Gameplay Recording Questions

[ELITEFIREnICE]

Hello! So I just bought a new laptop for gaming. Yes I know you should get a desktop but I'm on the move too much to lug one around. Anyway, when I run skyrim on high settings and with 30 mods installed it works beautifully. But as soon as I tried recording with Fraps or Dxtory my FPS went to 20's. Why is this? GPU? Hard Drive? Processor? I'm not very tech savvy so forgive me. But I do know that I have

 

1TB hard drive

Intel core i7

GeForce 940m graphics card

 

Another thing is when I got "GeForce Experience" program and went under the "My Rig" tab, I had met all requirements for ShadowPlay except my GPU. However I thought I had read somewhere that mine was good enough? And finally my 2 questions are

1. How can I fix it?

2. Would a Hauppauge HD PVR Gaming 2 help?

Thanks and sorry for the length.

Edited August 18, 2015 by ELITEFIREnICE

[openthegate]

Hi there :-)

 

FPS drops while recording is normal, because Fraps and other recorders are resource hungry. To free up resources you may use a lighter recorder application and close all programs you don't need while gaming. Also disable all bling effects on desktop and keep your system minimalistic. This could fix your other problem as well.

Edited August 18, 2015 by openthegate

[ElmoTheMuppet]

Hi!

I just wanted to post a few options you can try that will utilize your hardware encoder on your gpu to reduce fps drop while recording gameplay.

 

Nvidia Shadowplay (Free, comes with bloatware)

-Geforce Experience is a bit buggy and causes instability for some systems and applications (should be improved in the coming year).

 

MSI Predator (Free, comes with gpu monitoring software)

-Included in MSI Afterburner. It can utilize the same encoder used by Shadowplay or Intel's quicksync. (If using an ENB, you may need to use the injector version)

 

OBS Beta (Free)

-This is the classic edition of OBS that includes Shadowplay's Nvenc and Intel's quicksync encoding. (Appears to work well with ENB wrapper in both Game Capture and Window Capture mode)

-Allows for live streaming.

-The OBS MP version is a rewritten version that supports platforms like Windows, Linux and Mac, but doesn't have hardware encoding yet. ENB works in Window Capture mode)

 

Bandicam (Free Trial)

- Similar to OBS

 

 

Since you have an i7, you may like the x264 encoding for high quality recordings with OBS Beta or MP.

Edited August 18, 2015 by ElmoTheMuppet

[ELITEFIREnICE]

Thank you for your help!