Low fps when recording at 1080dp

[Tanjant]

When recording at 1080dp MP4 or AVI I can't seem to get above 15-20fps on most games. Now I can get 50fps when recording at 720dp, and the games themselves are playing smoothly at 70-100fps, so I assume the bottleneck is with Action! itself not finding the resources it requires off my build.

Based on my specs below, can anyone see anything that is obviously holding me back? My current PC is an older build, but so far it hasn't met anything it can't handle!

CPU: i5-2500k 3.30ghz
Mobo: Asus P8P67 Pro (I'm aware this doesn't have QuickSync - could that be the issue?)
GFX: Nvidia GTX 570
RAM: Corsair Vengengce 2x4gb 1600mhz

Any feedback or suggestions are very much appreciated

[DIGG]

Well a suggestion I could make, which I'm not sure would necessarly help you is, at the very least when recording games, you need to use vertical sync. I'm specifyin VSYNC because with most monitors you would have 60hz, hence having 60fps veritcally synched, while capturing better quality images. You are "wasting" extra frames by going over 60, hence in a way your graphic card would use LESS ressources to render a better quality image.

Now your problem might be with your cpu usage, as the default Mirillis codec use that. Your GTX570 is getting old, if you had *any* GTX600+ cards you could use nVidia's NVENC codec (equivalent of ShadowPlay) instead of cpu power, that could help ALOT.

Another solution could be to capture on a SSD instead of a mechanical drive, although Action! certainly doesn't use as much hdd ressources as FRAPS (which is a hard drive destroyer when capturing large resolution/framerates).

[radi]

What settings do you use to capture your videos?