Subpar video quality

Acher

Acher

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Hello.

This is my first time using OBS, tried to follow all the advices and tutorials I've seen but the result is not up to par.
I have an i5 with a GeForce 1030 which I know on itself is already not too hot but I've read on these forums that it's enough for recording albeit it could be insufficient for streaming (which I don't intend to do).

I attach a file with 3 pictures. 2 showing my settings and the third the result they landed (in game the quality is much better, it's not like I had the lowest settings or anything).

Is this a matter of hardware? Like, with what I have is this as far as I'm gonna get? If so... Settings don't matter as long as my hardware is not up to the task? Because I didn't notice any lag while recording.

Thanks in advance for your time.
 

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It's difficult to judge the quality of a recording by one extracted picture. This picture will be vastly different if it is taken from a scene with high motion in comparison to a scene of low motion.
The settings are pretty standard and you're using recommended values, so yes, this is what you can expect from live video recording on your hardware.
I guess your video is choppy and laggy, because the encoder is overloaded, and that's the real culprit of your quality observation, but since you didn't post a logfile, this will stay a guess.
 
Thanks for your answer!

The video is not choppy or laggy, that's the thing. The only options I could've turned up a little more would've been the filter and recording quality but I don't have enough room for 7gb/min of video. Could it be the codec though? My card doesn't have NVENC which I've seen recommended in the tutorials.
The video would be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIaLU-p_D_k&t=6011s

Sorry for not posting the log file, I thought settings would be where the problem was at. Here it is:

I really appreciate your time, thanks again.
 
I got the quality to go up! It was a matter of increasing the kbs. I got it at 8000 I think and, according to what I've been reading, less than 10k is terrible for recording.
But now, the problem is with choppy videos (and the game is choppy too when recording, while it works fine without it). I guess an i5 is not enough to record games like Just Cause 3.

Since there are so many old gameplay videos I assumed that it didn't require too much of a computer.
 
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