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VCE for AMD AND the Gaming Evolved APP lets you record in the loop continuously and then save on the fly with hotkeys.
I have seen some performance gain, it would be nice to for people to confirm this.
Works with GCN cards. I'm 7850 + i3 2120 so anyone else out there lemme know what gains / losses you see.
A bit finnicky.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Video explaining a bit more in depth on how to use it and stuff. It's kind of obvious for this forum though.
 
(If I messed something up in the video please lemme know in the comments or in a post. I'm not the smartest person out there BY FAR :P )
 
What is VCE?
 
Gaming Evolved for Replay Recording:
 
Codec download:
 
Dxtory:
 
OBS Fork:
 
 
 
I searched for AMD VCE. The articles were old and didn't really mention gaming evolved so...
 
 
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What happens when you try to use it WITHOUT a compatible card!

DxpoFhG.jpg

 

 

Credit to Joao for that link (friend with shitty PC, and shitty friend that's a total piece of garbage)

 

 

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*Nvidia software dev's* THEY'VE FOUND OUT OUR SECRET, QUICK, CHANGE THE NAME TO "NVIDIA EXCLUSIVE SHADOWPLAY, AMD GET YOUR GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF IT"

 

But in all honesty, this seems pretty cool, and It is definitely a game changer for some people who want the NVIDIA features, but cant affrd to spend that much.

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Why have OBS on the list? For the non-Intel scrubs? :P

 

QuickSync ftw.

i would agree with you if i was able to enable my igpu :-( 

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Why have OBS on the list? For the non-Intel scrubs? :P

 

QuickSync ftw.

Quicksink is for skrubs.

 

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What happens when you try to use it WITHOUT a compatible card!

DxpoFhG.jpg

 

Credit to Joao for that link (friend with shitty PC)

 

 

 

 

- Overall I'm enjoying the benefit of it while playing smite. I got some really nice clips with ISIS where I caused a decide by killing EVERYONE! Mwahahah. Just gotta convert it though.

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Latest MSI Afterburner support VCE too i think. 

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Quicksink is for skrubs.

 

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Latest MSI Afterburner support VCE too i think. 

 

 

Ballin. Any recording software that supports choosing your own encoder works. 

Anyone feel like posting results they're getting in FPS loss differences? I'll work on mine t'morrow I'm getting tired xD

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Quicksink is for skrubs.

 

Real men harness the power of their Core 2 Duo

Hey, I can record at a 320k bit rate @ 60 fps so I'm happy.. :D

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Ballin. Any recording software that supports choosing your own encoder works. 

Anyone feel like posting results they're getting in FPS loss differences? I'll work on mine t'morrow I'm getting tired xD

 

I mean not using OpenEncodeVFW. 

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I cant find the list of supported Graphics cards...

 

Help?

 

 

http://developer.amd.com/community/blog/2014/02/19/introducing-video-coding-engine-vce/

 

Scroll down a bit.

http://prntscr.com/41j27m

 

If you've got a 7770+ you should be fine. I think 7750 is GCN too but I can't be sure. Either way just download the AMD Gaming Evolved software and it'll let you/not let you use the recording feature accordingly.

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I mean not using OpenEncodeVFW. 

 

Oh so they're offering support of their own? Sweet, I might have to check this out.

I see it does and puts it in an h.264 thing. Very sweet, I wonder how it compares to openencodevfw, mostly because it's probably more refined. I think I might test that too.

 

SHITE, sorry for the double post. I thought Acid's post came after my last one. Oh well =/

Edit: I'm going to see how the performance hit of AMDGE's replay feature compares to consistent recording as well.

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I thought everybody knew about this, guess I was wrong... I've been using dxtory and openencodevfw for a while now and it's awesome. I can record like hour long gameplays and theres zero performance hits and its not a large file size.

 

Also to add: 

While using the dxtory method, the file cannot be imported to any video editing program. It's best to use a transcoder like handbrake to fix that.

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Im going to try this some time today.

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I thought everybody knew about this, guess I was wrong... I've been using dxtory and openencodevfw for a while now and it's awesome. I can record like hour long gameplays and theres zero performance hits and its not a large file size.

 

Also to add: 

While using the dxtory method, the file cannot be imported to any video editing program. It's best to use a transcoder like handbrake to fix that.

 

It's not really well advertised. Most people consider AMD's gaming evolved raptr skin pretty much useless bloatware devoid of any actual benefit in terms of performance. Not to mention most people on the internet still think FRAPS is a good recording software...

I mentioned that in the video (about the having to convert the files before you can use them)

This german post claims that VCE eats 1/3-1/4th of the FPS of the game while shadowplay only eats 5%? I don't think that's entirely accurate but it's hard to determine because I don't own an nvidia card.

Well I do... but it's a 7600gt (I think) that has a dead fan so... xD

http://www.golem.de/news/msi-afterburner-spielevideos-mit-radeon-grafikkarten-aufzeichnen-1405-106697.html

Not to mention all the variables we would have to account for cross-brand. Oh well, either way I'm enjoying whatever benefit this grants me xD

 

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Mine works fine, i tried out yesterday

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It works great, really handy to have going silently in the background and when i randomly blow up a Jet  in BF4 just press one key and it records my last 30 seconds which is great! =) 

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It works great, really handy to have going silently in the background and when i randomly blow up a Jet  in BF4 just press one key and it records my last 30 seconds which is great! =) 

 

 

Exactly what I use it for xD

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I'll post some benchmarks t'morrow.

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This isn't a review of VCE.

A lot of people (not necessarily on this community but elsewhere as well) didn't know about VCE, so it's to spread the word as well as being a - how to use it / what it is / how it works- type of deal. If a mod deems it appropriate to move it somewhere that's their decision.

 

Mostly I'm just trying to spread information about VCE because I think it's cool that now we have something like shadowplay on the AMD side to make recording easier and less intrusive. 

 

However thank you for your concern. 

 

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DVR game detection is still pretty weak, didn't work no some of my games, not to mention you can't use it on game outside of Raptr game list. John Mautari told me they working on it right now though.

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DVR game detection is still pretty weak, didn't work no some of my games, not to mention you can't use it on game outside of Raptr game list. John Mautari told me they working on it right now though.

Yeah. There's some hotfixes for certain games like BF4 as is mentioned in the video.(32 bit mode, no mantle, no ingame origin overlay) but It's still in infancy (much like mantle) and I hope to (and expect to) see it improve quickly and soon. Mostly because I can't wait to record and upload more because performance hits were really a drag and it's more of an incentive to play and upload games now.

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IINM, last update enabled 64bit support for BF4. I haven't try it though.

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