Question / Help Weird stuttering

[George B.]

Ok, firstly i am kinda new to obs and streaming on twitch.Now I have this problem and I dont know how to fix it.
Whenever I stream or record stuff in 720p 30fps everything is choppy and laggy, But if I stream in 720p and 60 fps everything looks smooth and good.
Now you may ask why would I want to stream in 30fps instead of 60 and that because I have a pretty low end CPU and in games like pubg I take a pretty big performance hit.
I've tried 3 games (pubg,fortnite,r6s) all of them locked at 60 fpr in game .

 

[Elixerin]

Ok, firstly i am kinda new to obs and streaming on twitch.Now I have this problem and I dont know how to fix it.
Whenever I stream or record stuff in 720p 30fps everything is choppy and laggy, But if I stream in 720p and 60 fps everything looks smooth and good.
Now you may ask why would I want to stream in 30fps instead of 60 and that because I have a pretty low end CPU and in games like pubg I take a pretty big performance hit.
I've tried 3 games (pubg,fortnite,r6s) all of them locked at 60 fpr in game .

okay, so the games you’ve listed are considered high paced action games, and what you are perceiving as choppy or laggy is just your eyes viewing something at half the smoothness of what you are used to, eg. 60 fps vs the 30 you are recording/streaming at. so ofcourse immediately after playing at 60fps viewing something half that is going to look choppy/laggy

 

[George B.]

Yes thats exactly what i thought at first but then i checked some other streamers who are streaming in 30 fps and it looked fine.

 

[Elixerin]

Yes thats exactly what i thought at first but then i checked some other streamers who are streaming in 30 fps and it looked fine.

mkay, this could either be due to an encoder overload(unlikely but possible) or dropped frames in OBS (network related), on the bottom right hand corner of the OBS application it shows what fps the software is currently streaming/recording at, make sure that number stays at 30 and doesnt bounce around

 

[MCBYT]

This is just my personal experience, but it's always been easier for me to record the game at the same frame rate it's being displayed at. If you have those games frame-locked to 60fps, 60fps might work better than 30fps or 120fps. You could possibly frame-lock it to 50fps if you want smooth gameplay and recording, because it'll then be locked, taking up less cpu but still looking very smooth.