Screen Recording Low FPS

[anotheruserYoun]

Greetings, I recently bought an i5 6600k. Today I decided to record my desktop to create a few tutorials, but whichever software + settings combination I used, the end video would always be choppy. I tried Camstudio(10fps, with Xvid 15fps), Camtasia(1920x1080 choppy) and even OBS(seems smooth but colours are washed out, moreover I would prefer Camtasia over it). I'm using 21" 1920x1080 Monitor and wish to record in same resolution. Using iGPU Intel HD 530. Do I need a better GPU for recording? I've read somewhere that screen recording is CPU intensive and according to me i5 should be able to handle this pretty well.

PS: I'v increased dedicated memory to 512MB using registry tweak.

Specs: i5 6600k, 8GB RAM, Windows 10 Latest Anniversary Update, iGPU: HD 530

EDIT: Camtasia 9

Regards

 

[satchdog123]

Well you have a nice CPU but that GPU seems a little weak, if you were going to get a new GPU I would recommend getting a nvidia because of their GeForce Experience program, its a excellent program from recording. Its hard to explain but its basically always recording and if you want to capture, say the last 10 mins then you just click a hot-key and it records the last 10 minuets, its the best recording software ive used.

 

[anotheruserYoun]

Well you have a nice CPU but that GPU seems a little weak, if you were going to get a new GPU I would recommend getting a nvidia because of their GeForce Experience program, its a excellent program from recording. Its hard to explain but its basically always recording and if you want to capture, say the last 10 mins then you just click a hot-key and it records the last 10 minuets, its the best recording software ive used.

Thanks for a quick response. You rightly said that the GPU is weak, and I agree to it, but what about the people who claim that screen recording only needs powerful CPU?

PS: Meanwhile I tested recording the screen on Ubuntu 16.10 using simple screen recorder and it was able to record the screen successfully. It's definitely ought to be the iGPU. :/

 

[satchdog123]

Being is you're just recording your screen for tutorials you could get by with buying a cheep nvidia gpu. I would look up a video on geforce experience recording if you're that serious into it because its extremely simple. But if you're contempt with Ubuntu then that's all that matters

 

[anotheruserYoun]

Being is you're just recording your screen for tutorials you could get by with buying a cheep nvidia gpu. I would look up a video on geforce experience recording if you're that serious into it because its extremely simple. But if you're contempt with Ubuntu then that's all that matters

Well, I want to make screen recording work primarily on Windows. I guess I would have to a buy a GPU. Thanks for your help.

Conclusion for other readers(as of now): Besides a good CPU, you would also require a decent GPU for screen recording.

If anyone has anything else to add please go ahead.

 

[JohnyC]

Specs: i5 6600k, 8GB RAM, Windows 10 Latest Anniversary Update, iGPU: HD 530

I have a similar configuration as you do and been using for a few weeks ChrisPC Screen Recorder to record tutorials at 30 FPS without any issue. It encodes to MP4 H.264 and you can select which encoding preset to be used. You can find it here:
https://www.pcscreenrecorder.com/
Hope it helps.