46.mkv'...
15:20:48.013: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook fullscreen process: javaw.exe
15:20:48.023: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] shared texture capture successful
15:21:33.321: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] gl shared texture capture successful
15:21:33.323: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] shared texture capture successful
15:21:36.132: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'C:/Users/danie/OneDrive/Desktop/New Obs Recordings/2019-12-30 15-20-46.mkv' stopped
15:21:36.132: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
15:21:36.132: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 2974
15:21:36.132: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 2987
15:21:36.132: ==== Recording Stop ================================================


15:20:40.854: Game Mode: Off

You may wish to turn that on if OBS operation is affecting your other apps' framerate. This feature was broken in earlier versions of Windows but is now fixed.
 

Sunset

New Member
Could this be the problem?
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Narcogen

Active Member
I don't believe that affects your framerate, no. Running as admin is required to game capture applications that are also running as admin.
 

Sukiyucky

Member
Your log shows that you were trying to game capture Internet Explorer fullscreen:

15:09:06.896: Switched to scene 'Games'
15:09:06.896: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook fullscreen process: explorer.exe
15:09:06.896: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] cannot capture explorer.exe due to being blacklisted

OBS does not allow some programs to be captured in game capture mode including:
  • Chrome
  • Internet Explorer
  • Firefox
  • Skype
  • Discord
  • UPlay
  • Steam
  • Task Manager
This is why you are getting a black screen in preview and the error message in the log.

You have to use display capture instead.
 

Sukiyucky

Member
I read the second log. My response was from looking at it and seeing this:

15:20:41.972: Switched to scene 'Games'
15:20:41.972: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook fullscreen process: explorer.exe
15:20:41.972: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] cannot capture explorer.exe due to being blacklisted
 

Sunset

New Member
That’s weird because that’s not what it should be... on my end it’s javaw.exe, which is what it’s supposed to be
 

Sukiyucky

Member
Another thing you should consider changing.

You are trying to do 1440p recordings at 60FPS:

15:20:41.405: video settings reset:
15:20:41.405: base resolution: 2560x1440
15:20:41.405: output resolution: 2560x1440

15:20:41.405: downscale filter: Lanczos
15:20:41.405: fps: 60/1
15:20:41.405: format: NV12
15:20:41.405: YUV mode: 709/Partial


Your bitrate is 40000.

15:20:46.094: [NVENC encoder: 'recording_h264'] settings:
15:20:46.094: rate_control: CBR
15:20:46.094: bitrate: 40000
15:20:46.094: cqp: 0
15:20:46.094: keyint: 120
15:20:46.094: preset: hq
15:20:46.094: profile: high
15:20:46.094: width: 2560
15:20:46.094: height: 1440
15:20:46.094: 2-pass: true
15:20:46.094: b-frames: 2

Look at YouTube recommendations for SDR at 1440p for 60FPS as a guide:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

They only want up to 24000 bitrate for 1440p@60FPS, so 40000 is too big. Change it to 24000 to reduce CPU/GPU usage and the amount of upload bandwidth if you plan on delivering to YouTube.

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Sunset

New Member
I could but i have always heard to set the bitrate higher when recording and render it at 24mbps after edits.
 

Sukiyucky

Member
Everybody's response so far is based on looking at your log and giving you advice on what problems they see. Your log shows nothing in regards to encoding or rendering lag to prevent you from your 1440p@60FPS setting.

You got a Ryzen 3700X and RTX 2080 and there should be no reason why you can't record at 60FPS at 1080p.

What exactly does "I can't get 60FPS video" mean? Be more explicit. What exact steps are you doing to determine you are getting less than 60FPS? The logs don't say you aren't.
 

Narcogen

Active Member
I could but i have always heard to set the bitrate higher when recording and render it at 24mbps after edits.

You should not be directly concerned with bitrate when recording locally and then post-processing. You should be concerned with quality, which is what CQP rate control does. Setting a bitrate, for any given rate, means bits wasted when the encoder doesn't need them, and no quality higher than the selected bitrate when the encoder needs more.

CQP sets a constant quality level, and uses more or less bits when necessary to keep that quality level.
 

Sunset

New Member
I recorded at 144fps (the refresh rate of my monitor) and I fixed it. But what should I set my CQ level to?
 

Narcogen

Active Member
Start with 15 and adjust if needed. Lower is higher quality, larger files. Higher is lower quality, smaller files.
 
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