Question / Help I get horrible performance - but for OLD games.

[Caribou007]

My computer is barely powerful enough to stream but my framerate is just fine with a game like Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (2007), Starcraft 2 (2013), SimCity 4 (2003), Fallout: New Vegas (2010) or S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007).

But there are some ancient games that kill my framerate. For example, Half-Life 1 or any Goldsource engine game. And last night I tried Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom. They both play at 1-2 FPS when capturing with OBS. WCIV didn't capture with Game Capture mode although it is a DirectX game AFAIK, or Window mode - I had to use Monitor Capture. Goldsource games do work with Game Capture mode.

Operating System:
Windows 8 32-bit
Motherboard:
Asus A8V Deluxe Rev.2 (BIOS Beta 1018.002)
CPU Model:
AMD Dual-Core Opteron 180 @ 2.599GHz w/Zalman CNPS9500 LED fan @ 1850RPM
Video Card:
Sapphire HD3850 512MB AGP @ 708MHz Core/936MHz Memory w/Zalman VF700-AlCu, Silent Mode
RAM:
2GB (2x1GB) OCZ Platinum Dual-Channel PC3200 DDR400 @ 199.9MHz
ReadyBoost:
8GB USB flash drive
Storage:
250GB 7200RPM SATA 1.5Gbit/s
Sound card:
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Power Supply:
Antec EarthWatts 500W w/inert fan
Case:
Antec Sonata III w/2xScythe S-Flex SFF21E fans

 

[Sapiens]

Game capture is for use with DirectX 9/10/11 and OpenGL games only. WC4 is a DirectX 5 game so that's probably not going to work. Make sure your GoldSrc games are set to run in OpenGL and not Direct3D.

 

[Caribou007]

So why is the performance so horrible on these games that require like no system resources

 

[Fusioneko]

So why is the performance so horrible on these games that require like no system resources

Because gamecapture utilizing DirectX9/10/11 etc. Rather than utilizing hooks for Dx5/6/7/ Direct3d, etc. This means old renderers aren't properly supported. I would assume that this means that hooks this way, are ineffecient, and therefore waste many of the frames.

This is only an assumption.

 

[dodgepong]

If you're on Windows 7 and capturing with Monitor capture with Aero enabled (or really, Monitor capture at all) then you're going to have a bad time.