OBS Studio

[jackson.manfredi]

Hi I have just built a new pc with a 1080 and an i7 770k with 16gb of RAM and I can't seem to get good settings for OBS Studio. Could anyone help me out.

 

Pc specs:  https://pcpartpicker.com/user/DaSwagBeast/saved/g2qP6h

 

I can't seem to find settings that don't look choppy. When I mess around with it nothing looks smooth and nice. Btw I am recording not streaming

[Septimus]

I just spent some time messing around with my settings in OBS the other day. Here's mine. 

If anyone else knows of better settings, I'd be happy to know as well. 

[tom_w141]

X264 would provide best quality but you won't have enough CPU horsepower to do that on a 7700k you'd need an R5 1600 minimum.

 

For next best results make sure it is set to NVENC, that uses the GPU. Quality isn't as good and high bitrates are required so be aware if you are streaming to twitch for example the quality will suffer. If you are just recording this should work fine.

[Septimus]

6 minutes ago, tom_w141 said:

For next best results make sure it is set to NVENC, that uses the GPU. Quality isn't as good and high bitrates are required so be aware if you are streaming to twitch for example the quality will suffer. If you are just recording this should work fine.

So for something like recording, a 4 core 8 thread machine should use X264 if the resolution and refresh rate don't bottleneck the CPU. In the event that it does bottleneck the CPU, use NVENC to instead leverage the GPU. While NVENC will yield higher performance, it will in turn yield lower quality. 

[WereCat]

My 1080p 60FPS settings for local recording with NVENC

 

[Mamonos]

So you have both good CPU and GPU and I would use one or the other depending on what you are recording (i.e. if you record a CPU bound game, I would use GPU power to record and vice versa).

 

Also to get good quality for recording I would use constant quality rather than constant bitrate enconding (which is more useful for streaming since it keeps the bitrate constant and so the upload smooth).

 

So my rule of thumb is for CPU I would use x264, with CRF Rate Control in a setting between 15 and 25, while for GPU use NVENC with CQP Rate Control between 15 and 25. The lower the value the better the quality, I would start around 20 and bear in mind if you lower around 15 files will be really big (I had problem to playback my files since my laptop had problem to buffer them...)

 

You also have the "Preset" section, for CPU is CPU Usage Preset (faster=less CPU used from the system) and for NVENC you have Preset and Profile and you can try to tweak around them depending on what game you play and what you want.

 

To give an example I record my CS:GO matches using NVENC (since CSGO is CPU bound game..) with CQP 18 and Preset: High-Quality Low Latency.

 

I also need to say that I like to have this kind of control in my setup but the "Simple" options are not bad at all also..