I'm looking at upgrading my video card, and I've recently started doing recording of video games. Something I'm wondering is if it would be possible to use my current video card as an auxiliary processor for the recording.
Right now I have the 560TI and I'm looking at getting either the 760 or the 770 to replace it. But I'm not really enthusiastic to just toss the old card as it's still working well and if I can use it for something I'd like to.
My preference is to record at 1080P hopefully around 25-30FPS if not more. I've got an SSD, lots of memory at 1600, and a 4670K running stock speeds, so the rest of my system seems to be capable of recording, but when I try to right now it chokes and the recording is really bad and stutters a lot.
Is there any way I can do this? Is there software I could look into? Or should I just start looking for capture cards? I don't particularly mind using a capture card, but it would mean a bunch more money going out just to be able to record some videos that I only plan on showing friends and my clan mates.
i think alot of the recording has more to do with your cpu and the speed of the recording medium you are recording too, ie disk, ssd, harddrive. can you play the game without recording? it might just be that you dont have enough gpu power?
I wonder if it could be that your using a quad core to try and record. It shouldn't be that big of a problem but lots of intense games (fps in particular) really like to use all four cores. So only using three for the game could be a small bottleneck.
What are you using to record right now? I'm running a 3570K, GTX 660 Ti, and 8GB 1600Mhz. I've recorded 1080p60 using Shadowplay and 1080p30 using a Live Gamer Portable. Neither of them cause any sort of impact on my system performance. Both of them are recording onto a WD Black 1TB drive. Upgrading to a 760 or 770 could very well alleviate the problems you're experiencing. That would allow you to utilize Nvidia Shadowplay to do realtime h.264 encoding as you record.
Something also occurred to me. You mention your recording stutters a lot. Are you using something like FRAPS and recording the raw footage at 1080p30? That generates a MASSIVE recording that I've noticed will often stutter and have issues until re-encoded.