OBS Issue -- Choppy/Low Frames

erik615 · Oct 21, 2017

Hello Everyone,

I am a Youtuber/Streamer for a living, and I have been using OBS flawlessly up until about a week ago. Now, my streams AND recordings are super choppy and not-usable. More details:

1 Week Ago:

60FPS
1080p
Could record and stream at the same time.

I reformatted my (C) Drive at the beginning of the week (failed ubuntu GRUB uninstall), and now I get maybe just under 7FPS on the recording/Stream and about 15FPS in-game during recording/streaming. I have installed OBS to the same spot it was originally, and the output folder for videos has NEVER changed.

Cant record or stream, not even individually. It even drops my Frames In-Game. My Recordings go to the (D) Drive, as I use that for media so I don't overload my C Drive.

PC SPECS:

i5-4670k @3.4Ghz
MSI 1080 GTX
16gb Ram
Asus ZB7-A
125gb SSD (My Windows/OBS sits there) (CDrive)
1TB HDD (D Drive)
1TB HDD (E Drive)
250GB HDD (F Drive).

James Mason · Oct 22, 2017

Did you reinstall all your motherboard drivers?
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z87A/HelpDesk_Download/

Did you setup OBS correctly again?
here's how to set it up for local recordings, as well as use multiple audio tracks if you desire.
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-high-quality-recording-and-multiple-audio-tracks.221/

Did you reinstall your GPU drivers?
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Your GPU drivers MAY have gotten overwritten and broken by windows update possibly.

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

erik615 · Oct 22, 2017

James Mason :

Did you reinstall all your motherboard drivers?
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z87A/HelpDesk_Download/

Did you setup OBS correctly again?
here's how to set it up for local recordings, as well as use multiple audio tracks if you desire.
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-high-quality-recording-and-multiple-audio-tracks.221/

Did you reinstall your GPU drivers?
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Your GPU drivers MAY have gotten overwritten and broken by windows update possibly.

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

I have done the above, and it is still super choppy. No real improvement. My BiOS DID in fact need to be updated (and was done so successfully), I tried all the OBS settings on that link, and reinstalled/clean installed all GPU Drivers as instructed. :/

erik615 · Oct 22, 2017

James Mason :

Did you reinstall all your motherboard drivers?
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z87A/HelpDesk_Download/

Did you setup OBS correctly again?
here's how to set it up for local recordings, as well as use multiple audio tracks if you desire.
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-high-quality-recording-and-multiple-audio-tracks.221/

Did you reinstall your GPU drivers?
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Your GPU drivers MAY have gotten overwritten and broken by windows update possibly.

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

I fixed it. It was the SILLIEST setting. In my output, it was "Recording Quality: Same as Stream", I had to switch it to "Recording Quality: Seamless/Super High". What a ridiculous thing.

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