Why does my OBS Gameplay recording have stutters?

[san.space]

Hi friends.

I have been spending more than 7 days trying to figure out how to get smooth stutter free recordings using OBS game capture.My hardware is a RTX3090 GPU, i9-10900K CPU, 32GB RAM and 4K 160Hz Monitor. I always record in 4K, 60FPS. My storage is 1TB SSD (Samsung 970 EVO) and Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD, 7200RPM

I have also used Nvidia Shadowplay for recordings but the quality is inferior when compared to OBS even with their 150Mbps Max bit rate. The blur in visuals is clearly seen in scenes which has the sky in it.

I have tried all kinds of settings for game captures but still unable to get 100% stutter free recordings.*I have limited my max frame rate to 60fps in nvidia control panel*Turned off windows defender real time scanning*Turned on game Mode*Set process priority to high in OBS advanced settings*Run OBS as admin etc

Today finally I managed to get 0 skipped frames due to encoding lag. was finally relieved as I checked the OBS log first before playing back the video. OBS log analyzer also showed no critical errors or warnings.Then came the heartbreaking part again! When i played back the video was hoping for a stutter free recording, but the recording had stutters.

I am seriously not able to figure out what is causing these stutters in recorded videos, when the actual gameplay is smooth and has no stutters. I seriously believe with the hardware I have, I should be able to get stutter free recordings.

I am sure there are people getting stutter free gameplay recordings using OBS with this hardware.

I am desperate to get this issue solved and get stutter free gameplay recordings.

Any help on this would be very very helpful to me.

Here is my OBS Log : https://obsproject.com/logs/NoXtvTvMoZeKZf1A



Thanks in advance.

 

[koala]

What media player you're using? 4k 60 Hz with CQP rate control might be out of reach for the standard Windows player. Your media might be flawless but not your player correctly playing it back.
Try a standalone player like VLC or Media Player Classic. With MPC, you're able to very comfortably single step through each frame of your video and actually identify duplicated frames.