slight stutter when recording gamplay

[Peterthecat1]

we are getting into recording gameplay... we are using OBS to record gameplay and we have a 2 monitor setup with recording on the second monitor and gameplay on the primary monitor with the second monitor active and playing the game the fps drops to +/- 100(from close to 200) and there is a sl stutter to the game(really only noticeable cuz the regular game play is very smooth).. if we shut down the monitor the gameplay still has a fps(less tho) drop but the stutter goes away... while our system is not over the top I see threads with people using much lesser systems to great effect..any ideas why this is occurring

MSI Z97 Krait MB
i7 4790K
HYPER X DDR3 1866 16GB
EVGA GTX980Ti Classified
samsung SSD 480GB
seagate 4tb recording HDD
primary monitor asus 27" 1080p 144Mhz (display port)
sec monitor ben-q 24" 1080p 60Mhz (HDMI)

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

Are you running the game in fullscreen or borderless/windowed mode? I get stutter in certain games if I don't run them in fullscreen mode. Is there a reason you don't use shadowplay or have you just got used to OBS?

 

[Peterthecat1]

Are you running the game in fullscreen or borderless/windowed mode? I get stutter in certain games if I don't run them in fullscreen mode. Is there a reason you don't use shadowplay or have you just got used to OBS?

Thank you for taking the time to help us out!!! the game is csgo and its played thru steam and it plays perfectly by it self(fullscreen)(200fps) and when the second monitor is off it does ok as well even when recording(100fps)...the problem occurs when the second monitor is on and we are recording....we record to a different drive from the game drive and I think the 100fps produced by the GPU should enable good gameplay without stutter but it does??? we are new to game recording and have been following advice from those that post videos on these things and friends who are doing it and tho we have matched settings from them and videos we have the problem and they do not... I think our system should be able to do what we are asking with out much trouble??? I dont think its a hardware problem and I find it very odd that the second monitor on seems to cause the problem??? I did see one video where a person showed the difference between recording to a reg HDD and then a SSD and this problem went away but if that were the case shouldnt it do it whenever we record???

questions ???
do we have a hardware bottleneck some where??
why the issue with the second monitor is on??
second monitor is lesser than primary and is hdmi should we change to dvi ???
with 100fps the game should smoke so why the dam stutter on the gameplay side????

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

Are you running the game in fullscreen or borderless/windowed mode? I get stutter in certain games if I don't run them in fullscreen mode. Is there a reason you don't use shadowplay or have you just got used to OBS?

Thank you for taking the time to help us out!!! the game is csgo and its played thru steam and it plays perfectly by it self(fullscreen)(200fps) and when the second monitor is off it does ok as well even when recording(100fps)...the problem occurs when the second monitor is on and we are recording....we record to a different drive from the game drive and I think the 100fps produced by the GPU should enable good gameplay without stutter but it does??? we are new to game recording and have been following advice from those that post videos on these things and friends who are doing it and tho we have matched settings from them and videos we have the problem and they do not... I think our system should be able to do what we are asking with out much trouble??? I dont think its a hardware problem and I find it very odd that the second monitor on seems to cause the problem??? I did see one video where a person showed the difference between recording to a reg HDD and then a SSD and this problem went away but if that were the case shouldnt it do it whenever we record???

questions ???
do we have a hardware bottleneck some where??
why the issue with the second monitor is on??
second monitor is lesser than primary and is hdmi should we change to dvi ???
with 100fps the game should smoke so why the dam stutter on the gameplay side????

As your monitors are different refresh rates, I am thinking that maybe windows is having some issues with that, I have heard of quite a few people having issues when their monitors are different resolutions/refresh rates. Would you be able to try your primary monitor at 60hz so it matches the secondary as a test? You don't have a bottleneck, you have a very strong system. The other questions could be to do with the refresh rate difference at this moment so give that a try and let me know how that goes

 

[Peterthecat1]

Are you running the game in fullscreen or borderless/windowed mode? I get stutter in certain games if I don't run them in fullscreen mode. Is there a reason you don't use shadowplay or have you just got used to OBS?

Thank you for taking the time to help us out!!! the game is csgo and its played thru steam and it plays perfectly by it self(fullscreen)(200fps) and when the second monitor is off it does ok as well even when recording(100fps)...the problem occurs when the second monitor is on and we are recording....we record to a different drive from the game drive and I think the 100fps produced by the GPU should enable good gameplay without stutter but it does??? we are new to game recording and have been following advice from those that post videos on these things and friends who are doing it and tho we have matched settings from them and videos we have the problem and they do not... I think our system should be able to do what we are asking with out much trouble??? I dont think its a hardware problem and I find it very odd that the second monitor on seems to cause the problem??? I did see one video where a person showed the difference between recording to a reg HDD and then a SSD and this problem went away but if that were the case shouldnt it do it whenever we record???

questions ???
do we have a hardware bottleneck some where??
why the issue with the second monitor is on??
second monitor is lesser than primary and is hdmi should we change to dvi ???
with 100fps the game should smoke so why the dam stutter on the gameplay side????

As your monitors are different refresh rates, I am thinking that maybe windows is having some issues with that, I have heard of quite a few people having issues when their monitors are different resolutions/refresh rates. Would you be able to try your primary monitor at 60hz so it matches the secondary as a test? You don't have a bottleneck, you have a very strong system. The other questions could be to do with the refresh rate difference at this moment so give that a try and let me know how that goes

ok so that seemed to work!! yeah so now the question would was it a balance issue or is it the 144 setting that is the problem...ie if we got another 144 monitor so the two would balance at the higher settings would you expect that to be ok or is it trying to record at the higher setting of 144mhz refresh rate that is the issue...cuz gameplay is much nicer at the higher refresh rate

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

Are you running the game in fullscreen or borderless/windowed mode? I get stutter in certain games if I don't run them in fullscreen mode. Is there a reason you don't use shadowplay or have you just got used to OBS?

Thank you for taking the time to help us out!!! the game is csgo and its played thru steam and it plays perfectly by it self(fullscreen)(200fps) and when the second monitor is off it does ok as well even when recording(100fps)...the problem occurs when the second monitor is on and we are recording....we record to a different drive from the game drive and I think the 100fps produced by the GPU should enable good gameplay without stutter but it does??? we are new to game recording and have been following advice from those that post videos on these things and friends who are doing it and tho we have matched settings from them and videos we have the problem and they do not... I think our system should be able to do what we are asking with out much trouble??? I dont think its a hardware problem and I find it very odd that the second monitor on seems to cause the problem??? I did see one video where a person showed the difference between recording to a reg HDD and then a SSD and this problem went away but if that were the case shouldnt it do it whenever we record???

questions ???
do we have a hardware bottleneck some where??
why the issue with the second monitor is on??
second monitor is lesser than primary and is hdmi should we change to dvi ???
with 100fps the game should smoke so why the dam stutter on the gameplay side????

As your monitors are different refresh rates, I am thinking that maybe windows is having some issues with that, I have heard of quite a few people having issues when their monitors are different resolutions/refresh rates. Would you be able to try your primary monitor at 60hz so it matches the secondary as a test? You don't have a bottleneck, you have a very strong system. The other questions could be to do with the refresh rate difference at this moment so give that a try and let me know how that goes

ok so that seemed to work!! yeah so now the question would was it a balance issue or is it the 144 setting that is the problem...ie if we got another 144 monitor so the two would balance at the higher settings would you expect that to be ok or is it trying to record at the higher setting of 144mhz refresh rate that is the issue...cuz gameplay is much nicer at the higher refresh rate

I think it is because they are different refresh rates, although I am not 100% sure, I agree, 144hz is so much nicer 😀

 

[Peterthecat1]

Are you running the game in fullscreen or borderless/windowed mode? I get stutter in certain games if I don't run them in fullscreen mode. Is there a reason you don't use shadowplay or have you just got used to OBS?

Thank you for taking the time to help us out!!! the game is csgo and its played thru steam and it plays perfectly by it self(fullscreen)(200fps) and when the second monitor is off it does ok as well even when recording(100fps)...the problem occurs when the second monitor is on and we are recording....we record to a different drive from the game drive and I think the 100fps produced by the GPU should enable good gameplay without stutter but it does??? we are new to game recording and have been following advice from those that post videos on these things and friends who are doing it and tho we have matched settings from them and videos we have the problem and they do not... I think our system should be able to do what we are asking with out much trouble??? I dont think its a hardware problem and I find it very odd that the second monitor on seems to cause the problem??? I did see one video where a person showed the difference between recording to a reg HDD and then a SSD and this problem went away but if that were the case shouldnt it do it whenever we record???

questions ???
do we have a hardware bottleneck some where??
why the issue with the second monitor is on??
second monitor is lesser than primary and is hdmi should we change to dvi ???
with 100fps the game should smoke so why the dam stutter on the gameplay side????

As your monitors are different refresh rates, I am thinking that maybe windows is having some issues with that, I have heard of quite a few people having issues when their monitors are different resolutions/refresh rates. Would you be able to try your primary monitor at 60hz so it matches the secondary as a test? You don't have a bottleneck, you have a very strong system. The other questions could be to do with the refresh rate difference at this moment so give that a try and let me know how that goes

ok so that seemed to work!! yeah so now the question would was it a balance issue or is it the 144 setting that is the problem...ie if we got another 144 monitor so the two would balance at the higher settings would you expect that to be ok or is it trying to record at the higher setting of 144mhz refresh rate that is the issue...cuz gameplay is much nicer at the higher refresh rate

I think it is because they are different refresh rates, although I am not 100% sure, I agree, 144hz is so much nicer 😀

thanks for your time and patience we will get a second 144 monitor and test our theories...one last bit in the case of a 144 monitor I have seen some remarks that only a Display Port is capable of carrying the 144 "signal" so if we got the new monitor we would need a DP cable and not use the others correct???(not sure but current 144 monitor required this as well I think, I know (the recording is my sons project) my current monitor is a AOC ultrawide 34" and it needed the DP cable for the 1440p resolution)

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

Are you running the game in fullscreen or borderless/windowed mode? I get stutter in certain games if I don't run them in fullscreen mode. Is there a reason you don't use shadowplay or have you just got used to OBS?

Thank you for taking the time to help us out!!! the game is csgo and its played thru steam and it plays perfectly by it self(fullscreen)(200fps) and when the second monitor is off it does ok as well even when recording(100fps)...the problem occurs when the second monitor is on and we are recording....we record to a different drive from the game drive and I think the 100fps produced by the GPU should enable good gameplay without stutter but it does??? we are new to game recording and have been following advice from those that post videos on these things and friends who are doing it and tho we have matched settings from them and videos we have the problem and they do not... I think our system should be able to do what we are asking with out much trouble??? I dont think its a hardware problem and I find it very odd that the second monitor on seems to cause the problem??? I did see one video where a person showed the difference between recording to a reg HDD and then a SSD and this problem went away but if that were the case shouldnt it do it whenever we record???

questions ???
do we have a hardware bottleneck some where??
why the issue with the second monitor is on??
second monitor is lesser than primary and is hdmi should we change to dvi ???
with 100fps the game should smoke so why the dam stutter on the gameplay side????

As your monitors are different refresh rates, I am thinking that maybe windows is having some issues with that, I have heard of quite a few people having issues when their monitors are different resolutions/refresh rates. Would you be able to try your primary monitor at 60hz so it matches the secondary as a test? You don't have a bottleneck, you have a very strong system. The other questions could be to do with the refresh rate difference at this moment so give that a try and let me know how that goes

ok so that seemed to work!! yeah so now the question would was it a balance issue or is it the 144 setting that is the problem...ie if we got another 144 monitor so the two would balance at the higher settings would you expect that to be ok or is it trying to record at the higher setting of 144mhz refresh rate that is the issue...cuz gameplay is much nicer at the higher refresh rate

I think it is because they are different refresh rates, although I am not 100% sure, I agree, 144hz is so much nicer 😀

thanks for your time and patience we will get a second 144 monitor and test our theories...one last bit in the case of a 144 monitor I have seen some remarks that only a Display Port is capable of carrying the 144 "signal" so if we got the new monitor we would need a DP cable and not use the others correct???(not sure but current 144 monitor required this as well I think, I know (the recording is my sons project) my current monitor is a AOC ultrawide 34" and it needed the DP cable for the 1440p resolution)

Both Display port and DVI Dual Link (not single link) can carry 144Hz so you should be fine as long as you have a spare Dual Link DVI slot