MSI Afterburner Recording Issue + Video

[marcd89]

Hello Community,

I'm currently experiencing an issue while recording with MSI Afterburner. When recording, approximately half way through the recording I get stutter for 5 seconds and then nothing, please see the below video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z62OfvDfbaE

As you can see the game stutters, almost like my fps has dropped to 5 fps but in game the fps is fine. I have used MSI for all my recording needs and it's only on the latest F1 games I have this issue. It will only happen once or twice over an hour long recording but as you can see it has a big impact, especially on racing games.

My settings for MSI are - http://imgur.com/tzohB0B

I can't say if anything changes when it happens as I don't get a chance to look at CPU usage etc but because it is so random it's hard to pin point the cause.

I have my game installed on my SSD and I record to a HDD as recommended. I get a solid FPS of about 80-100 while recording and my GPU temps remain steady at low 70s.

Rig
MSI 280x GPU
I5-4570 - CPU
8GB DDR3 Ram
MSI Gaming 3 Motherboard

Any help or input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[James Mason]

MSI isn't really a good choice for recording gameplay.

You can try OBS since it's free:
https://obsproject.com/
And here's how to set it up for local recordings, start at the recommended crf 15, and lower the number for higher quality and higher file size recordings, or raise it for slightly lower quality and smaller file sizes.
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/
And to set it up for Twitch:
http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1262922-open-broadcaster-software
And to get it setup for Youtube streaming:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853700?hl=en&authuser=1&ref_topic=6136989
And optimizing it for Youtube:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?authuser=1

If you have an Nvidia GPU, you can use that to reduce the load on your CPU:
To set it up for recordings:
1. go to settings
2. go to encoding
3. click the Nvidia NVENC button
4. Make sure Use CBR is turned on
5. Make sure Enable CBR Padding is turned off
6. Set your Max Bitrate (Kb/s) to your upload max upload speed. You'll want like 8000 or more though, this affects the visual quality of the video partly. (1mbps = 1000 kbps, www.speedtest.net)
7. go to Video and set the FPS to 60
8. Go to Advanced
9. Turn Use Multithreaded Optimizations on
10. Set NVENC Preset to High Quality
11. Set Encoding Profile to Main
12. Turn Use CFR on.

To capture your game:
1. Right click in the white area of the Scenes: box and choose add scene, name it after the game you're gonna play.
2. Start the game you're gonna play.
3. right click in the Sources: box and choose Game Capture (for full screen games) or Window Capture (for windowed games whether borderless or not) or Monitor (to capture whatever is display one your monitor including your desktop/webbrowser/OBS)
4. Start recording.

To add a webcam:
1. Right click in the Sources: box and choose Video Capture Device.
2. Choose your webcam from the dropdown list at the top. Press Okay.
3. Click Preview Stream
4. Click the Video Capture in the sources list, go to Order and choose Move to Top.
5. Press the Edit Scene button