This is probably going to be the first of many dumb questions, so thanks in advance for your patience.

Currently I'm set up to stream and record with OBS Studio, using an elgato capture card to capture console gameplay and Wsplit as a timer. However, I've noticed that (for whatever reason) the gameplay footage seems to lag about a second and a half behind what 'should' be happening. Basically, when I start the game and timer at the same time, in the footage that streams/records it looks like the timer starts before the game does.

Is there any way to make the timer and gameplay sync up properly?

After spending years getting Cloud and Barrett to level 99 in the first reactor in Final Fantasy VII, I decided I wanted to try going fast.

I expect to have a lot of dumb questions so thanks in advance for your patience!