Question / Help Terrible Quality!

Vlover

New Member
My videos are all turning out horribly. I tried to reinstall it in hopes of it being different, and it is different meaning worse. It's not at all smooth, it just looks like a bunch of pictures. On my old computer and earlier this year when I got this computer, the quality was good and smooth. I don't know what happened, I do not remember changing the settings at all during that time just that the quality is now different.
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log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/WGg40mN4TcCNSFcU
 

Narcogen

Active Member
17:40:03.935: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 17134 (revision: 765; 64-bit)

Windows is out of date and Game Mode is on by default and cannot be turned off without registry editing. Read the link at the bottom for info on updating/turning off Game Mode, which can in some cases degrade OBS performance.

17:47:05.739: adding 232 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 301 milliseconds (source: Mic/Aux)
17:47:29.619: adding 232 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 534 milliseconds (source: Skrivbordsljud)


Audio buffering going this high is generally indicative of system overload.

17:52:09.999: Output 'simple_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 790 (19.4%)

GPU overload. Possibly caused by Game Mode mentioned above, which is designed to give your game maximum GPU resources, starving any other program trying to use the GPU (like OBS).

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

17:52:10.004: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 3518/4059 (86.7%)

Encoder (CPU, in your case) overload.

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

After turning off Game Mode, I'd suggest capping in-game framerate and/or reducing canvas resolution to 1280x720 instead of 1920x1080 with scaling, if needed.
 
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