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OBS, HELP!

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My horrible experience with OBS for the past last year, and I come here asking for help after the OBS forums after reading through their many articles and posting my own did not help.

Basically ever since a year ago a purchased my new computer been recording video games, with a few different software's most AMD Relive which works flawless.
Not OBS tho, watching tutorials and going through many troubleshooting I kinda found 2 conclusions:
A) There is no evidence that hardware is the fault. Many people online use my cpu (ever much lower cpu's) and same graphics card etc...they all use OBS just fine.
B) It must be a software issue. Some Windows 10 update, drivers etc...God only knows, cuz I don't

My videos while recording with OBS have huge frame drops and massive freezes. It does not matter how low I go with the OBS settings, or high (a combination of both) same result...with only slight variations here and there.

I get this message in OBS (not always) Encoding Overloaded. The message isn't always displayed, but the re coring is constant - horrible.
Googling it will find plenty of advise, mostly cuz of low end hardware...so turning down some settings will get the job done. Not my case. Even tho my PC is nothing great, again people with lower end computers have no issues including the Ryzen family. I did turn things down, but nothing helps.
All the games that I tested, of course at different graphical settings, have same syndrome.

A combination of very very low game settings, and low recording settings will result in a almost normal recording(something at 30fps that looks horrible).
The reason why I want OBS, it's because in theory it's an amazing software. Very important for me is sound, and I can have multiple audio tracks, that I can edit afterwards separate, not to mention the audio plugins, making my mediocre microphone sound professional.

I have proof on my channel that AMD ReLive works super great and my recordings are 60fps 1080 ultra no lag. Around same quality is if I use Windows 10 integrated gaming recording software.
However, OBS fails miserably.

Following this guys advise, and not just...cuz I have been studying this for quite some time, I set the game priority to low and the OBS to very high.

Nothing works. Downscale filter, makes no difference even if I go for Bilinear. I have tried AMD Advanced Media Framework on H264 & 265. x264 is the same...and from here the combination of settings are multiple, all wilt fail result.

I know some of you here use OBS, maybe not with Ryzen cpu's, i would love to hear your thoughts on this.
 
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uhm, some issue with your ram/swap file?
 
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I am fairly new to using OBS as well and I just wanted it to record, not stream. I was trying to get a 2 system setup going using my laptop + Elgato HD60S and OBS to record a 2nd monitor on my desktop so I could still play games with 120/144hz 1440p, but record a 2nd monitor at 1080p/60. Turns out the HD60S cannot really do that too well as I was getting stuttering and vsync issues due to the differences in refresh rates.

Anyway, I am back to using just my gaming pc to record using OBS and have been testing Dead Space and Half-Life both at 5120x2880 at 120hz using downsampling via DSR, and recording at 2560x1440 120hz. I used this video to get my settings adjusted:

Something interesting I have noticed with my recordings is that if I view my 2560x1440 videos at fullscreen using VLC or potplayer, I get weird frame drops and stutter in the video, but if I do not fullscreen the video, it is smooth. It also shows smooth after uploading to youtube at 1080p60. Also, watching youtube 4K videos doesn't cause the stutter at fullscreen either so I am not sure what is going on there.

Edit:
Also, I got that Encoding Overloaded error for the first time yesterday but I think it only appeared right at the end of my recording as I alt-tabbed out of the game. I went through the recording and did not notice any thing weird.

Disabling the preview window helped a bit too for me.
 
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