Question / Help Windows 10 - saving locally - videos freeze

[mothman]

I've been using OBS successfully for quite some time for recording game clips under Windows 7.

I use the replay buffer feature, and just record clips as needed. I don't stream, I only record locally.

I had to do a lot of messing around with settings to find a balance of video quality vs. impact on game performance, and managed to get it working fairly well with my Frankenstein-esque settings ... I won't pretend to really know what a lot of the settings do, I just experimented. (note: not resembling the guidelines here for good local recording, at all.. I started there, but had to make changes to allow my games to still run smoothly).

Anyway, fast forward to a couple weeks ago when I finally updated my desktop to Windows 10.

Ever since, then, any OBS videos I've recorded don't record/playback properly... about every 5 seconds or so, the video pauses momentarily, while the audio continues... then the video jumps ahead and continues. This repeats through the video. Seems as if more motion in the video results in more pauses, but I'm not totally sure about that.

My gaming session itself continues to run smoothly, just the recorded clips have this video pausing issue, like video frames are missing.

I changed nothing with OBS, only thing that has changed is my system is now Win10.

Is this simply a case of Win10 being more system-intensive then Win7, and I'll have to drop my recording quality?

Or is there anything I can do to tweak things to work better under Win10?

I will post a log later, after doing another recording session, I'm at work right now.... but I wanted to get my question out there, in case this is a common issue that is potentially an easy fix.

OBS is updated to latest version.

Specs:

cpu = i5 760 OC'd to ~ 3.5 GHz
ram = 8 GB
GPU = R9 280X


Edit: logfile added https://gist.github.com/48a2d737b6457d4c2bad

 

[Harold]

OBS log missing.

 

[mothman]

Yes, I will upload a log once I am back home.

 

[mothman]

Strangely, I just loaded up OBS and a game to generate a new log file.... and this time the video clips seem fine... Will experiment a bit more.

 

[mothman]

OK, so, no, it's still causing the issue.

Just to start from what I THINK is square one, I set the settings to those suggested in the quality local recording thread here.

Here is the log:

https://gist.github.com/48a2d737b6457d4c2bad

The resulting replay clip is filled with stuttering/pausing video, while the audio is fine.

 

[Sapiens]

The Division is a really heavy game on both CPU and GPU. What's your CPU/GPU utilization playing the game without OBS running and while moving around in the game? I'm guessing your hardware can't keep up with both with your current settings.

 

[mothman]

Noob question... What's the easiest way for me to watch my cpu usage while playing.

Also, the game I normally record if bf4 and it worked perfectly under Windows 7 but since windows 10 had had issues.

 

[mothman]

Also can you point me toward the best settings to experiment with to get best bang for buck on system resource easing? I don't need top quality video. Decent quality is good enough.