OBS Recording, Very large file size, tips?

[SE@L]

With OBS I'm getting file sizes of 1.5gig per minute which is far too much.

If I use OBS in simple mode and select High Quality, Medium File size I get nice low file sizes, the video quality is very good but the recordings are constantly stuttering, you can even see it stuttering while its being recorded in OBS's preview window

Switching to advanced mode I've tried going up as high as 30 for CQ level and the files are still huge.

Video Encoder - AMD HW H.265 (HEVC)
Rate Control - CQP
CQ Level - 30
Preset - Quality
Video Encoder - AMD HW

All other games I record don't have this problem with the large file size it just appears to be Enshrouded.

[umop-apisdn]

This sounds more like an OBS issue than an Enshrouded issue. If nothing else, the users on the OBS forums will be more likely to be able to help you than the users on the Steam forums.

https://obsproject.com/forum/
https://obsproject.com/help

That being said, my immediate question would be: are you recording at 4K instead of 1080p? That could easily explain your file sizes being four times what you think they should be.

Also, you didn't mention any hardware specs; it could very well be that your PC is not beefy enough to run an unoptimized early-access game and record it at the level of quality you would like.

[SE@L]

Origineel geplaatst door umop-apisdn:

This sounds more like an OBS issue than an Enshrouded issue. If nothing else, the users on the OBS forums will be more likely to be able to help you than the users on the Steam forums.

https://obsproject.com/forum/
https://obsproject.com/help

That being said, my immediate question would be: are you recording at 4K instead of 1080p? That could easily explain your file sizes being four times what you think they should be.

Also, you didn't mention any hardware specs; it could very well be that your PC is not beefy enough to run an unoptimized early-access game and record it at the level of quality you would like.

Yea I thought I'd try here first to see if anyone else has run into a similar issue with the game.

Recordings are at 1440p.

Ryzen 7 7700X
Asus TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS
RX 6800XT Red Devil
32 GB RAM

It is strange because when I record fast paced FPS games they record at a fraction of the size that Enshrouded does, I may try lowering Enshrouded's graphics to see if it makes any difference first, then I'll have to head over to the OBS forums.

[umop-apisdn]

Those specs look decent; I'm actually running a similar rig (albeit with a 4070 Super and 64GB of DDR5). I would have difficulty believing your problem is related to CPU/GPU speed, unless something is actually broken... and you said it only occurs with this game.

Dredging up some years-ago streaming knowledge and taking a wild guess... how's your storage system?

Specifically, do you have a dedicated media drive? Is it an SSD? I noticed a huge improvement when I split my drives out to break up the I/O workload; I now run 3x NVME SSDs; one for OS, one for games, and one for media output (although I haven't streamed/recorded in quite a while).

A 25,000 kbps bitrate still sounds super high (might wanna double-check the "advanced settings"), but since you said you're getting more reasonable file sizes with the "simple settings", but with lots of stuttering... it occurs to me that the output pipeline could be an issue.

(edited to add: actually, it turns out 25,000 kbps is not absurdly high for 1440p60; only a little bit high. My memory is throwing 1080p60 numbers around (and now that I think about it, that might even have been 1080p30), which are closer to 5,000 kbps, but a bit of research seems to indicate that 18,000 kbps isn't at all unreasonable for 1440p60.)

Be sure to check your free space on the target drive, as well as making sure to trim/defrag your output drive (whether SSD or "spinning rust") on a regular basis; large deletes may look like they're instant, but there's still a bunch of garbage data cluttering up the file table and those holes can make things unpleasant for write throughput.

Like I said, I'm working on wisdom from several years back, so take this info with a grain or two of salt... but I've got nearly 40 years in various fields of the IT industry, so my guesses may not be completely out of left field.

(edited to add: it's also entirely possible that there's just a lot more happening in screenspace in Enshrouded; lots of particles, far view distances, and any number of other things can cause VBR recording algorithms (eg CQP) to give staggeringly large file sizes. Not sure how it'll react, but you might try a large-ish CBR and see what that does for your file sizes and video quality... and again, double-check those "advanced" settings; perhaps even reset them to defaults if you've done a lot of tweaking.)