Slight blurriness when recording in OBS studio

[Unsounded]

Hey

So recently ive been trying to record with OBS studio again but for some reason i always get some minor quality loss when i look at the recording afterwards everything is just a tiny bit blurry but that loss of perfect sharpness really irritates me.

So i wanted to ask what the ideal settings would be to record in for me according to the people here.

PC specs according to speccy:

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Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 6600K @ 3.50GHz 28 °C
Skylake 14nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1066MHz (14-14-14-35)
Motherboard
MSI Z170A PC MATE (MS-7971) (U3E1) 37 °C
Graphics
PL2788H (1920x1080@60Hz)
3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (Gigabyte) 57 °C
Storage
111GB Western Digital WDC WDS120G1G0B-00RC30 (SSD) 38 °C
931GB Seagate ST1000DM010-2EP102 (SATA) 33 °C
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSD1
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

Screenshot of the game vs how it looks in my recording :

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I hope someone here can tell me what i might be doing wrong. Thanks in advance

 

[nukemaster]

It would appear you are recording at 1280x720(720p) instead of 1920 x 1080(1080p). You will almost always have some loss from compression as well, but this seems resolution related as well.

Top show this I took your in game portion and scaled it down to 720p and them back up. It is similar, but not exactly the same. This is still my best guess.

 

[Unsounded]

Part of the blurryness seems to be when i fullscreen anyway in the video tab of OBS Studio the output was set to scale down to 720 if i'm seeing this right is that what you mean?

Also what rate controll and bitrate should i be using for recording? I have it set to CBR at 2500 atm.

 

[profoundnoah]

That's pretty low when it comes to bitrate. I would look at the resolution, but also try it with a MUCH higher bitrate (I use upwards of 40,000 on certain games).

 

[Unsounded]

2500 CBR is the recommend rate for streaming so that is what i was using

 

[TerryLaze]

For me it just seems as if the video player adds some anti aliasing to get rid of jagged edges. (and color correction maybe, I don't have much of an eye for such things)
You can look for guides on video players and how to configure them to not apply any filter at all so you can then check the actual quality.
Uploading your file to youtube and the likes will cause quality loss anyway so you are making your self miserable for nothing.

 

[Unsounded]

I followed this video if anyone comes upon this later with the same problem and i think it is as good as it is going to get now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4TfelXO5yg thanks for the help lads.

 

[Unsounded]

Recording at 1080p 60fps even when it's only roblox stuff really makes my computer sweat but it mostly seems to work out. Need to get the ideal settings for 720p 30fps too tho.

 

[nukemaster]

720p 30 fps will not look as good, but will greatly reduce the bandwidth required for a stream. In your screen the softness removes allot of jagged edges(or you had AA on in the video and not in your other game screen)

I do not do the streaming thing, Does your software allow you to make the video card deal with the encoding? It is much more easy on the system(video card has a mp4 encoder built in), but may not look as good as cpu based encoding.