Question / Help Tried troubleshooting, need help with Encoding Overload...

Hey, Boil.

Sorry, I did, but I sent that reply from work. I'm home now and captured the first tab:
http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/18/01/30/sjb.png

Looking at the receipt from buying the whole rig, the motherboard reads as:
Asus Comp ROG Z270 Maxihro 1151

The box is in the garage, but I believe it's this: https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-MAXIMUS-IX-HERO/

I am reading off the shorthand receipt, so I'm googling to verify, but this looks to be the list below.

Monitors: ASUS 24'' LED MG248Q (2 of them)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2
Liquid cooler: Corsair hydro series h100i v2
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8GB GDDR5X 256bit memory
Drive: Samsung 250GB 960 EVO NVME M.2
Ram: Gskill 32GB 2x16 D4 3400 Triden
(Well... hold on. My receipt shows 32GB but I only have 16 installed... Hm, don't quite recall if I was advised to just put in 16 or not or whether I have 2 sticks lying around somewhere... damn)

Would an extra 16GB of ram do me any favors here?
 
Your motherboard would be a Maximus Hero, if that is on the receipt. It is truly an excellent grade motherboard going by reviews.

For the extra 16GB RAM, you likely won't see any difference at all when gaming/recording/streaming. No harm in trying though if you want to throw it in.
32GB is more than plenty of RAM for your setup, you likely won't use anywhere near that amount unless you are doing heavy workloads like AutoCAD, server grade workloads, etc.

About your RAM:
In Windows settings ---> System ---> About does it display as 16GB usable (32GB installed) or something similar?
If it does, you may have a defective stick of RAM.
To test for a defective stick of RAM, take the stick of RAM out of the secondary slot and turn on the PC to see if it posts to BIOS with the primary RAM stick, if it does then it works. Shutdown then remove that stick and test the other one.

If it is indeed a defective stick or RAM, it doesn't bear any meaning on the issues you are having with OBS performance, Windows will happily work off single channel though dual channel is better. Just means you have to go through the hassle of the RMA process.
Dependent upon the time that has lapsed between purchasing the RAM and now, you may have to go the route of returning to the Manufacturer themselves instead of where you purchased.
To RMA, you will only need to take both sticks of RAM and proof of purchase receipt back to the store you bought the kit from. There they should readily provide you with a new kit of the same RAM.
If that time has lapsed to RMA at store of purchase, then I say purchase another kit if you can get a good deal (RAM is damned expensive at present, will likely be until 2019) then send the kit off for RMA once you know your replacement RAM works as intended. Your store of purchase should be able to assist you with that or you could contact them directly online at the RAM manufacturer website.
 
So my specs check out? As in, on paper, the numbers show I should be able to game on high/ultra settings and be able to stream/record without these issues?
 
Wow... What would you do then, at this point, if you were in my shoes?

At the moment, at work, I am asking friends if they know any legit PC experts who can come to my house and do some in-person troubleshooting for pay. I am desperate, and afraid to go back to MicroCenter, What if they caused an issue in the first place?
 
Like I said, I would make sure my Nvidia drivers were at the latest revision, V-Sync was On at 60Hz, nothing like MSI Afterburner is running, and the OBS scene is a blank slate with just the game and nothing else. And then I'd try the previous OBS Studio version, then OBS Classic. Even if not as a permanent solution, whether it works or not would be useful for troubleshooting.
 
Like Boildown said, I would also go for an installation of the latest graphics drivers, make sure everything else on the system is up to date as well in regards to other driver (Hardware/Software/Antivirus, etc)

I would personally use Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) to make sure you have no prior version drivers sitting resident, sometimes they can conflict.
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/performing-a-clean-gpu-driver-installation.65/

Your system specs are great, very good quality all round, especially for the PSU as a lot of people neglect the PSU and get lower quality ones, which can create issues in themselves.
 
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