Recording with OBS (Footage Stutters...)

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Hi all,

I'm trying to record some footage using OBS (playing Overwatch). I am using OBS to record, I figured it could.

I am able to play the game fine with no stutter, but when I review the footage it lags, and stutters. Can anyone tell me what I can do?

To be honest, I also have an issue when streaming and the quality but for now I'd like to try and get the footage recording sorted. I have tried switching from flv to mp4, putting bitrate at 1000, 1500, 2000, 3000 etc.

I play at 3440x1440 and thought that might be the issue (7950) but I tried setting my resolution to 1920x1080 and the same issue still occurred.
 
Using an ssd top record into? If it helps my settings are in this video, on mobile so and can't actually get it to play to get the time for you though lol

 
Gangster said:
Hi all,

I'm trying to record some footage using OBS (playing Overwatch). I am using OBS to record, I figured it could.

I am able to play the game fine with no stutter, but when I review the footage it lags, and stutters. Can anyone tell me what I can do?

To be honest, I also have an issue when streaming and the quality but for now I'd like to try and get the footage recording sorted. I have tried switching from flv to mp4, putting bitrate at 1000, 1500, 2000, 3000 etc.

I play at 3440x1440 and thought that might be the issue (7950) but I tried setting my resolution to 1920x1080 and the same issue still occurred.
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First what are you using to play back the video what I found in my early days is that Media player classic didn't like playing those type of videos they would be laggy and not smooth but windows media player played them fine.
They would be fine once I had edited them and processed them in my editor.
 
As Halfmad asked, what are you recording into as if it's an older hdd then it may not be able to keep up with the bitrate and thus recording size causing it to skip parts during recording.

IE if your drive can be written to at for ease of numbers sake 10mb/s and your recording requires 20mb/s then it's going to get choppy.
 
harry5522 said:
As Halfmad asked, what are you recording into as if it's an older hdd then it may not be able to keep up with the bitrate and thus recording size causing it to skip parts during recording.

IE if your drive can be written to at for ease of numbers sake 10mb/s and your recording requires 20mb/s then it's going to get choppy.
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Dxtroy is good for checking that sort of stuff as it shows how the drive is doing
 
Ah cool didn't know that :) I don't really use much recording software had used Dxtory in the past and had tried OBS but shadow play just rocks it all for me just for how easy it is to use and the fact i only use it for clips shared only with friends for laughs so i can happily drop the extra 3% quality gained from other software.

Cool that Dxtory can do that though :)

Looking forward to shadowplays update that implements split audio tracks that will make life super easy for a lot of people.
 
I'd love to go back to Shadowplay, even if I have to handbrake it to sync audio for editing but they seem to be dragging their heels over that update :(

other than HDD speed the only other problem I've hit with DXTory or OBS is CPU usage, if it's a particularly demanding game, or one on early access where the CPU usage jumps about a lot it can hit recording performance randomly and cause stuttering. The only solution I found to this was recording in a lower resolution or tweaking the game to make it less demanding. Star Citizen is a good example of that, I can't record at 1440P that reliably in it at times mostly as CPU usage is all over the shop but most other games are happy at 1440P and even 4K if I push my luck.

GPU usage by comparison doesn't seem to affect it much even on the Nvidia codec.

This may all be caused by a bottleneck somewhere that I haven't identified e.g. RAM, SATA speed etc but trial and error just seems to be the best plan with the game you want to record I guess.
 
With Dxtroy I use Lagarith Lossless Video Codec then after selecting the codec select the settings for the codec [ pen looking thing next to its name ] and set the mode to YV12 I think it was which will make it a little less taxing another thing to pick there is the muilthreading box.

Give that a go and see if it helps theres a guide here that could help

But don't be afraid to try things its the best way to learn what works.
 
Are you experiencing fps drops in game when playing and recording on obs?

A lot of people are asking good questions on encoding and play back, but if youre getting fps drops then that could be the cause.
 
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