Footage will stop and skip ahead at random, please help!

[Kenshin Mizuhara]

OS: Windows 7 x64
Video Card: NVIDIA 660GTX
Memory: 16 GB
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080
Video Editor: Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Game Problem: Multiple
Video Type: AVI

Before anything else, I must say, I love Action!, it's a wonderful program. The UI is wonderful, the quality is great, the output files are reasonably sized, and I see little to no FPS drops during recording, it's great!

However, I've recently run into an issue that's really broken the experience for me. I do let's plays on YouTube (recording a game and commenting over it as I play), and have very recently begun doing one of the new zombie game, Dying Light. Recording was great for the first episode, but now I've got an issue.

When viewed in any playback software (Action!'s inbuilt one or otherwise), the video will stutter to a stop, but the audio will keep going. The video will either then zoom forward very fast to catch up to where it should've been if it hadn't stopped, or will jump everything ahead by around a minute or so (it varies).

This obviously ruins my footage, and thus, my video, as this is something I cannot figure out how to fix. I notice no issues while recording ingame, only afterwards when it is being viewed. (This is before any rendering in a video editor has taken place).

It's difficult for me to recreate this occurrence for you, as it happens at sheer random, but I've managed to catch it in the act after attempting to record the next episode of my let's play, and have an example here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSU1Tusaw14


This has also happened to me in other games as well, such as Taken, and Kingdom Hearts on PCSX2.

I record in original size in AVI, at 30fps. High quality, with an input range of 0-255.

I'd hate to stop using Action! to record my footage due to this issue, but I may have to if I cannot find a fix for this, as this has been affecting my recordings at random for months now.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

[DIGG]

Since you have a nVidia 600+ card, have you tried recording using "MP4 (NVIDIA(R) NVENC)" instead of AVI or MP4 (cpu based recording)? You don't specify what type you chose, but I would guess you went with the good default AVI? You don't specify the cpu either... hard to pinpoint when all the crucial data isn't there.

For over a year I used Action!'s own codec (in AVI) and it was rather great, achieving 1080p@60fps most of the time, but not always. I switched from a GTX560ti to a GTX770, and I've been using the NVENC recording instead, still produces good image quality (but filesizes seem a tab bigger) and get a higher framerate. (but that's really depending on the type of game you play, some are heavy on cpu, some on gpu)

Food for thought.

[Kenshin Mizuhara]

Wow, I'm a fool. I put that information in while registering, but the info box that requested it didn't allow enough space to type all my specs.

I chose to record in default AVI, yes. As for my CPU, I've got an i7 2600k @ 3.40GHz. So sorry for leaving that out!

As for the NVIDIA NVENC setting, I've not looked into this setting, and in fact kinda didn't even notice in when I was looking through things, it kinda just avoided my notice somehow. I'll definitely try this out and see what comes of it, since it works through the GPU instead. I'll try it out and report my results. Though since my issue would happen at random, it's hard to say when I'll have a solid answer, but this seems an excellent option to try out, thanks for the advice!