Can't record 1080p60

[Powesedor (Pedro Pereira)]

Hi guys, so I'm using obs to record my Gameplay and for some reason I can't record fortnite at 60fps 1080p resolution.

I can play with more than 100 fps normally and even when I record the gameplay is smooth, over 90 fps but the video quality is so crappy. Also when streaming to youtube, I can't stream at 720p60, although the actual gameplay quality is not affected the stream comes out 30ish fps. I'll live 2 screenshots with my obs settings.

 

My rig : 

System

• CPU
  Intel core i7-4790
• Motherboard
  Asus z97-c
• RAM
  Kingston DDR3 HyperX Fury Red 2x8192MB 1866MHz
• GPU
  Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix
• Case
  Cooler Master Master Case Pro 5
• Storage
  Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 64MB SATAIII
• PSU
  Corsair cx600M
• SSD
  Crucial bx100 120GB

  • OS : Win10

[PlayStation 2]

What site are you streaming to?

[Powesedor (Pedro Pereira)]

4 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

What site are you streaming to?

youtube

 

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Powesedor (Pedro Pereira) said:

youtube

Hmm.

What does the quality selector show on YouTube? Does it show 720p60 or does it show other things rather than that?

[Powesedor (Pedro Pereira)]

2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Hmm.

What does the quality selector show on YouTube? Does it show 720p60 or does it show other things rather than that?

It shows 720p60, and sometimes it actually stream at that frame rate but mostly at 30. My upload speed is 10k, not the best but still good enough for x264 5k bitrate

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Powesedor (Pedro Pereira) said:

It shows 720p60, and sometimes it actually stream at that frame rate but mostly at 30. My upload speed is 10k, not the best but still good enough for x264 5k bitrate

Hmm, now I'm a little confused. Does OBS show it dropping frames?

[Powesedor (Pedro Pereira)]

2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Hmm, now I'm a little confused. Does OBS show it dropping frames?

Nop! I mean the square is mostly green and the most frames it dropped during a 2h stream was 1%. I'm confused too, and a bit frustrated tbh. Also I can't record at 1080p60

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Powesedor (Pedro Pereira) said:

Nop! I mean the square is mostly green and the most frames it dropped during a 2h stream was 1%. I'm confused too, and a bit frustrated tbh. Also I can't record at 1080p60

Yeah, now I'm just confused as to what OBS is doing here. All I can really say is see if reinstalling drivers will do anything as I noticed that you're using GPU encoding.

[Powesedor (Pedro Pereira)]

5 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Yeah, now I'm just confused as to what OBS is doing here. All I can really say is see if reinstalling drivers will do anything as I noticed that you're using GPU encoding.

I did that already, I have the lastest driver according to GeForce Experience 

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Powesedor (Pedro Pereira) said:

I did that already, I have the lastest driver according to GeForce Experience 

Hate to ask, but is Shadowplay also recording in the background?

[Powesedor (Pedro Pereira)]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Hate to ask, but is Shadowplay also recording in the background?

Np, ask what you need. I think not, but to be sure I'll disable it   

[Powesedor (Pedro Pereira)]

17 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Hate to ask, but is Shadowplay also recording in the background?

Ok i maneged to see the problem, My pc doesn't handle 40k bitrate, i decided to go down to 25k. Works fine but I would like to get a little bit higher but for that I'll have to go with try and error

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Powesedor (Pedro Pereira) said:

Ok i maneged to see the problem, My pc doesn't handle 40k bitrate, i decided to go down to 25k. Works fine but I would like to get a little bit higher but for that I'll have to go with try and error

Oh, alright.

[Powesedor (Pedro Pereira)]

8 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Oh, alright.

So it decided to not work again, tried with Dxtory and it worked fine, 1080p60 no frame drops. OBS seems to be the problem 

[DeafLemming]

having the cpu usage preset on "faster" could be the culprit, that can be quite taxing. Also, check your settings in the video tab. They may not be set to 1080p and thus why you are not recording at 1080p

 

Also, try recording with CQP instead of CBR. From what I've seen for recording CQP is better than CBR. Use something between 15-25 with 15 being better quality but more filesize, and 25 being lesser (note I said lesser not worst) quality but smaller file sizes.

 

[Syntaxvgm]

put the cpu encoding on VERY FAST since you're not using it as a dedicated recording pc. Not joking

I suggest bumping up the bitrate if you need to match, and encode later with handbrake at night or something if it's not a stream. 

Any bitrate limitations are likely your storage. Its wise to record to an ssd for extremely high bitrate, then copy to mass storage later. HDD should handle at least 50Mb/s safely with room to spare if nothing else is accessing it often. Typically past that they wont play back on mech drives without buffering either. These bitrates are of course only really good for stills or editing, way more than you need for yt obv. 10-15 is more than enough, and more than yt allows for. Using nvenc, you are doing 40Mb/s (bitrate is in Kb, not labeled I know), which is VERY high (but sometimes doable on a dedicated mech drive), so check your storage activity while recording and playing back. Nvenc is going to affect games much less as it's a built in gpu function, but its very blocky at lower bitrates. I suggest cpu if you can spare some cpu power. 

[Syntaxvgm]

Also, never, never use mp4.

If something konks and the file isn't closed, recovering the video you already recorded is a bitch, and believe me crashing while recording is a thing you just have to deal with on occasion 

[Powesedor (Pedro Pereira)]

9 hours ago, LozzyTheLemming said:

having the cpu usage preset on "faster" could be the culprit, that can be quite taxing. Also, check your settings in the video tab. They may not be set to 1080p and thus why you are not recording at 1080p

 

Also, try recording with CQP instead of CBR. From what I've seen for recording CQP is better than CBR. Use something between 15-25 with 15 being better quality but more filesize, and 25 being lesser (note I said lesser not worst) quality but smaller file sizes.

 

So I changed to very fast, didn't test the stream but my problem is also recording. Is obs that heavy that dxtory can record 1080p60 easly and obs can't ? Tested with Streamlabs OBS too but same happened 

[Powesedor (Pedro Pereira)]

8 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Also, never, never use mp4.

If something konks and the file isn't closed, recovering the video you already recorded is a bitch, and believe me crashing while recording is a thing you just have to deal with on occasion 

I tried a lot of different file types, but all of them lagg

[Syntaxvgm]

2 hours ago, Powesedor (Pedro Pereira) said:

I tried a lot of different file types, but all of them lagg

shouldn't, but that bitrate is crazy

[DeafLemming]

9 hours ago, Powesedor (Pedro Pereira) said:

So I changed to very fast, didn't test the stream but my problem is also recording. Is obs that heavy that dxtory can record 1080p60 easly and obs can't ? Tested with Streamlabs OBS too but same happened 

It isn't heavy but your setting might still be too much for your specs to handle. keep turning the quality down until it no longer lags. Also doing everything on a single HDD doesn't help either, from what I know if you record to HDD it should be a dedicated drive and not a boot drive.

 

Try this, Record a 30 secondish clip of gameplay, using CQP and at 25. if that doesn't lag, then try 24, repeat until you get to a point that it starts to have lag in the recordings, and then revert to a number where it isn't right on the edge of what your PC can handle. So if it starts to be crap recordings at say 17, don't just then stick it on 18 and call it a day, put it onto 20.