Question / Help In game recording quality poor!

[NiceAttitude]

Hello, I am having a serious issue with capturing game footage. When a load up a full screen game, OBS records menus and text fine, but when the actual game starts, the quality goes to complete crap. I followed the recording guide joe made and i also tried the basic profile settings, and nothing is working. Here is my log, I apologize if I am not correctly displaying it!

Spoiler

Physical Memory: 4095MB Total, 4095MB Free
stepping id: 9, model 10, family 6, type 0, extmodel 1, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 8, total cores 4
Windows Version: 6.2 Build 9200
Aero is Enabled
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Adapter 1
Video Adapter: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 2119376896
Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 2175524864
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Adapter 2
Video Adapter: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 0
Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 268435456
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1776x1000
Output resolution: 1776x1000
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Loading up D3D10...
Playback device Default
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Using desktop audio input: Speakers (2- High Definition Audio Device)
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Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (2- High Definition Audio Device)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 192
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Using Monitor Capture
Using graphics capture
Using custom x264 settings: "crf=18"
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 60
width: 1776, height: 1000
preset: veryfast
CBR: no
CFR: no
max bitrate: 2000
buffer size: 2000
quality: 14
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SharedTexCapture hooked
Total frames rendered: 7571, number of frames that lagged: 66 (0.87%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
=====Stream End=======================================================================

Profiler results:

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frame - [100%] [avg time: 5.735 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 91.9%] [unaccounted: 8.07%]
| scene->Preprocess - [2.2%] [avg time: 0.126 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
| video encoding and uploading - [89.7%] [avg time: 5.146 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 35%] [unaccounted: 54.8%]
| | CopyResource - [0.174%] [avg time: 0.01 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | conversion to 4:2:0 - [0.0523%] [avg time: 0.003 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | call to encoder - [34.7%] [avg time: 1.988 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | sending stuff out - [0.0697%] [avg time: 0.004 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
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[Lain]

The bitrate is too low for the resolution/FPS. If you're doing a local recording only, then you really just want to use something like 8000/8000 or more for your bitrate. 2000 isn't enough for that resolution/fps.

 

[paibox]

Well, you're using way too low a bit rate for it to look good. Did you intend to put "20000" instead of "2000"? Because that would make a lot more sense.

 

[NiceAttitude]

ah that is porbably the reason! Thank you all a lot! I will see if it works :)