CommandT Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Hey folks, My simple questions - Is there a way of recording my on screen game footage as it happens in such a way that when I play back the recording it will be exactly the same in terms of fps/ smoothness as my actual real-time game? I've tried both OBS and Shadowplay and in both cases I seem to occasionally have a drop in fps during the playback. When I actually do the recording to begin with it's perfectly smooth. But during playback occasionally there's a stutter or a drop in fps. I don't get why!! How can it record bits of stuttering when I experienced none during the recording? Is there a solution here? Around 12 years ago I used to use Fraps I think to record on screen footage in Flaming Cliffs... had no issue at all back then! If it makes any difference my specs are: 4k screen 38" screen Ryzen 9 3950X Nvidia 2080 Super 64GB RAM Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C3PO Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 What disk do you have? Your specs above should be ample to stream (I could stream 4k60fps with my 1080GTX even) without problem. Try to stream to an SSD / M.2 drive. My settings with new system are 4k 60FPS @ 80Mbps. to M.2 drive For the old system, 1440p 60fps @ 50Mbps ... zero issues to SSD drive. Now: Water-cooled Ryzen 5800X + 32GB DDR 4 3200 RAM + EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra 24 GB + Reverb G2 + Add-on PCI-e 3.1 card + 2x1TB Corsair M.2 4900/4200 + TM HOTAS Warthog + TM TPR Pendular Rudder 'Engaged Defensive' YouTube Channel Modules: F/A-18C / AV-8B / F-16 / F-15E / F-4E (when it lands) / Persian Gulf / Syria / Nevada / Sinai / South Atlantic Backup: Water-cooled i7 6700K @ 4.5GHz + 32GB DDR4 3200MHz + GTX 1080 8GB + 1TB M.2 1k drive & 250GB SSD drive 500MBps 4K 40" monitor + TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommandT Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 4 minutes ago, C3PO said: What disk do you have? Your specs above should be ample to stream (I could stream 4k60fps with my 1080GTX even) without problem. Try to stream to an SSD / M.2 drive. My settings with new system are 4k 60FPS @ 80Mbps. to M.2 drive For the old system, 1440p 60fps @ 50Mbps ... zero issues to SSD drive. Well I'm not streaming. I'm just trying to record on screen gameplay to edit later. I have an EVO 970 M.2 SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C3PO Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Sorry yes, meant recording rather than streaming (or rather streaming video to disk!) Run a speed check on your disk / update drivers / what are your settings in nVidia Share? Now: Water-cooled Ryzen 5800X + 32GB DDR 4 3200 RAM + EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra 24 GB + Reverb G2 + Add-on PCI-e 3.1 card + 2x1TB Corsair M.2 4900/4200 + TM HOTAS Warthog + TM TPR Pendular Rudder 'Engaged Defensive' YouTube Channel Modules: F/A-18C / AV-8B / F-16 / F-15E / F-4E (when it lands) / Persian Gulf / Syria / Nevada / Sinai / South Atlantic Backup: Water-cooled i7 6700K @ 4.5GHz + 32GB DDR4 3200MHz + GTX 1080 8GB + 1TB M.2 1k drive & 250GB SSD drive 500MBps 4K 40" monitor + TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommandT Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 1 hour ago, C3PO said: Sorry yes, meant recording rather than streaming (or rather streaming video to disk!) Run a speed check on your disk / update drivers / what are your settings in nVidia Share? Changed a few settings from a youtube shadowplay tutorial. Seems perfect now!! Sorry for the bother Thanks anyways! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C3PO Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 I did a comparison video for FPS here - amazed how good ShadowPlay is: Now: Water-cooled Ryzen 5800X + 32GB DDR 4 3200 RAM + EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra 24 GB + Reverb G2 + Add-on PCI-e 3.1 card + 2x1TB Corsair M.2 4900/4200 + TM HOTAS Warthog + TM TPR Pendular Rudder 'Engaged Defensive' YouTube Channel Modules: F/A-18C / AV-8B / F-16 / F-15E / F-4E (when it lands) / Persian Gulf / Syria / Nevada / Sinai / South Atlantic Backup: Water-cooled i7 6700K @ 4.5GHz + 32GB DDR4 3200MHz + GTX 1080 8GB + 1TB M.2 1k drive & 250GB SSD drive 500MBps 4K 40" monitor + TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reece146 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) It's unfortunate that AMD CPUs do not have an integrated GPU. On Intel you can tell OBS to use Intel QuickSync (iGPU) to capture and your discrete GPU (2080 Super) remains in use for DCS exclusively. I use this method all the time and there are zero frame drops. You could experiment with a secondary discrete GPU. Be mindful of what that does to the PCI channel allocation (check motherboard manual). Someone above mentioned an external capture box / card - those work too - are effectively just a discrete GPU with fancy software from a VAR. Edited March 31, 2021 by reece146 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommandT Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) Ah so I may have figured something out - it's not the track that is f'ed up. It might be windows media player that makes it run slow. What software do you guys use for playback of clips? Edited March 31, 2021 by CommandT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reece146 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Try VLC - it's the standard on Windows for testing streams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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