Framerate drops down to 30 when recording

[pascuagon]

I just recently bought Mirillis Action and its been great so far. Even so, and I know this is not supposed to happen, whenever im recording gameplay my FPS goes down to 30fps and locks. When im not recording, i usually get between 100-500fps. What could be the problem? I know Action! is not supposed to do this.

[radi]

Action! is not locking your game fps. Red HUD indicates current recorded fps, not actual game fps.

[WelshDevil]

Action! is not locking your game fps. Red HUD indicates current recorded fps, not actual game fps.

Would it be so hard to add the option to view actual FPS then? You could have an option to tick in the HUD Settings tab in the options menu for example. Pretty sure that this would make a lot of people happy, including me.

[radi]

Action! is not locking your game fps. Red HUD indicates current recorded fps, not actual game fps.

Would it be so hard to add the option to view actual FPS then? You could have an option to tick in the HUD Settings tab in the options menu for example. Pretty sure that this would make a lot of people happy, including me.

I can add it as a suggestions to user's wishlist but I cannot guarantee that this will be added.

[WelshDevil]

Action! is not locking your game fps. Red HUD indicates current recorded fps, not actual game fps.

Would it be so hard to add the option to view actual FPS then? You could have an option to tick in the HUD Settings tab in the options menu for example. Pretty sure that this would make a lot of people happy, including me.

I can add it as a suggestions to user's wishlist but I cannot guarantee that this will be added.

Thanks for including it. Just have to wait and see I suppose.

[iCeOL8TRAmnesia]

How come when I go into BL2 I have 100 FPS then I enable recording and it drops to 60 FPS on the HUD and my MSI Afterburner/ RivaTuner Statistics Server OSD? The record FPS will hover 57-60 and the OSD FPS will report 60-65 in some situations 70 or higher?

[WelshDevil]

How come when I go into BL2 I have 100 FPS then I enable recording and it drops to 60 FPS on the HUD and my MSI Afterburner/ RivaTuner Statistics Server OSD? The record FPS will hover 57-60 and the OSD FPS will report 60-65 in some situations 70 or higher?

The FPS counter in the Action HUD while recording changes to show the video frames per second, not the 'actual' FPS. This is an option that I have asked to be added, actual recording FPS, if you read my posts.

[iCeOL8TRAmnesia]

Yeah I read and understood everything and I just mentioned that but I said the Afterburner OSD is also showing 60 to 70 fps. I remember not getting any frame hit before but now something is wrong and I cant figure it out. Stating that the Mirillis Action HUD only displays recorded FPS is not some kind of catchall disclaimer......

[Digital Anomaly]

I can confirm that Action throttles in-game FPS, most likely to be able to sync the recording. I installed Action on my secondary machine, an i5-2500k w/ a GTX 550 Ti. I tested with Starcraft II by loading one of my replays. On a completely static scene, I was getting ~90 fps based on the in-game FPS counter of SC2 (press CTRL-ALT-F to show). At this point, Starcraft II was taking up ~30% of my CPU. The moment I started recording, my in-game FPS dropped to ~55 and SC2's CPU usage was suddenly down to ~20%. Somehow, Action is affecting SC2 causing it to render less frames during recording, which in turn drops CPU utilization since it doesn't need to render as much. I also tested this in other games such as League of Legends, same behavior.

Is there a way to fix this?

[WelshDevil]

Jezz this is all completely over my head. Who knows why the program does this, I know that its unique in the way that it uses Aero to record. Something to do with this perhaps?