Dropping FPS in-game when using OBS

[TechnoBro03]

I recently have wanted to start recording videos of my gameplay. I've had OBS installed for a long time so I finally set it up. I have an R5 3600, and RX 5500xt, 16gb 3200,  it's not the most amazing hardware, but I'm perfectly happy with it and it easily gives me 144fps (refresh rate of display), in Valorant, the game I play the most. When I start recording, however, my fps in game becomes pretty inconsistent. Ranging from 120-144. I know recording takes system resources, however, literally nothing is maxed out. My GPU sits around 70% usage, and CPU around 60%, RAM at 9.5/16gb. And temps are very good. So why is my game dropping fps when it theoretically has plenty of headroom to record?

[Silentprototipe]

Heres the problem, AMD's hardware encoding is garbage tier compared to Nvidia's NVENC. My 6800M struggles to record using its hardware encoder in most games and I end up having to use X264 encoding to leverage my CPU instead of my 6800M. So if you have spare CPU horsepower left id recommend switching to X264 

[Deuxez]

33 minutes ago, Silentprototipe said:

Heres the problem, AMD's hardware encoding is garbage tier compared to Nvidia's NVENC. My 6800M struggles to record using its hardware encoder in most games and I end up having to use X264 encoding to leverage my CPU instead of my 6800M. So if you have spare CPU horsepower left id recommend switching to X264 

I can confirm this. AMDs hardware enconding is BEYOND garbage. My rx480 couldnt even record at 720p 30fps without somehow leaving me with EXTREME input lag and FPS drops(which it SHOULDNT be able to do). I later switched over to x264 and i could even bump it up to 1080p 60fps with no input lag nor FPS drops. I even thought about switching to NVIDIA for a while as my 480 couldnt do anything compared to something like a gtx 780.

[Silentprototipe]

1 minute ago, DankDeuxez said:

I can confirm this. AMDs hardware enconding is BEYOND garbage. My rx480 couldnt even record at 720p 30fps without somehow leaving me with EXTREME input lag and FPS drops(which it SHOULDNT be able to do). I later switched over to x264 and i could even bump it up to 1080p 60fps with no input lag nor FPS drops. I even thought about switching to NVIDIA for a while as my 480 couldnt do anything compared to something like a gtx 780.

If you think dropping frames with a 480 is bad try a 6800M. Game goes from flying at 90-100 FPS all the way down to 45 FPS with a ton of stutters. Moment I switched to x264 encoding to leverage my underutilized 5900HX the FPS intantly restored itself to around 85 FPS. Its embarrassing how bad AMD hardware encoding is 

[TechnoBro03]

I'm actually dropping more frames using the x264 encoder, again, even though my usage is nowhere near 100%

[Mark Kaine]

On 8/15/2021 at 3:39 AM, Silentprototipe said:

Heres the problem, AMD's hardware encoding is garbage

youre probably right…

 

However I found the radeon recording surprisingly good when i tried it with a 5500xt , which was otherwise rather underwhelming, but the recording was "good enough".

 

On 8/15/2021 at 7:36 AM, TechnoBro03 said:

I'm actually dropping more frames using the x264 encoder, again, even though my usage is nowhere near 100%

try "radeon relive"