Pseudo1 0 Posted September 20, 2014 Hello. I recently discovered Nvidia Shadowplay which allows me to record gameplay without a significant frame rate drop. Now, my frame rate only doesn't drop if I don't travel long distances. For instance, I would be in berezino upon spawn in and not suffer any fps drops. If I try to maybe travel to another town , I can travel out of berezino for only a few minutes before I start getting fps lag. I am thinking this is due to my computer having to load the map as I'm running while at the same time recording gameplay but I an not completely sure. If this is the case, would recording to an external harddrive fix the problem or does dayz use the CPU to load the map?Thank you Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jfiles 439 Posted September 20, 2014 Hello. I recently discovered Nvidia Shadowplay which allows me to record gameplay without a significant frame rate drop. Now, my frame rate only doesn't drop if I don't travel long distances. For instance, I would be in berezino upon spawn in and not suffer any fps drops. If I try to maybe travel to another town , I can travel out of berezino for only a few minutes before I start getting fps lag. I am thinking this is due to my computer having to load the map as I'm running while at the same time recording gameplay but I an not completely sure. If this is the case, would recording to an external harddrive fix the problem or does dayz use the CPU to load the map?Thank youI would imagine a way to lessen the amount of lag is to change your terrain grid in config files slightly. I believe it loads less at a time so it wont be such a load. From what i am aware of. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Darkers 151 Posted September 21, 2014 Best bet is to either assing more cpu cores to the software recording, witch could have a reversed effect since dayz uses the cpu allot or lowering down the resolution / recording frame rate of your software. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
boneboys 7988 Posted September 21, 2014 What have you set your Shadow playtime to ?Try setting to Record only and see if that changes.You do not need to set to anything over 3 mins, when events start to happen 3 mins is enough and you can then go to direct recording. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mos1ey 6301 Posted September 21, 2014 (edited) Sounds like your hard drive might be a bit slow. Recording to an external drive won't help though as USB is much slower than SATA. Ideally I would buy a new hard drive but one thing that you could try is lowering your recording to 1280x720 and 30 FPS as that doesn't require anywhere close to as high a write speed as 1920x1080, 30 or 60 FPS. Edited September 21, 2014 by Mos1ey Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pseudo1 0 Posted September 21, 2014 Thank you all for your suggestions. I will try them out and report back later. And Mos1ey, I did some research and found out my 5400 rpm harddrive is really slow. Would buying an SSD and running Dayz off that allow my harddrive to only focus on recording? I would assume that although the harddrive is a slow 5400rpm, it shouldn't lag if it is only recording. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
