1. The Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling ("HAGS") feature in Windows is currently known to cause issues with OBS. We recommend disabling it via
this screen or
these instructions as a troubleshooting step. Be sure to restart your PC after disabling it.
2. Run OBS as Admin.
3. Your GPU is maxed out and OBS can't render scenes (2.5%) and encode frames (2.9%) fast enough. Running a game without vertical sync or a frame rate limiter will frequently cause performance issues with OBS because your GPU will be maxed out. OBS requires a little GPU to render your scene.
Enable Vsync or set a reasonable frame rate limit (120, 60, 30) that your GPU can handle without hitting 100% usage.
If that's not enough you may also need to turn down some of the video quality options in the game. If you are experiencing issues in general while using OBS, your GPU may be overloaded for the settings you are trying to use.
Please check our guide for ideas why this may be happening, and steps you can take to correct it:
GPU Overload Issues. If you're recording a game, remove Display Capture and use Game or Window Capture.
This appears to be a feature of OBS 33
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases
33.0 Changes
- Added a check for encoders being missing when loading a profile [derrod] (#11340)
