Question / Help Recording Blurry, Laggy And CPU Usage Is Really High

[Deleted member 212467]

So my specs are:

Processor
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

RAM
16 GB

Operating System
Windows 10

My OBS settings are:
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So when I try and record a game or something with these current settings, it says that the CPU usage is too high and I need to change my encoder settings, even when I am just recoding something such as my desktop it is on 10-15% CPU usage, if someone could help me it would be appreciated.

 

[Tomasz Góral]

CPU too slow

 

[Deleted member 212467]

CPU too slow

There is no point just saying that it is slow, I know it is slow, I am asking how can I fix it.

 

[Tomasz Góral]

Game Bar OFF
Game DVR OFF
CPU & GPU too busy for encoding, free up resources, I don't know what you have running and whether you can limit what you are streaming.

 

[Deleted member 212467]

Game Bar OFF
Game DVR OFF
CPU & GPU too busy for encoding, free up resources, I don't know what you have running and whether you can limit what you are streaming.

I already have all of those off, and nothing is running in the background.

 

[Deleted member 121471]

1) Change colour format back to "NV12", Colour Space to "709", Colour Range to "Partial";
2) Use NVENC (new), "Quality" preset, "CQP" rate control set to 16-23 (lower values = higher quality and diskpace requirements), disable "Lookahead" and "Psycho Visual Tuning";
3) Use "Game capture" instead of "Display capture";
4) Run OBS as administrator;
5) Under Windows 10 settings, "Gaming" category, enable "Game mode" and disable every other option you can find.

Unrelated to your problem, change recording format to .mkv then use File--->Remux recordings, after you end your session, if you really need .mp4 for editing purposes.

 

[Deleted member 212467]

1) Change colour format back to "NV12", Colour Space to "709", Colour Range to "Partial";
2) Use NVENC (new), "Quality" preset, "CQP" rate control set to 16-23 (lower values = higher quality and diskpace requirements), disable "Lookahead" and "Psycho Visual Tuning";
3) Use "Game capture" instead of "Display capture";
4) Run OBS as administrator;
5) Under Windows 10 settings, "Gaming" category, enable "Game mode" and disable every other option you can find.

Unrelated to your problem, change recording format to .mkv then use File--->Remux recordings, after you end your session, if you really need .mp4 for editing purposes.

Ok thanks for the help.

 

[Deleted member 212467]

1) Change colour format back to "NV12", Colour Space to "709", Colour Range to "Partial";
2) Use NVENC (new), "Quality" preset, "CQP" rate control set to 16-23 (lower values = higher quality and diskpace requirements), disable "Lookahead" and "Psycho Visual Tuning";
3) Use "Game capture" instead of "Display capture";
4) Run OBS as administrator;
5) Under Windows 10 settings, "Gaming" category, enable "Game mode" and disable every other option you can find.

Unrelated to your problem, change recording format to .mkv then use File--->Remux recordings, after you end your session, if you really need .mp4 for editing purposes.

Did all them and it now says encoding overloaded? But I can see my CPU % is decreased a lot and is now on 5%

 

[Deleted member 121471]

Post a new logfile with a recording session and the changed settings.

 

[Deleted member 212467]

Here you go.

 

[Deleted member 212467]

It isn't a constant encoding overload message, it records, and every 10-20 seconds it says encoding overloaded for about 6 seconds.

 

[Deleted member 121471]

Try capping your ingame FPS with VSYNC, ingame FPS cap or Rivatuner. Other than this, there's nothing else I can see that is wrong with your settings.