First of all, wanna say I'm a complete newb when it comes to recording software.
Tried fraps back in the day, but it took too much space and i never had a separate HDD for recording so every recording looked choppy and my frame rates were awful.
I mostly play WoW, and a guildie suggested i try obs.
So far I'm very impressed by the small size of recordings i get.
However i have a frame rate problem which imo shouldn't happen cause my machine should be more than able to handle WoW + recording
My setup is:
MBO: MSI Z77A-G45
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K
RAM: 8Gb DDR3 (2x4Gb) G-SKILL Ripjaw @ 1333 Mhz
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Dirt 3 Edition (double fans) 2Gb GDDR5
GPU is slightly clocked and CPU is working on stock clock
WoW is installed on C disk which is an Samsung SSD (120Gb), and recordings are saved on F disk which is actually partition of my old C disk (just a regular Seagate 7200 rpm HDD)
In WoW my fps is locked to my screen refresh rate (60fps), and on ultra settings it goes down to probably 30-40 during intense events e.g. start of a boss fight, or AoE fests with huge amount of mobs and effects, however game is always playable and frame drop is barely noticable.
However as soon as i start recording my fps gets locked to 30 fps and then tanks to like 10-15 during those intense stages, with spikes that go even lower.
Which results in choppy recording and barely playable game (well it's playable but i hate playing like that)
I setup the encoding to 30 fps as a certain guide said, and Kb/s to 30000 (so cca 30mb per sec for good picture)
My machine should be good enough to record a video without tanking my fps so much (especially in WoW)
Any ideas why fps gets nuked so much?
Tried fraps back in the day, but it took too much space and i never had a separate HDD for recording so every recording looked choppy and my frame rates were awful.
I mostly play WoW, and a guildie suggested i try obs.
So far I'm very impressed by the small size of recordings i get.
However i have a frame rate problem which imo shouldn't happen cause my machine should be more than able to handle WoW + recording
My setup is:
MBO: MSI Z77A-G45
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K
RAM: 8Gb DDR3 (2x4Gb) G-SKILL Ripjaw @ 1333 Mhz
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Dirt 3 Edition (double fans) 2Gb GDDR5
GPU is slightly clocked and CPU is working on stock clock
WoW is installed on C disk which is an Samsung SSD (120Gb), and recordings are saved on F disk which is actually partition of my old C disk (just a regular Seagate 7200 rpm HDD)
In WoW my fps is locked to my screen refresh rate (60fps), and on ultra settings it goes down to probably 30-40 during intense events e.g. start of a boss fight, or AoE fests with huge amount of mobs and effects, however game is always playable and frame drop is barely noticable.
However as soon as i start recording my fps gets locked to 30 fps and then tanks to like 10-15 during those intense stages, with spikes that go even lower.
Which results in choppy recording and barely playable game (well it's playable but i hate playing like that)
I setup the encoding to 30 fps as a certain guide said, and Kb/s to 30000 (so cca 30mb per sec for good picture)
My machine should be good enough to record a video without tanking my fps so much (especially in WoW)
Any ideas why fps gets nuked so much?
