What settings for 4K 60fps screen recording in games? If even possible...

Two-Oh-Five

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Hello!
As of late I have been wanting to get screen recordings of a game I really like, and I would like to upload it to YouTube. I'd like have the gameplay be in 4K 60fps, and without massive compression. Since I don't have an Nvidia GPU, I have to use x264. This means I'm going to have to do a delicate balancing act with compression and not overloading the encoding.
Recently I got to play around with a relative's new computer, featuring a Ryzen 9 7900X and Radeon RX 6950 XT. Since it's an AMD (and the exact same GPU I have) NVENC is unavailable to me. According to my memory, these are the settings I used on that computer, see attachment. Unfortunately, when I completed the screen recording, I found that the video looked compressed, and the detail when things were in fast motion looked pretty bad. I tried changing the CPU usage preset to Medium, but this instead overloaded the CPU and made the recording unusable, which I found shocking given how powerful that CPU is.
So, I come here, asking for suggestions on what settings I should use for doing this, in hopes of there being some way to make this better. However, I'm going to be very very unsurprised if it turns out that screen recording at the quality I want is impossible with the hardware available.
Thank you!
 

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DayGeckoArt

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You almost never want to use CBR. The best option is usually CQP which will vary bitrate to maintain quality, avoiding the blocky compression with fast motion. But CQP may not be an option with the software encoder, so you would use VBR. I'm not sure 4K 60fps encoding is possible with current CPUs though
 
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