When I have OBS open even when I'm not recording or streaming it makes my game choppy and a lot less smooth.

[Distinctx1]

I recorded 2 logs, one with OBS on my second monitor (60hz) and again on my main monitor (144hz). it was significantly better on my main monitor but still not as smooth when OBS is not open. I don't know if this is to be expected but I'd love some feedback if I can fix this. And in the log it says browser not accelerated but I'm using OperaGX as my browser and it is on. And should I turn off hardware accelerated GPU ? I've also heard game mode is bad for OBS and I usually run as admin. Also when streaming does having the twitch docks affect my stream ? sorry for all the questions I've been dealing with this problem for a while now searching forums and other reddit posts and nothing has helped me so far. Also I'm not exactly losing frames in game to my knowledge it just gets less smooth then when its not running.

Specs:

GPU - 1080 Ti

CPU - i7 8700k

Ram - 32gb g.skill trident z ddr4

Motherboard - rog maximus x hero

I record at 1080p 60fps and stream at 720p 60fps 4500 bitrate. there is also a image of my internet speed in the task manager folder.

Log from 60hz monitor : https://obsproject.com/logs/9xZZ_gPzDFAz4cHW

Log from 144hz monitor : https://obsproject.com/logs/6-ynpkw71OkiUGyV

 

[PaiSand]

Please review and follow directions and recommendations on the analyzer:

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

The plugins you're using are known cause issues too as this consume more resources. Any plugin you don't use, remove.
For streaming and recording, less is more. The less processes running the more quality you get.

Windows Game Mode is good and recommended if you have your windows updated.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

I'd recommend searching this forum on prior discussions related to Windows 10 and monitors at different refresh rates
Previous recommendations have been to keep screen refresh and even multiple of your capture rate. So if capturing at 60fps, have screen at 120Hz (vs 144)... not sure that advice would apply to your situation, but might be worth something to check/test

I'm not suggesting planning to do without... but for troubleshooting purposes have you created a scene without the potentially CPU demanding audio effects filters and observed if that made a difference?