I have spent the last two weeks trying to figure out why every game I try to record has stutter and choppiness. I would like to share my findings here in the hopes of finally reaching some kind of answer or solution:
Here are two clips that show the issue, and I have found other very detailed posts in forums that also describe the issue that I am having verbatim which I can post here, and yet nobody has found a solution:
(starts 47 seconds into this video) (make sure it's HD so you can see it in 60FPS)
View: https://youtu.be/cYMuflcSatk
View: https://youtu.be/TS9fk8p-9jw
Other things worth noting:
Specs:
Please let me know any other information I can provide that would be helpful, and I thank you in advance for helping me with this issue that has me at my wit's end.
- I have tested with both OBS and Nvidia Geforce Experience. Both exhibit the stutter, regardless of what settings I change in their programs. This includes changing the encoding from a GPU oriented one to a CPU oriented one, and everything in between that is available in these programs. This has led me to assume that this is an issue with the computer itself, not these programs or their settings.
- OBS reports that there is not any encoding or rendering lag when recording. This leads me to assume that it is not a bottleneck or performance related issue with my PC. It's also worth noting that even outside of recording, even the preview itself stutters.
- This stutter happens even outside of running games, for example when I have tried to do a Display Capture of https://www.testufo.com/frameskipping, the issue still persisted here as well.
- To add to that, the nature of the stutter is interesting and peculiar, it is not a traditional lag with variable framerates, but more of what looks to be a sync-related stutter. I record at 60FPS and every time this happens, it feels as if the framerate is being dropped to 30, or in other words, as if the frames are being held for one frame too long. This has led me to assume that this might be a V-sync related issue, but nothing I change in the Nvidia Control Panel regarding this has fixed anything.
- The stutter is seemingly random to me, but in one test that I do, I can recreate it and have it persist at a specific location in-game every time. This makes me think it may or may not still be hardware related in some way.
- I have done brief testing with a capture card that I own and this stuttering does not occur when capturing from an external device.
Here are two clips that show the issue, and I have found other very detailed posts in forums that also describe the issue that I am having verbatim which I can post here, and yet nobody has found a solution:
(starts 47 seconds into this video) (make sure it's HD so you can see it in 60FPS)
Other things worth noting:
- I have 3 displays connected to my computer, including one that is 120hz G-sync capable, but these problems occur even when I disconnect the extra displays and only attempt on 1.
- I have uninstalled and reinstalled my GPU drivers and tried different versions from different points in time, and the problem continues.
- I have uninstalled and reinstalled clean versions of Windows, and tried multiple different versions of Windows 10, and 11, and the problem continues.
- I have swapped out the GPU for a different Nvidia GPU and the problem continues.
- I have recorded to both an SSD and an HDD. Although since the stuttering occurs even in preview window, I suspect that this is not related to the issue.
Specs:
- i9-10900K
- RTX 3080ti
- Z-590E Motherboard
- 64GB of 2133mhz DDR4 RAM
Please let me know any other information I can provide that would be helpful, and I thank you in advance for helping me with this issue that has me at my wit's end.