Question / Help Stuttering/Freezing Issue with OBS recordings

Aysymmetrical

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Hello! I apologize in advance as this is the first time I've posted a thread on this page and all the suggestions I've found seem to rely on the Log File, so I'm creating this thread in the hopes someone knows how to fix it.

I've had OBS Studio for almost a year, keeping it up to date and using it a few times a month maybe when I decide I would like to record something. OBS worked fine, aside from the recording having black screen glitches throughout the recording. Cutting these parts out of the recording was simple, so that's how I avoided that problem. I went a few months without launching the program and when I got back to it I updated it, ran it and proceeded to record footage using Game Capture. Once I went to edit the recording, I found that it was almost entirely unusable; the video recording would completely freeze or go black while the audio proceeded unhindered. This is a very frustrating issue due to the fact that I used OBS in the past with almost no issue, but now everything I use it with is worthless. I've included the log file, but no settings I've changed so far have done anything to improve the situation.

Any games I've recorded have ran fine both with and without running OBS, I was getting acceptable frames in the program and in the recording, but now the recordings are useless no matter what performance I have whist recording.
 

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Narcogen

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16:57:06.379: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 4178 (23.5%)
19:29:57.782: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 23530 (20.4%)
21:27:52.874: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 67238 (31.7%)


Rendering lag caused by GPU overload.

https://obsproject.com/wiki/GPU-overload-issues

16:57:06.382: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 1743/17739 (9.8%)
19:29:57.785: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 28742/115614 (24.9%)
21:27:52.876: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 110440/211795 (52.1%)


Skipped frames due to encoder overload. In your case, this is also your Intel GPU as you're using QSV.

17:18:35.582: adding 46 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 162 milliseconds (source: Desktop Audio)

Audio buffering increasing during a session is also indicative of CPU overload.

https://obsproject.com/wiki/General-Performance-And-Encoding-Issues

16:39:05.640: Game DVR: On

You might want to turn that off, as it won't be helping your situation, but I'm not sure doing that alone will resolve the above.

You have an i5 and an intel integrated GPU. You're overloading it. Reduce frame size, frame rate, in-game quality options.

If the same version of OBS and the same version of Windows and the same game produced acceptable results before, then you should look to see if there's anything else that is now running that is consuming resources; but the above lags are significant, indicating that at least currently, the machine is not close to being able to conform to the settings you've chosen.
 
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