Recording gameplay to the same HDD VS a seperate HDD.

[Alan3345]

Hey guys so I only have one hardrive in my system. It's a Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 RPM drive. I run my OS, games and recording software off it and record footage to it. Now that youtube supports 60 fps, I want to upload my vids with that framerate. The problem is when using Dxtory, Mirillis Action or AMD GVR the file fps tends to hover in the 50s instead of constant 60 (even though i'm playing at a constant 60fps). Would getting a second hard drive for recording solve this or not? What do you guys think? 

 

Thanks for any help

[tengarp]

If you record to a separate ssd that would help and if you get an i7 probably, but I don't think a separate hdd would help much

[samcool55]

Could help, it could also be that your cpu can't keep up with it... If want to encode it on the fly during gaming, can be hard. But if you are sure it's your hdd a seperate hdd can help indeed, i suggest one with a high amount of capacity or a performance one (a WD black or something). Maybe a WD purple is something for you? They are designed for surveillance stuff... Which is sort-of the same...

[Extingquish]

I think the problem with the 50ish FPS is that the Hard drive is dropping frames, an SSD, while expensive and not optimised for this sort of thing, would be beneficial

 

And for example, you could transfer the footage over to the hard drive, once you're done filming

[j.dirona]

From my experience yes, I switched to recording to a separate disk and it seemed to help quite a bit with frame rates, that said it does depend on the game since some games hardly require any reading from the disk while others are more intense, obviously a more intense game will cause it to make a bigger difference where as something like Binding of Issac which takes almost no disk to run it won't make much of a difference. 

[EdgeUK]

Yeah it's a popular issue with Dxtory at 60fps recording. TotalBiscuit did some research into it and found a new codec that (although having bigger filesize) does record at a clean 60.

 

Link: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/nh4vr9

 

And to answer your question, record to a separate drive.

[samcool55]

If you record to a separate ssd that would help and if you get an i7 probably, but I don't think a separate hdd would help much

An ssd is expensive and you would need to write everything to another hdd after recording or something, also writing a lot to an ssd is not that healthy for the ssd..

the i7 could indeed help but i7 cpu + motherboard is quite expensive tbh...

[Extingquish]

An ssd is expensive and you would need to write everything to another hdd after recording or something, also writing a lot to an ssd is not that healthy for the ssd..

the i7 could indeed help but i7 cpu + motherboard is quite expensive tbh...

Didn't samsung say that the 850 pro 120gb in their lab had written something like a petabyte of data?

[tengarp]

An ssd is expensive and you would need to write everything to another hdd after recording or something, also writing a lot to an ssd is not that healthy for the ssd..

the i7 could indeed help but i7 cpu + motherboard is quite expensive tbh...

Right it isn't cheap lol and it will wear down the ssd but it will give better performance

[samcool55]

Didn't samsung say that the 850 pro 120gb in their lab had written something like a petabyte of data?

That thing is also a pro-grade thing and quite expensive, and you will still have the issue of copying everything after recording to another drive, or if you are recording for a long time, you could run out of space... (probably won't happen, but it's something to keep in mind) If you really want an ssd, get the 850 pro as suggested but get at least a 250... 

[Alan3345]

Thanks guys for the help, I'll probably get one to see if it helps anyway

 

 

Yeah it's a popular issue with Dxtory at 60fps recording. TotalBiscuit did some research into it and found a new codec that (although having bigger filesize) does record at a clean 60.

 

Link: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/nh4vr9

 

And to answer your question, record to a separate drive.

 

Oh cool, i'll try that out so

 

If you record to a separate ssd that would help and if you get an i7 probably, but I don't think a separate hdd would help much

 

Well I am getting an i7 (currently looking at the i7 4790k) but that won't be for several months

[tengarp]

Thanks guys for the help, I'll probably get one to see if it helps anyway

 

 

 

Oh cool, i'll try that out so

 

 

Well I am getting an i7 (currently looking at the i7 4790k) but that won't be for several months

lol ok then, yeah trying out stuff is probably the best way to find out

[Alan3345]

Yeah it's a popular issue with Dxtory at 60fps recording. TotalBiscuit did some research into it and found a new codec that (although having bigger filesize) does record at a clean 60.

 

Link: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/nh4vr9

 

And to answer your question, record to a separate drive.

 

BTW just downloaded that codec and tried it, it worked, constant 60fps

[EdgeUK]

BTW just downloaded that codec and tried it, it worked, constant 60fps

 

Good to know, thanks for the confirmation, I'll test it myself later too

[tengarp]

BTW just downloaded that codec and tried it, it worked, constant 60fps

can u send a download link to the codec? i google searched it but the websites look kinda shady

[Alan3345]

can u send a download link to the codec? i google searched it but the websites look kinda shady

 

I downloaded it from here: http://www.free-codecs.com/Ut_Video_Codec_Suite_download.htm

 

Bear in mind it has MASSIVE filesizes (18 gb for a 6 min clip) but the quality is amazing and it works with Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere Pro, though you can't playback the raw file with any video player.

 

When selecting a codec in Dxtory this is the one you choose: UTVideo YUV422 BT.709

[tengarp]

I downloaded it from here: http://www.free-codecs.com/Ut_Video_Codec_Suite_download.htm

 

Bear in mind it has MASSIVE filesizes (18 gb for a 6 min clip) but the quality is amazing and it works with Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere Pro, though you can't playback the raw file with any video player.

 

When selecting a codec in Dxtory this is the one you choose: UTVideo YUV422 BT.709

thanks!