OBS vs Bandicam

[techmot]

Anyone know why my version of OBS screen recorder produces alot of stuttering?. Using the trial version of Bandicam and set to a high quality, it produces no stuttering or frame lagging at all. I've even set the resolution lower in OBS and still produces a poor screen capture output. Settings in Bandicam are:
FPS: 25
Quality 80
Codec: MPEG4

Audio bitrate: 192
Audio codec: AAC

The same settings can be set in OBS but all I get is noticeable lagging or stuttering.

[El Heggunte]

The same settings can be set in OBS but all I get is noticeable lagging or stuttering.

"same settings" Not exactly, granted.

OBS is complicated (AND bloated). If you make it use x264, be sure you choose the fastest settings, performance-wise;
for example, I-frames only, or at least no B-frames at all, only 2 or 3 reference frames, whatever.

[techmot]

The same settings can be set in OBS but all I get is noticeable lagging or stuttering.

"same settings" Not exactly, granted.

OBS is complicated (AND bloated). If you make it use x264, be sure you choose the fastest settings, performance-wise;
for example, I-frames only, or at least no B-frames at all, only 2 or 3 reference frames, whatever.

I've got the rate control set at CRF
CRF: 23
Encoder: x264
Rescale output: 1920x1080
Encoding format: MKV (I've heard that this is recommended)

Can't see any I frames or B frames, no idea what that is.

I think that using the resolution output set my processor can't cope with it for some reason.

I agree it is a complicated programme.

[jagabo]

There's a 100 fold difference in encoding speed between x264's fastest ("ultrafast") and slowest ("placebo") presets. The two programs are probably using different presets.