What software is best for recordings for Youtube?

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I just tried out recording my first video yesterday and the quality of it turned out like crap and the game lagged pretty bad during gameplay, when i stop the recording the lag went away, but my keyboard was only telling me that i was using around 60-70% of my cpu... and much less of my GPU... later on i found that my keyboard is giving me false readings, because in CPUz i can clearly see im peaking out between 92-100% cpu usage on all cores during recording of the game, but once i stop the recording i drop down to around 30-40% only....thinking maybe the software im using is not optimized very well.. its called open broadcaster software, found it after watching a video on youtube on doing gameplay recordings and streaming...

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Operating System: Windows 10 Professional Edition build 10240 (64-bit)
Motherboard Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Motherboard Model: Z77-DS3H
Motherboard Version: x.x
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Version: BIOS Date: 09/19/12 18:20:20 Ver: 04.06.05
BIOS Release Date: 2012/09/19

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Codename: Ivy Bridge
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Multiplier: 34.0X
Bus Speed: 100.1 MHz
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L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
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L3 Cache: 6 MB

Memory Information:
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XMP: 1.65V, Clk: 800.0MHz, Timings 9-9-9-27

Drive Information:
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Drive Size: 465GB
Partitions: C:
Interface Type: ATA
Bytes per Sector: 512
RPM: Solid State

Physical Drive 2: OCZ-VERTEX3 ATA Device
Drive Size: 111GB
Partitions: E: F:
Interface Type: ATA
Bytes per Sector: 512
RPM: Solid State

Optical Drive 1: ATAPI iHAS424 B ATA Device
Optical Drive 2:

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Video Adapters:
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SLI/Crossfire Enabled: No
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DAC Type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Memory: 8192MB
Video BIOS: 113-2E3240U-X4A
Driver Provider: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Driver Version: 15.300.1025.1001
Driver Date: 12-4-2015
Monitor 1: 1920x1080x32 60Hz (Primary monitor)
Monitor 2: 1440x900x32 60Hz

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Description: CPU 0 core 3
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Temperature: 30.00C
Description: GPU 0 (AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390 Series)
Temperature: 53.00C

 
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They don't.

Also when I say large videos, I mean like 4GBs for 1 min of video, as opposed to a small video that's like 3.5GBs for 27mins.
OBS works fine, you just didn't set it up right:
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/
start at the recommended crf 15, and lower it for higher quality and higher file size recordings, or raise it to like 20 for easier system load and smaller file sizes.
 

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So which end uses more cpu %? i think that is my issue on the lagging...i just did the setting and placed it on 15 for testing on next video, but i want to make sure i understand correctly, i dont really care about the file size, as i have plenty of space on my SSD's and have a very high quality GPU.. but it seems that my CPU is the bottleneck..

I alos have Fios 100, so uploading large videos doesnt take but a few minutes..
 
OBS won't use your GPU at all, unless you have an Nvidia GPU and use the Nvidia NVENC encoder.

Some games are more demanding and cause conflicts with the recording software, you can use task manager to see if manually assigning CPU core affinity helps. If it does help, you'll need a better task manager like ProcessLasso to permanently assign core affinities.
 

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No i have an R9 390, does amd have their own encoder for it?
 

They don't.

Also when I say large videos, I mean like 4GBs for 1 min of video, as opposed to a small video that's like 3.5GBs for 27mins.
 
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