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    Question / Help Moments of Choppy Playback When Recording Multiple Audio Tracks

    For some reason, when I'm trying to record multiple audio tracks, the resulting video is noticeably sluggish at moments. At first I wasn't convinced that I was seeing something wrong until a moment in a clip where me firing my weapon in-game was totally off from the video due to the...
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    Question / Help Choppy footage

    When I try to record this specific game, Hunt: Showdown, my footage is incredibly choppy while on my screen I'm getting my regular FPS. When I play the game it is smooth and consistent but when I look at OBS it is capturing the footage terribly. It is only this game where it happens. My specs...
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    Question / Help Pattern in choppy streams/recordings, don't know how to fix.

    Every few seconds or so, the screen on my recording/stream freezes for a split second, before returning to normal. This is a pattern that repeats itself steadily over an entire running course of OBS, and I have tweaked with all of my available options to try and fix it. Is my only remaining...
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    Question / Help My clips are turning out choppy

    I need help. My clips always come out super choppy. I have changed the setting numerous times, and I have a decent PC. What am I doing wrong?
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    Question / Help Far Cry 5 -Recording freezes and lag on decent pc-

    I have an issue where my recording file is choppy on playback but the game is smooth, this seems to only happen when recording FarCry5. Any suggestions? Specs are: i5-6600k @ 4.4ghz 16gb 3200hz DDR4 Ram Gtx 980 slightly OC'd Log File: https://obsproject.com/logs/YZK8p3k_xcdOkAmp
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    Question / Help No matter what i do my recordings always end up choppy and laggy

    Hey everyone, i want to start recording videos but its literally impossible. Ive seen so many youtube videos but every setting i try either makes the game lag so much while recording, or the game smooth but really laggy and choppy recording, ive tried autoconfigure and anything but nothing is...
  7. Troy2

    Question / Help OBS Recording Is Disgustingly Laggy (Encoding overloaded! Consider turning down video settings or using a faster encoding preset.)

    Hi, My recordings on OBS Studio used to be just a little laggy, now they are extremely (1 frame per 5 seconds) laggy and I do not know how to fix it. I am not recording games, streaming or doing anything that could tire OBS. I noticed that now I am getting this error: Encoding overloaded...
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    Question / Help Laggy/Choppy stream but no performance hit in game

    First of all I'll list my specs: RTX 2070 i9 9900k OC 5ghz 16gb ddr4 memory 2TB HDD (OBS is here) 200gb SSD ----------------------------------- 2x 144hz 1080p monitors Now I will address my problems that I've literally spent hour trying to fix to the point of ripping my hair out, So 5 days...
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    Question / Help Windows 10 - Dark screen bug

    Hi, I've had this before, and figured out that my NVIDIA Geforce Photo Mode (F2 button) was responsible for this. Since that point I have disabled it, and OBS seemed to be working fine. It's back again though, the screen is showing as dark and very choppy on the OBS screen. Is there a simple fix...
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    Question / Help Choppy Video Issues

    I am new to most of this recording stuff and don't have much of an idea of what is wrong with my recordings, they come out choppy but only towards the end, here is the link to the log: https://obsproject.com/logs/gr-KF93QSOsTt6F7 If someone could help, that would be amazing!
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    Question / Help OBS lagging during preview and Playback

    I had never had such a problem with OBS before, including lag. Recently I decided to open it up again and try to start recording some roblox videos with my buddy. Anyways, when I started to record there was lag on the preview screen and it was very choppy with the video on the playback after...
  12. Sov

    Question / Help Game FPS is fine but output video is choppy.

    Hello! i have looked through the forums hoping that this question had already been answered, however to no avail. i also have read the forum thread on high CPU usage but nothing has solved my problem. As a side note: I used to be able to record with OBS at 1080p/60 FPS without this choppyness...
  13. Sov

    Question / Help High FPS while recording, but very choppy output video

    Hello! I've already tried to adjust some settings that should help prevent this problem however, to no avail. Whenever I record my FPS is hardly touched at all. But again, the output video is very, very choppy. https://obsproject.com/logs/zW4vl_4m47ljOtow
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    Question / Help Choppy stream but no FPS drops or high encoding?

    Hello! I recently noticed that my streams look a bit choppy sometimes but I don't know why, I've changed settings to 1080p, NVENC, 6000 bitrate and my PC can handle it just fine, but even on 3000 bitrate, x264 and 720p it did the same thing. I originally noticed it on tomb raider, I assumed it...
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    Question / Help Skipped frames due to encoding

    I have been having an issue with recording Rainbow Six Siege. Every time i record it, it has like 60-80% skipped frames and idk whats wrong. I Followed this guys video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydPJuHBfxU4
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    Question / Help OBS Choppy Video.

    Here is a link to a video on what is exactly going on: https://youtu.be/f_rX5Faa8ZY The first video I show in it is from today, and the second was back in February when my issue was perfectly fine. I'm so lost and confused on why this is happening again and why in general is continues to happen...
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    Question / Help Choppy Stream! HELP.

    Good Morning, I have been messing with this all night long and I am throwing in the towel and asking for help. I looked all over the internet and could not find anything that seemed to help, I feel like it is probably something stupid easy i just cant figure out. When I open obs everything is...
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    Question / Help encoding issue that should not exist

    when recording I get choppy videos and the overload encoding message no matter the settings I use I built a new PC. I have been trying to record apex legends. the only time a not choppy video was recorded was in 480p 30fps have followed many tutorials from people with Ryzen systems with less...
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    Question / Help Recording help

    I was wondering if anyone can help me fix my videos from coming out so choppy. I need to figure settings that are best for recording videos. My graphics card is a AMD A10-9700 RADEON R7. My CPU is barley being used and my computer runs smooth while recording but when I stop and watch the video...
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    Question / Help Very Choppy recording and weird audio

    Hi guys, I have only been using OBS for a short amount of time. Whenever I watch my gameplay that OBS has captured it is very choppy and the audio sounds out of place. The Log: 18:57:46.214: CPU Name: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor 18:57:46.214: CPU Speed: 2994MHz 18:57:46.214...
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