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Reducing The Performance Hit

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:22 pm
by LtMatt
Any tips for reducing the performance hit of recording? I game at 1440P and currently use the MP4 AMD APP option to record. I notice sometimes the gpu usage drops quite low whilst recording.

Specs
2700k@4.8gh\z
2x290 in crossfire
16gb DDR3 2133mhz
250GB SSD

Re: Reducing The Performance Hit

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:51 pm
by radi
MP4 or AVI?

Re: Reducing The Performance Hit

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:40 am
by Montago
LtMatt wrote:Any tips for reducing the performance hit of recording? I game at 1440P and currently use the MP4 AMD APP option to record. I notice sometimes the gpu usage drops quite low whilst recording.

Specs
2700k@4.8gh\z
2x290 in crossfire
16gb DDR3 2133mhz
250GB SSD
With 2x R290 you shouldn't be able to notice that Action is recording..

- Are your recording Harddrive fast enough (assuming its not your SSD)
- Have you tried disabling Crossfire ?

AMD has notorious problems with frame pacing and in some cases with CrossFire - Try lowering your GFX quality so that you ALWAYS have more than 60 or 70 FPS..

Also, enable VSYNC.. it's much better when recording to have it enabled !

Re: Reducing The Performance Hit

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 10:29 am
by LtMatt
radi wrote:MP4 or AVI?
MP4 or AVI.

Can you give me some recommended settings to try for best performance?

Re: Reducing The Performance Hit

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 10:30 am
by LtMatt
Montago wrote:
LtMatt wrote:Any tips for reducing the performance hit of recording? I game at 1440P and currently use the MP4 AMD APP option to record. I notice sometimes the gpu usage drops quite low whilst recording.

Specs
2700k@4.8gh\z
2x290 in crossfire
16gb DDR3 2133mhz
250GB SSD
With 2x R290 you shouldn't be able to notice that Action is recording..

- Are your recording Harddrive fast enough (assuming its not your SSD)
- Have you tried disabling Crossfire ?

AMD has notorious problems with frame pacing and in some cases with CrossFire - Try lowering your GFX quality so that you ALWAYS have more than 60 or 70 FPS..

Also, enable VSYNC.. it's much better when recording to have it enabled !
I have a 250GB Samsung 840 Basic SSD so not sure that is the problem.

I use vsync already. The problem is the fps dropping low. Nothing wrong with AMD frame pacing, works wonderfully so its not that. Microstutter is a thing of the past for AMD these days.