Looking for some advice for recording some of our DayZ Adventures.

[{CQF} Asus 1]

I've currently had the urge to begin recording some of my gameplay for entertainment purposes. I've tired quite a few programs like the basic Fraps, Bandicam, etc. Although im running into an "FPS Issue" while doing so.

I see many youtube videos where people record and its a smooth no shutter record. I'm looking to do that. From what i've read it always a "slow computer issue" yet my computer is Top Line.

Here are It's Specs:

ASUS Crosshair Formula IV

AMD x6 1090t Black Edition CPU: Overclocked @ 4GHz

2x AMD Radeon 6950 2GB (4GB Total)(In Crossfire)

Thermaltake 850-Watt PSU

16 GB G.Skill 1333mhz (Overclocked to 1425Mhz)

OCZ Vertex 3 120gb SDD

1 TB HDD Western Digital Black Edition 7200 RPM

My Machine can run anything and render to it's best of abilities. Yet for some reason when record my FPS drops to ~10-20. While i play back the video it's very choppy and shuttery.

Side Notes: As for Resolutions I was running the game at 5040x1050 (3 Monitors in Eyefinity). I thought that might have been the issue so i turned it down to 1920x1080.

Only saw the FPS While Recording went up about 5 fps for a total of ~15-25 fps while recording.

Anyone got any ideas? or Any thing i can do to better the video quality ?

Thanks again!

[Bunster 7]

Check ur CPU power when u hit record.

Close background Apps to kill CPU load

Turn down ingame shadows :D

[bshth 1]

I am not an expert on this, but I heard you need to have a seperate harddrive that is not running windows/arma2 and record the footage in that harddrive to reduce fps issue

[{CQF} Asus 1]

Check ur CPU power when u hit record.

Close background Apps to kill CPU load

Turn down ingame shadows :D

Already Done that. Thank you! :D

I am not an expert on this, but I heard you need to have a seperate harddrive that is not running windows/arma2 and record the footage in that harddrive to reduce fps issue

The One 1Tb only holds movies, and games. Arma2 However is installed on the SDD

[Crowding 11]

I'm not an expert, although I did start recording my gameplay a few weeks back, and more dedicated recording a few days back.

Key points are:

- Properly set up recording program (Fraps doesn't take a lot of settings, it eats ram; try Dxtory, it's complicated but very good.)

- Use a different hard disk with enough space. If you use the same HDD it has to read and write too much on the same disk and that will cost you.

Also make sure you don't record to a USB HDD (external). They're slow as hell.

http://dxtory.com/v2-home-en.html - Dxtory

YouTube setup video (I don't know if this is the one I used, but you really want a good explanation, try looking around a bit)

Keep in mind that you eat space quite rapidly. I record 30fps and 75% screen size with the H.264 codec on like 10min/GB I think.

Let me know if that helped.

EDIT: Follow the guide SIMJEDI posted, it's probably better.

Edited July 18, 2012 by Crowding

[simjedi 43]

DXTory does a very nice job. Follow this guide to the letter for minimal loss of fps:

GUIDE

[{CQF} Asus 1]

DXTory does a very nice job. Follow this guide to the letter for minimal loss of fps:

GUIDE

I'm not an expert, although I did start recording my gameplay a few weeks back, and more dedicated recording a few days back.

Key points are:

- Properly set up recording program (Fraps doesn't take a lot of settings, it eats ram; try Dxtory, it's complicated but very good.)

- Use a different hard disk with enough space. If you use the same HDD it has to read and write too much on the same disk and that will cost you.

Also make sure you don't record to a USB HDD (external). They're slow as hell.

http://dxtory.com/v2-home-en.html - Dxtory

YouTube setup video (I don't know if this is the one I used, but you really want a good explanation, try looking around a bit)

Keep in mind that you eat space quite rapidly. I record 30fps and 75% screen size with the H.264 codec on like 10min/GB I think.

Let me know if that helped.

EDIT: Follow the guide SIMJEDI posted, it's probably better.

Thank you so much! I will be trying these when i get home. Hopefully everything will go well.

Thanks again!