Question / Help Upgraded from Win7 to Win10, Games Now Lag Badly While Using OBS

[Dualzodiac]

I upgraded from Win7 to Win10 recently, and everything was fine until I went to record a game with OBS. I've been using OBS a while with no issues on Win7 so I was pretty surprised to find that even just having OBS open in the background, not recording, was causing severe in-game lag. I've reinstalled OBS and updated drivers to no avail. I've lowered CBR for recording and that also didn't work. I can no longer record quality videos at 1080p. The games run fine without OBS open.

I don't stream, I use OBS just for recording, and again it was working great before the Win10 upgrade. Is there something conflicting here? I thought Win10 was supposed to be better for gaming lol.

 

[Tarumes]

Hello
please provide a logfile
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/please-post-a-log-with-your-issue-heres-how.23074/

Please try to include a recording/streaming session when you experience problems while streaming or recording,
as OBS only writes important performance data during recording or streaming sessions.

If you have solved your problem yourself, please let the others know how you did it If someone else has the same problem,
he will find your post, read it through, is no step closer to solving it, and has wasted some time.

possible solution
https://obsproject.com/wiki/How-to-disable-Windows-10-Gaming-Features