Question / Help Sudden choppiness from recording with OBS Studio

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Meoli

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Hello! This has been a more recent issue for me (Past 3-4ish Weeks or so, I used to have no issues at all) but whenever I attempt to record a game (Mainly FFXIV) the end product comes out choppy.

I'll provide both screenshots of my settings and the log file, if anyone could help at all I'd appreciate it so very much!

Settings: http://i.imgur.com/szmSYoa.png

http://i.imgur.com/xGcoofo.png

http://i.imgur.com/cUmT2VV.png

http://i.imgur.com/JCgjSqL.png

Log File: https://gist.github.com/c51e5edc3102abff493e5c9067616fd4

Edit: Incase it matters at all. My speedtest: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/6444808969

Edit 2: PC Specs:
Gpu: GTX 970
Cpu: i5-4690K

Thank you so much for any and all help!
 
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SumDim

Member
You are setting your bitrate way too high. Its at 40,000Kbps = 40Mbps
Way over the 13Mbps upload you have.

Set it lower. To like 10,000.
 
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Meoli

New Member
Hello! Thank you for your reply!

I just lowered the bitrate to 10,000 but the exact same problem persists. So I tried lowering it to 5,000 with no improvement whatsoever in the choppiness.

This is honestly such a weird issue because I used to have completely smooth recordings with 40k bitrate and nothing has changed (Other than updating OBS, but I doubt that's the issue) since this choppiness started.

It's extra weird but something like Shadowplay records completely smooth (There's no improvement to OBS whether I disable or enable Shadowplay so that's not the issue either). I much prefer using OBS to record so I would very, very much like to figure this out.
 
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Teek

New Member
I've encountered the same problem recently, recording footage from my Nintendo Switch through Elgato.

May 6 - Recorded some Zelda footage and things were fine.

May 27 - Recorded the ARMS test rounds and that worked fine as well, at least on 30FPS.

July 9 - Went back to recording Zelda. Massive frame drops all over the place.

I've got two days worth of basically unusable footage.

OBS seems to be working fine when recording other things on my PC, so I don't know what's going on with it.
 
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goldenh

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check CPU/GPU utilization. Try old games you played that worked previously. Not all games will work as well.
your recording bitrate usually doesn't have anything to do with it, unless you are playing the game from the same HDD you are recording to (usually if you only have one). Then it's possible that the game could be using the HDD enough that it. Lower in game resolution. Set frame rate cap in obs game capture.

Could be other stuff, I dunno!
 
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Meoli

New Member
Going over some things for clarification!

I have only ever mainly recorded FFXIV with OBS since December 2016. I've never had this issue until some point in June.

I checked with GPU-Z to see if I was using 100% of my GPU while ingame and it seems to only use 81%-92% due to the fact that I have the framerate capped. Checking CPU and Memory through Task Manager, those are both around 60% and shouldn't be the issue either.

I've tried reinstalling OBS, fiddling with the settings, lowering bitrate and have tried recording directly onto the SSD instead of the HDD.

None of these things fixed the problem nor made it any better. =(
 
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