Recording CSGO with OBS causes stuttering

[Myth]

Been wanting to start record most of the games I play so I can have some highlight clips I can throw into a video and put on youtube, but anytime I start recording, csgo starts stuttering.

My specs are on my profile, obs settings below:

Recording 1920x1080 60 fps lanczos
Recording mic and hedaphones
Recording output settings: mp4, recording tracks 1 & 2, h264 amd encoder, preset Indistinguishable, quality preset Balanced, keyframe interval 2
Advanced: NV12, 709, YUV Full Color Range Process Priority Normal

Everything else is set to default

I'm playing on an SSD and recording to an HDD.

I'm about to get off so I might not reply, but I wanted to post this to see if anyone could help me out. Not sure how to fix the issue. It seemed slightly less noticeable when I set CSGO.exe to high priority, but I'd like to remove the stuttering all together if possible.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Record to the SSD; once they are edited and final, save them over to HDD and delete the stuff from SSD.

[Myth]

Bad_Motha님이 먼저 게시:

Record to the SSD; once they are edited and final, save them over to HDD and delete the stuff from SSD.

Don’t have enough space. I only have a 120gb HDD.

[GarytheLad]

Buy a bigger HDD then, surely.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Seriously; if you're gonna be recording above 720p/30FPS on PC, then you should really get like 2 to 3 really great drives. 500GB SSD + couple TB HDD and then a 3rd HDD larger then those 2 drives combined, for backup purposes.

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Mythical Beast님이 먼저 게시:

Bad_Motha님이 먼저 게시:

Record to the SSD; once they are edited and final, save them over to HDD and delete the stuff from SSD.

Don’t have enough space. I only have a 120gb HDD.

You mean SSD?

And this is why I tell everyone to buy a 500GB SSD. 120 and 250GB SSD's are worthless.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well the 120GB SSD is "ok" for its usage needs (OS + core apps)
But for anything you record too, that target drive better be dam fast, not a 5400rpm anything, or WD Green...

[Kurwa bober]

Try putting hdds in raid 0 if you have some spare hdds lying around, my 250gb seagates are chewing up everything i throw at them without any stuttering

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea that could also help; I put some old WD Raptor 10k 300GB drives back into usage with RAID-0 for similar purposes, and mainly because my other drives adding up to approx 30TB overall, are nearly full and I have no extra SSDs now.

So yea these Raptors will serve as a great target drive for recording videos with ridiculously good bitrates and the drives wont break a sweat due to the RAID. But I also using them as a temp dumping ground of sorts, so if they do die, no big deal.

[tacoshy]

depending on your RAM capacity and filesize you using it would also help to use RAM-Disk as a cache (why I will upgrade to 64GB RAM)

[Bad 💀 Motha]

tacoshy님이 먼저 게시:

depending on your RAM capacity and filesize you using it would also help to use RAM-Disk as a cache (why I will upgrade to 64GB RAM)

Thats not really going to help regarding things like video recording/streaming.

Maybe just having too little RAM + slow drives, sure; but needing something like RAM-Disk (which basically requires u having approx 24GB minimum RAM to really do it well enough to be worthy of using); hmm no, not a need.

[tacoshy]

Bad_Motha님이 먼저 게시:

tacoshy님이 먼저 게시:

depending on your RAM capacity and filesize you using it would also help to use RAM-Disk as a cache (why I will upgrade to 64GB RAM)

Thats not really going to help regarding things like video recording/streaming

oh right my mistake I landed in the wrong thread :D

[Myth]

Riley ♡♡♡님이 먼저 게시:

Mythical Beast님이 먼저 게시:

Don’t have enough space. I only have a 120gb HDD.

You mean SSD?

And this is why I tell everyone to buy a 500GB SSD. 120 and 250GB SSD's are worthless.

GarytheLad님이 먼저 게시:

Buy a bigger HDD then, surely.

I meant SSD yes. I have a 1tb hdd and 2tb hdd so I'm not really wanting to dish out $100+ for an SSD when I've got the space on my HDDs to record to.

I haven't had issues in the past so I'm not sure what's going on. Setting csgo.exe to high priority minimzes the stuttering, but it's still slightly noticeable so it just bothers me that I know it's there and I can't fix it.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

All that space doesn't matter if the drives are slow. Which will usually always be the case unless they are higher performance 7200rpm drives or better; like WD Black or Seagate FireCuda.

SSD is worth it and it will night/day difference for the entire system to have the OS run off the SSD. Then record video to the SSD due to its like 10X faster read & write then any typical SATA HDD. Then once you've recorded the video, take the time to edit it if need be, then save the final output version of video to a HDD. Then delete the video off the SSD to free up that space for more recording.

[Long Ago [Linux]]

What hardware do you have, CPU, GPU, and RAM? Some games like DiRT Rally assign tasks to specific cores or threads, so things that need to happen at same time are on different cores, and less busy things would share a core. Add recording software with trying to compress the video data and that throws a wrench in the works.

I tried OBS in Linux with my old i5 650 and GTX 1060, it could record a 720p window fine @ 30 fps, but 1080p full screen ended up more like a slide show. So I tried setting my screen resolution to 720p, but apparently the Nvidia driver up converts that to native screen resolution, because my HDTV still said it was receiving a 1080p signal, and OBS would drop way too many frames to be useful.

SimpleScreenRecorder was able to record 1080p @ 30 fps fine. But that was saving the video uncompressed and files were HUGE. So if you wanted to distribute that video, you would need to do post processing video compression.

You might consider an external HDMI recording device. But pay attention to details. Some can record directly to USB memory/drive or SD, but some require a separate computer or laptop to process, compress, and store the video data.

[Myth]

AnkleBiter Linux님이 먼저 게시:

What hardware do you have, CPU, GPU, and RAM? Some games like DiRT Rally assign tasks to specific cores or threads, so things that need to happen at same time are on different cores, and less busy things would share a core. Add recording software with trying to compress the video data and that throws a wrench in the works.

I tried OBS in Linux with my old i5 650 and GTX 1060, it could record a 720p window fine @ 30 fps, but 1080p full screen ended up more like a slide show. So I tried setting my screen resolution to 720p, but apparently the Nvidia driver up converts that to native screen resolution, because my HDTV still said it was receiving a 1080p signal, and OBS would drop way too many frames to be useful.

SimpleScreenRecorder was able to record 1080p @ 30 fps fine. But that was saving the video uncompressed and files were HUGE. So if you wanted to distribute that video, you would need to do post processing video compression.

You might consider an external HDMI recording device. But pay attention to details. Some can record directly to USB memory/drive or SD, but some require a separate computer or laptop to process, compress, and store the video data.

Thanks for the response. My specs are on my profile, as stated in the post so I’m not sure if you read the whole post. I managed to figure out the issue. It wasn’t hard drive related not eor less it was the fact that sometimes if I play games and a window of any app is open on my second monitor it causes csgo, and only csgo, to stutter. I tested it with multiple games and every other game was fine.