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Bad video of my game is super frustrating

Bad video of my game is super frustrating

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slayer__is
Senior Member
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10-09-2026, 10:50 PM
#1
For a long time I've been trying to start putting my videos up on YouTube, just for fun. But every single one ends up looking terrible and I give up on everything. I tried recording many different games like some that need high quality and others that don't like Rocket League, Fortnite, Jedi Fallen Order, and so on. Yet the quality is always with some loss which I could say I expected but after upload it looks really really bad. I watched a lot of tutorials and did all kinds of stuff like rendering video at 1440p and uploading at 1080p, messing around with recorder settings and so on. I've used streamlabs and especially shadowplay in the past but as everyone recommended I switched to obs (yet to try it). So here is what I want: just as lossless quality possible in 1080p. I have about 500gb free hard drive so storage isn't a problem that everyone mentions. My gaming PC has GTX 1660, i5-12500, and 16GB RAM at 3200mhz. What are your recommendations? (Also maybe I need to mention that I play nearly everything on 144hz so when I watch my own video in 60fps it kinda doesn't feel right, but maybe there is a setting for it also)
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slayer__is
10-09-2026, 10:50 PM #1

For a long time I've been trying to start putting my videos up on YouTube, just for fun. But every single one ends up looking terrible and I give up on everything. I tried recording many different games like some that need high quality and others that don't like Rocket League, Fortnite, Jedi Fallen Order, and so on. Yet the quality is always with some loss which I could say I expected but after upload it looks really really bad. I watched a lot of tutorials and did all kinds of stuff like rendering video at 1440p and uploading at 1080p, messing around with recorder settings and so on. I've used streamlabs and especially shadowplay in the past but as everyone recommended I switched to obs (yet to try it). So here is what I want: just as lossless quality possible in 1080p. I have about 500gb free hard drive so storage isn't a problem that everyone mentions. My gaming PC has GTX 1660, i5-12500, and 16GB RAM at 3200mhz. What are your recommendations? (Also maybe I need to mention that I play nearly everything on 144hz so when I watch my own video in 60fps it kinda doesn't feel right, but maybe there is a setting for it also)

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kingpie64
Member
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10-09-2026, 11:51 PM
#2
This old computer can't handle modern games or recordings well. To get better video, turn the game's frame rate setting to 30 or 60, and make sure your recording matches that. If you lower the in-game resolution to 720p, you will also have less quality for both playing and streaming. You won't be able to get really high-quality 1080p video at over 60 frames per second with this setup while using it all three ways.
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kingpie64
10-09-2026, 11:51 PM #2

This old computer can't handle modern games or recordings well. To get better video, turn the game's frame rate setting to 30 or 60, and make sure your recording matches that. If you lower the in-game resolution to 720p, you will also have less quality for both playing and streaming. You won't be able to get really high-quality 1080p video at over 60 frames per second with this setup while using it all three ways.

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fefe67140
Junior Member
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10-10-2026, 12:58 AM
#3
I made a bunch of 1080p videos using my old setup (a GTX 1050 Ti, slower CPU, and 16 GB RAM) with slightly older games running at 60 FPS, and they looked good enough. Then I bought a new rig to record The Witcher 3 after the next-gen update at 1440p. To keep things fast, I raised my bitrate to 30 Mbps. That made the video about 18 GB for just four minutes. If you are trying to hit that speed, an old hard drive might be too slow to write such a big file quickly. One way to solve this is using software like FFmpeg or Handbrake to lower the demand on your hardware; John mentioned it would help. Uploading to YouTube often hurts quality because they do their own processing to make things smaller and watchable, so if I had uploaded that 18 GB file straight away, I'd need a fast fiber optic connection just to see it right now. My plan is to try using the lowest possible bitrate or shrinking the video down as much as needed before uploading, and usually, the difference between my upload quality and what YouTube shows isn't too big. But if the video you record doesn't look good even when trying to make it at the best settings, that's your main problem right there.
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fefe67140
10-10-2026, 12:58 AM #3

I made a bunch of 1080p videos using my old setup (a GTX 1050 Ti, slower CPU, and 16 GB RAM) with slightly older games running at 60 FPS, and they looked good enough. Then I bought a new rig to record The Witcher 3 after the next-gen update at 1440p. To keep things fast, I raised my bitrate to 30 Mbps. That made the video about 18 GB for just four minutes. If you are trying to hit that speed, an old hard drive might be too slow to write such a big file quickly. One way to solve this is using software like FFmpeg or Handbrake to lower the demand on your hardware; John mentioned it would help. Uploading to YouTube often hurts quality because they do their own processing to make things smaller and watchable, so if I had uploaded that 18 GB file straight away, I'd need a fast fiber optic connection just to see it right now. My plan is to try using the lowest possible bitrate or shrinking the video down as much as needed before uploading, and usually, the difference between my upload quality and what YouTube shows isn't too big. But if the video you record doesn't look good even when trying to make it at the best settings, that's your main problem right there.