8350 or 970 recording performance?

[awesomepebble]

hello! i want to do some game and webcam recording, i use OBS but i get fps drops and even at 120fps i suffer from stutter :/ im using the 970 to record with it not the CPU (so i guess that counts for the fps drops) as i know the 8350 wouldnt benefit that much i think (my bottleneck for CSGO is already the cpu) and even tried shadow play to see if it was OBS not utilizing GPU for recording. but even when a friend steam streams me i get stutter as well, even when im using G-sync and my frame rate is around 60+, its like my frame latency becomes a monster!

Note: shadow play in shadow mode causes no issues, its only when recording i have the problem.

Im looking at upgrading my 8350, an i5 is great for gaming but if my FPS is taking that much of a hit then im down with the i7 as im looking at doing lots of recording... but you know, money.

 

[need4speeds]

Try msi afterburner. It has a video recording feature in it that i found works well.

 

[awesomepebble]

Try msi afterburner. It has a video recording feature in it that i found works well.

Wow, afterburner destroys my FPS down to 40 :/

Been playing a bit more with OBS and shadow play, im hitting around 80 - 120 with BO2 and its just stutter :/ even at 100+fps

A 970 shouldnt be having this sort of problem but im using that for recording so i cant see why it could be my cpu (though it does suck :/

 

[need4speeds]

Is there anything in your monitor settings enabled like MPEG deblocking or video motion upscaling or framerate smoothing?
My tv has those settings and they make the mouse lag so i have to keep them turned off for the computer.

 

[need4speeds]

Afterburner has a feature so it will display the fps during gaming. Enable that and start afterburner. Don't record with afterburner just play the game and see what your fps is in real time during gaming. The game should run smooth and lag free.

Try recording with shadow play, it might be better than afterburner if it uses cuda or nvidia's video processor. Afterburner uses mostly the cpu. The framerate counter should show up in the game and video. (maybe nvidia has one too, disable one since having two of them likely will cause a conflict.)

Most people record in 720p, 80% quality, 30 or 40fps. 1080p has twice the frame size. Recording at 50fps or 60fps makes this double again. The lag could be from your hdd not keeping up if you are trying to record with too high a quailty or framerate. The game also needs this same hdd.
I uses two separate hdd's one the os and game is on, the other i am recording to.

After i compress it with handbrake to h-264 (x264) video. (usually i do this when the computer is not in use since it maxes out the cpu and takes a while) The file sizes are about 1/4 after handbrake compresses it.