When I record with OBS, gameplay becomes way choppier, movement doesn't look fluid

[JakeW]

I've been having an issue with recording Minecraft with OBS. When I'm not recording the frames seem fine, and moving the screen around is fluid, but when I start recording with OBS when I move my screen it looks choppy/stuttery, and it appears this way in the recording too/ Also the recordings look way more compressed than the gameplay was. It looks way less detailed, I thought this was maybe an issue with bitrate, and so I increased it to 6000 Kbps, and there's definitely an improvement, but it still doesn't look that detailed. Should I increase the bitrate more? If so what should I increase it to? If you'd like I can include more log files, just let me know.

 

[Harold]

If you're recording, you should not be using a bitrate number at all and should instead be using a quality based rate control like CQP or the quality recording presets in simple output mode

 

[JakeW]

This is still an issue for me. Changing the CQP, and quality recording presets did nothing.

Edit: seems like it only happens in fullscreen mode, when I go in windowed mode it's less prevalent.