Shadow_Moses
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Hi all! I just wondered if anyone can help me out? When I record my PC games using OBS, my vids come out stuttery, laggy, and a bit choppy, even though the game itself is running at a locked 60 FPS. All of this has just started to happen after I upgraded from an RTX 2070 to the RTX 5080. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
As I just mentioned, I recently upgraded from an RTX 2070 to the RTX 5080, and now I have had nothing but trouble while trying to record my "let's play" videos for my YouTube gaming channel. I have been running a gaming channel on YouTube for about 6 years now, and for the last 3 years, I have been using the RTX 2070 to encode all of my videos. All of the recordings were buttery smooth with barely any hitching, stutter, judder, frame drops, freezing, or any other issues that might cause the videos to look choppy. Below, I will list my PC specs and the OBS settings which I have always used (as far as I can remember).
My System: Ryzen 7 5700X (With water cooling) - RTX 5080 - 32gb Corsair Vengeance Pro Ram - Western Digital Black SN850X 2TB M.2 NVME Drive - Kingston 240gb SSD (for recording) - MSI MAG 850W PSU
I can't remember what model motherboard I have, but I know that it's a fairly expensive Asus ROG board.
And yes, I know that I'm using an AM4 set up, but most people who know a lot more about PC gaming than I do, told me that I shouldn't experience any type of bottleneck, but I might lose about 1 to 5 FPS, due to my motherboard being pcie 3.0, and so far, I would say that they are pretty much spot on.
OBS Settings: Encoder - NVENC HEVC (before, NVENC H.264) | Bitrate - I often flutter between 25K and 30K | Keyframe Interval - 2 | Preset - P7 | Look-ahead - Disabled | Adaptive Quantisation (formally Psycho-Visual Tuning) - sometimes on, sometimes off | Canvas - A base of 4K downscaled to 1440p (just so I can get YouTube to use VP09 when uploading my videos) using the Lanczos downscale filter
I always record to a separate SSD, and I cap my FPS at 60 using River Tuner, as I only have a 4K 60hz panel.
Again, I was using all of these settings while I was using the 2070 for encoding over the past 3 years, and all of my recordings were super smooth! So, you probably can imagine just how excited I was to get my RTX 5080, and take the quality of my recordings to new heights! Well, in terms of recording with OBS, it's been nothing but a BIG disappointment!
Using the exact same OBS settings, all of my recordings now exhibit hitching, stutter, judder, dragging/slow down, frame skips, and freezing. At some points in some of my videos, it can end up looking like a slideshow! How can this be?! How can the 2070 outperform the 5080 in this regard? The 5080 itself performs as expected while gaming. I would say at least 97% of the time, I'm getting a flat 60 and the frame time graph is also mostly flat with a few little spikes here and there, and that is also while I'm recording with OBS. I also upgraded my CPU and PSU, so my rig could handle the 5080, and there doesn't seem to be any sign of a bottleneck anywhere as far as I can tell. While looking at my CPU/GPU utilisation, neither seem to be getting pushed too hard, so there's definitely lots of headroom for OBS to do it's thing.
Over the past few months, I haven't even managed to have a proper gaming session, because I have been going through endless tutorials, trying everything possible to get OBS to record videos like it did in the past. I am now starting to think that this is either a driver issue, or an issue with the 50 series cards themselves. Something that further backs up that hunch, is that I also have a capture card mounted to the motherboard which I use for capturing my PS5 and Switch 2. Obviously, if I'm using my console to game, then OBS has all the resources in the world to be able to provide smooth recordings. But no, even these recordings are plagued with all of the problems aforementioned.
I always run OBS as an administrator, I have tried recording with HAGS both on and off, I have turned off all overlays and background DVR programs, I have set OBS to high priority, got game mode turned on, reloaded/rolled back drivers, did a complete wipe with DDU, and there's a ton of other stuff I have tried, and still, the problem persists.
It's a shame that I sold my 2070 to help me purchase this damn 5080! I'm at a complete loss, and I have no idea what to do. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated!
As I just mentioned, I recently upgraded from an RTX 2070 to the RTX 5080, and now I have had nothing but trouble while trying to record my "let's play" videos for my YouTube gaming channel. I have been running a gaming channel on YouTube for about 6 years now, and for the last 3 years, I have been using the RTX 2070 to encode all of my videos. All of the recordings were buttery smooth with barely any hitching, stutter, judder, frame drops, freezing, or any other issues that might cause the videos to look choppy. Below, I will list my PC specs and the OBS settings which I have always used (as far as I can remember).
My System: Ryzen 7 5700X (With water cooling) - RTX 5080 - 32gb Corsair Vengeance Pro Ram - Western Digital Black SN850X 2TB M.2 NVME Drive - Kingston 240gb SSD (for recording) - MSI MAG 850W PSU
I can't remember what model motherboard I have, but I know that it's a fairly expensive Asus ROG board.
And yes, I know that I'm using an AM4 set up, but most people who know a lot more about PC gaming than I do, told me that I shouldn't experience any type of bottleneck, but I might lose about 1 to 5 FPS, due to my motherboard being pcie 3.0, and so far, I would say that they are pretty much spot on.
OBS Settings: Encoder - NVENC HEVC (before, NVENC H.264) | Bitrate - I often flutter between 25K and 30K | Keyframe Interval - 2 | Preset - P7 | Look-ahead - Disabled | Adaptive Quantisation (formally Psycho-Visual Tuning) - sometimes on, sometimes off | Canvas - A base of 4K downscaled to 1440p (just so I can get YouTube to use VP09 when uploading my videos) using the Lanczos downscale filter
I always record to a separate SSD, and I cap my FPS at 60 using River Tuner, as I only have a 4K 60hz panel.
Again, I was using all of these settings while I was using the 2070 for encoding over the past 3 years, and all of my recordings were super smooth! So, you probably can imagine just how excited I was to get my RTX 5080, and take the quality of my recordings to new heights! Well, in terms of recording with OBS, it's been nothing but a BIG disappointment!
Using the exact same OBS settings, all of my recordings now exhibit hitching, stutter, judder, dragging/slow down, frame skips, and freezing. At some points in some of my videos, it can end up looking like a slideshow! How can this be?! How can the 2070 outperform the 5080 in this regard? The 5080 itself performs as expected while gaming. I would say at least 97% of the time, I'm getting a flat 60 and the frame time graph is also mostly flat with a few little spikes here and there, and that is also while I'm recording with OBS. I also upgraded my CPU and PSU, so my rig could handle the 5080, and there doesn't seem to be any sign of a bottleneck anywhere as far as I can tell. While looking at my CPU/GPU utilisation, neither seem to be getting pushed too hard, so there's definitely lots of headroom for OBS to do it's thing.
Over the past few months, I haven't even managed to have a proper gaming session, because I have been going through endless tutorials, trying everything possible to get OBS to record videos like it did in the past. I am now starting to think that this is either a driver issue, or an issue with the 50 series cards themselves. Something that further backs up that hunch, is that I also have a capture card mounted to the motherboard which I use for capturing my PS5 and Switch 2. Obviously, if I'm using my console to game, then OBS has all the resources in the world to be able to provide smooth recordings. But no, even these recordings are plagued with all of the problems aforementioned.
I always run OBS as an administrator, I have tried recording with HAGS both on and off, I have turned off all overlays and background DVR programs, I have set OBS to high priority, got game mode turned on, reloaded/rolled back drivers, did a complete wipe with DDU, and there's a ton of other stuff I have tried, and still, the problem persists.
It's a shame that I sold my 2070 to help me purchase this damn 5080! I'm at a complete loss, and I have no idea what to do. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated!
