Camera Recording Lag

[zoob]

For some reason my game starts stuttering like crazy when I record the camera. I can normally reach 200+ fps on max settings, but then when I start the recording it keeps freezing and bringing it down to 30 then jumping back up.

Any fix?

[Burt]

I'm having the same issue here too, haven't been able to find much on it yet unfortunately.

[Seba]

same, im able to record like 10s straight and begins to stutters for like 4s, it affects the in game recorded video as well. I dont know if it has to do, but i was as well recording in obs

[Beth]

We've seen other players with similar issues, I've added it to our bug list so that the team can investigate.

[Bonoro]

Originally posted by Seba:

same, im able to record like 10s straight and begins to stutters for like 4s, it affects the in game recorded video as well. I dont know if it has to do, but i was as well recording in obs

I have the exact same Issue. I hope this is a game bug and not my pc

[ViseStatic]

I have the same issue. My friends with lesser hardware don't seem to have the problem, though.

PC Specs:
64GB of 3200MHz RAM
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3090
Intel i9-11900K
2TB SSD

[FreakTheScene]

Same issue on RTX 3070

[TEX]

I don't have any issues myself personally. If I may ask, what resolution are you playing the game in?

[ViseStatic]

Originally posted by TEX:

I don't have any issues myself personally. If I may ask, what resolution are you playing the game in?

I play the game in 4K, but it still does it on all the other resolutions.

[Grey Daze]

my entire game is like this.. i sincerely need to figure out why it's stuttering and lagging like this, i haven't even been able to play it.

[Kisai]

Just to point out the obvious again. The game uses FFMPEG in the background, using the vp9 software encoder. If you are playing the game at 4K, you are going to have a bad time as it will be invoking software rescaling.

Play the game at 1080p, it's not your GPU, it's how the game isn't utilizing the hardware video compression to record. Libvpx doesn't scale across cpu cores, the developers should have used h264. Or update ffmpeg to 7.0 which came out 5 days ago, which can parallelize ffmpeg in the way it's being used.

People who are more technical inclined may try replacing the 6 year old version of ffmpeg binary included with the game with the current version and see if that fixes the lag, or it might not even work.

[CumLord]

Originally posted by Kisai:

Just to point out the obvious again. The game uses FFMPEG in the background, using the vp9 software encoder. If you are playing the game at 4K, you are going to have a bad time as it will be invoking software rescaling.

Play the game at 1080p, it's not your GPU, it's how the game isn't utilizing the hardware video compression to record. Libvpx doesn't scale across cpu cores, the developers should have used h264. Or update ffmpeg to 7.0 which came out 5 days ago, which can parallelize ffmpeg in the way it's being used.

People who are more technical inclined may try replacing the 6 year old version of ffmpeg binary included with the game with the current version and see if that fixes the lag, or it might not even work.

Playing at 1080p still lagging

[Grey Daze]

Originally posted by CumLord:

Playing at 1080p still lagging

Check your gpu settings make sure you're not running it off an integrated card, update any drivers, turn off game bar and game mode, optimize your graphics settings (either globally or for content warning), set the game to "high priority" in task manager when playing (you'll have to do it every time u open it if it works.) lower your display resolution and turn on/off vsync depending on if it helps or hurts, sometimes limiting frames can help.

i still get lag jumps every once in a while but i was able to fix most of it by optimizing a lot of those settings i just listed above, it also helped improve a lot of my other games. u can find all of this on reddit and youtube to explain exactly how to do it.

[QURT]

same problem bro

[ScuffyPuffy]

Same problem when I record a video with the camera, I then have a still image
The longer the video, the longer the still image
Normally I get 200+ fps

[Omega7707]

Originally posted by Kisai:

Just to point out the obvious again. The game uses FFMPEG in the background, using the vp9 software encoder. If you are playing the game at 4K, you are going to have a bad time as it will be invoking software rescaling.

Play the game at 1080p, it's not your GPU, it's how the game isn't utilizing the hardware video compression to record. Libvpx doesn't scale across cpu cores, the developers should have used h264. Or update ffmpeg to 7.0 which came out 5 days ago, which can parallelize ffmpeg in the way it's being used.

People who are more technical inclined may try replacing the 6 year old version of ffmpeg binary included with the game with the current version and see if that fixes the lag, or it might not even work.

These are the parameters used by content warning if anyone is interested

".../ffmpeg.exe" -y -thread_queue_size 512 -r 24 -i ...\AppData\Local\Temp\rec\7285a594-79cd-4137-97b8-67fd266b968c\78e17962-5b22-472b-a98a-95d3eed6eefe/Test%04d.png -f f32le -ac 2 -ar 48000 -thread_queue_size 512 -i ...\AppData\Local\Temp\rec\7285a594-79cd-4137-97b8-67fd266b968c\78e17962-5b22-472b-a98a-95d3eed6eefe/audio.raw -f f32le -ac 1 -ar 48000 -thread_queue_size 512 -i ...\Local\Temp\rec\7285a594-79cd-4137-97b8-67fd266b968c\78e17962-5b22-472b-a98a-95d3eed6eefe/mic.raw -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -c:a libvorbis -ac 2 -ar 24000 -filter_complex amix=inputs=2 -c:v libvpx -cpu-used -5 -deadline realtime -pix_fmt yuv420p -speed 1 -preset ultrafast ...\AppData\Local\Temp\rec\7285a594-79cd-4137-97b8-67fd266b968c\78e17962-5b22-472b-a98a-95d3eed6eefe/output.webm