Struggling with weird artifacting/tearing/distortions in recordings - only recently

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nerv

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Hi everyone,

I've just recently been struggling with this bizarre colour distortion in my OBS recordings and replay buffers (see reference: https://youtu.be/CiKuz8sgpWA ). I have tried the following fixes:

  1. Colour range was set to full (which hadn't caused any issues before) -> set back to limited
  2. Set OBS to high priority
  3. NV12
  4. Changed from NVENC HEVC to NVENC .264 encoder (should I consider software 264 to confirm it is not a GPU issue?)
  5. Changed CQP settings from 10 -> 16
  6. Tuning preset from fastest -> Good quality
  7. Tried using 264 software encoding to see if the GPU was the issue? (still got the artifacts/distortion)
  8. Rolled back to previous version of OBS (30.2.3 I believe, now rolled back again to 30.1)
  9. Ran OBS as admin, disabled optimizations
  10. Rolled back NVIDIA graphics drivers to 566.36 after running DDU (have not tested this yet)
  11. Ensured I am using Game Capture only, no other scenes or sources (other than audio output)
  12. Tried recording to my local drive instead of my external SSD
  13. Considering reverting to 60 fps instead of 120 (although this has never been an issue before), tried 1080p instead of 1440p but didn't change anything either
  14. Have considered that my GPU (4070) is dying -> have been doing a lot of AI upscales and frame interpolations lately through Topaz (maybe 20-30 in total over 2 weeks, which seems super low), and I know GPUs can do weird things when they're starting to go. However, it is ONLY my OBS recordings that are weird like this. The game itself looks totally fine, and it never happens in any other cases, which makes me think it is not a GPU issue.
  15. Also tried disabling/enabling hardware acceleration. Neither fixed it.
Is there anything I'm missing or should also consider? Thank you!

https://obsproject.com/logs/IHz53MvOxQ7pEmYw
 
PaiSand

PaiSand

Active Member
A log file from the moment this issue was present is needed. The log file you posted has no output session in it.
 
PaiSand

PaiSand

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Please review and follow directions and recommendations on the analyzer.

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
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Consider reduce to 60 fps
Or change the preset to p4 / p3 instead of p1
 
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