OBS Laggy Gameplay

[spree]

Hey! I was gonna record some gameplay, like any other day. However when watching what I had recorded it was all laggy, I thought it was just bad luck and decided to try again. Same thing, a laggy mess of a video. My FPS ingame is 100+ at all times. Yet the video feels like it's 20 fps. 

 

And now the weird thing is, I havent changed anything in OBS. 2 weeks ago (when the last time I recorded something) everything was smooth and worked fine. The only thing I have done, is move the game from my HDD to a new SSD. But I dont see how that could cause this issue. I don't understand!

 

PS: If this is the wrong section of the forum, please move this thread to where it belongs. 

 

-Thanks

 

 

[AlTech]

11 minutes ago, spree said:

Hey! I was gonna record some gameplay, like any other day. However when watching what I had recorded it was all laggy, I thought it was just bad luck and decided to try again. Same thing, a laggy mess of a video. My FPS ingame is 100+ at all times. Yet the video feels like it's 20 fps. 

 

And now the weird thing is, I havent changed anything in OBS. 2 weeks ago (when the last time I recorded something) everything was smooth and worked fine. The only thing I have done, is move the game from my HDD to a new SSD. But I dont see how that could cause this issue. I don't understand!

 

PS: If this is the wrong section of the forum, please move this thread to where it belongs. 

 

-Thanks

 

 

Hi, what codec are you using, what recording settings and where are you saving your gameplay?

[spree]

2 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Hi, what codec are you using, what recording settings and where are you saving your gameplay?

I record on my GPU (GTX 1070)

 

recording settings: https://gyazo.com/bc878bcabb28e6f474977e103aa7e76b

https://gyazo.com/dbdf3e3ea019faed8b877158d15ab8cf

 

I save my gameplay just into a normal folder, and I watch my footage with VLC. 

[BlakeThePCScrub]

19 minutes ago, spree said:

Hey! I was gonna record some gameplay, like any other day. However when watching what I had recorded it was all laggy, I thought it was just bad luck and decided to try again. Same thing, a laggy mess of a video. My FPS ingame is 100+ at all times. Yet the video feels like it's 20 fps. 

 

And now the weird thing is, I havent changed anything in OBS. 2 weeks ago (when the last time I recorded something) everything was smooth and worked fine. The only thing I have done, is move the game from my HDD to a new SSD. But I dont see how that could cause this issue. I don't understand!

 

PS: If this is the wrong section of the forum, please move this thread to where it belongs. 

 

-Thanks

 

 

bro get geforce to record, its soooooo much better.

I got my pc and had awful quality footage using obs as well as fps drops

Got geforce and it solved my problems.

[spree]

Just now, BlakeThePCScrub said:

bro get geforce to record, its soooooo much better.

I got my pc and had awful quality footage using obs as well as fps drops

Got geforce and it solved my problems.

Well I have tried using that, but had many problems. Such as it recording my low res fourth monitor instead of my main. And all the footage gets a low resolution. 

[BlakeThePCScrub]

1 minute ago, spree said:

Well I have tried using that, but had many problems. Such as it recording my low res fourth monitor instead of my main. And all the footage gets a low resolution. 

I'm pretty sure you can change that in the nvidia control panel or in geforce itself but I'm not certain.

Hopefully you sort it out but I highly suggest you stay away from OBS.

It is free on any platform for a good reason.

[spree]

Just now, BlakeThePCScrub said:

I'm pretty sure you can change that in the nvidia control panel or in geforce itself but I'm not certain.

Hopefully you sort it out but I highly suggest you stay away from OBS.

It is free on any platform for a good reason.

Yeah I made a thread about it here before, people said they know the problem already. However there is no fix if your main monitor inst in HDMI or DP, because geforce automatically uses whichever monitor is plugged into those (with the res) and my main monitor is DVI, and my shitty fourth monitor with bad res is in DP.

[AlTech]

5 minutes ago, BlakeThePCScrub said:

bro get geforce to record, its soooooo much better.

I got my pc and had awful quality footage using obs as well as fps drops

Got geforce and it solved my problems.

 

3 minutes ago, spree said:

Well I have tried using that, but had many problems. Such as it recording my low res fourth monitor instead of my main. And all the footage gets a low resolution. 

 

1 minute ago, BlakeThePCScrub said:

I'm pretty sure you can change that in the nvidia control panel or in geforce itself but I'm not certain.

Hopefully you sort it out but I highly suggest you stay away from OBS.

It is free on any platform for a good reason.

 

8 minutes ago, spree said:

I record on my GPU (GTX 1070)

 

recording settings: https://gyazo.com/bc878bcabb28e6f474977e103aa7e76b

https://gyazo.com/dbdf3e3ea019faed8b877158d15ab8cf

 

I save my gameplay just into a normal folder, and I watch my footage with VLC. 

Are you using the NVENC codec for recording in OBS? OBS offers a lot more features than Shadow Play and uses the same codec if you choose to use NVENC.

 

Also, what version of OBS are you using?

[spree]

Just now, AluminiumTech said:

 

 

 

Are you using the NVENC codec for recording in OBS? OBS offers a lot more features than Shadow Play and uses the same codec if you choose to use NVENC.

 

Also, what version of OBS are you using?

I am using NVENC. 

I am using the latest version of OBS. But like I said, I have been using OBS for monthes, with the same settings and recording the same game. Just today, when I started recording like any other day it was laggy. Not the game, but the video. I don't understand how that can be, with no changes made.

[AlTech]

Just now, spree said:

I am using NVENC. 

I am using the latest version of OBS. But like I said, I have been using OBS for monthes, with the same settings and recording the same game. Just today, when I started recording like any other day it was laggy. Not the game, but the video. I don't understand how that can be, with no changes made.

Are you recording to your SSD?

[spree]

Just now, AluminiumTech said:

Are you recording to your SSD?

All my videos are beeing saved on my HDD. 

[AlTech]

1 hour ago, spree said:

All my videos are beeing saved on my HDD. 

You didn't change anything other than moving your game from a HDD to SSD?

 

No Windows Update or new Nvidia driver or anything?

[spree]

22 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

You didn't change anything other than moving your game from a HDD to SSD?

 

No Windows Update or new Nvidia driver or anything?

Nope, nothing.

[spree]

Fix: Had recently changed my live wallpaper (from the steam program) and apperently for some weird reason this made my videos feel laggy. I do not understand why, since my CPU usage is still pretty low, and FPS ingame is the same. However this was the fix for anyone intrested in the future.

[AlTech]

1 hour ago, spree said:

Fix: Had recently changed my live wallpaper (from the steam program) and apperently for some weird reason this made my videos feel laggy. I do not understand why, since my CPU usage is still pretty low, and FPS ingame is the same. However this was the fix for anyone intrested in the future.

If you were using something like Wallpaper engine for your wallpaper then your system could easily have been affected. Oh and please remember to mark as solved.