Games stuttering while recording?

[AstroBenny]

So I notice that when I am recording pc footage my game seems to be 'less smooth'

My frames are still up in to the mid 200s while playing bo2 and I only get about a 5fps drop when recording but it doesn't seem as smooth.

I wouldn't describe the game as stuttering because it's not skipping frames but the experience just doesn't feel as nice for some reason. I'm playing at 120Hz.

I am recording to a single WD Black 1TB HDD which is also my OS drive. Could this be the problem?

Specs:

4690K

8GB Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz

GTX 970

WD Black 1TB

AX760i

Maximus VII Heroooo

 

Cheers

[Guest]

It's because you only have one hard drive. For optimal performance, you should have a dedicated drive for the recording.

[AstroBenny]

It's because you only have one hard drive. For optimal performance, you should have a dedicated drive for the recording.

But it's a WD Black 'high performance drive'

[Guest]

But it's a WD Black 'high performance drive'

Honestly that's pretty much snake oil

[TheKDub]

It's because you only have one hard drive. For optimal performance, you should have a dedicated drive for the recording.

 

This ^

 

I have an i5 4690K and GTX 970, I can record gameplay just fine with FRAPS or Shadowplay, though I'm also recording to a separate drive from my OS. (Not dedicated entirely to recordings, it also holds some programs, games, etc.. as I don't have another fast hard drive that I could dedicate to it..)

[AstroBenny]

This ^

 

I have an i5 4690K and GTX 970, I can record gameplay just fine with FRAPS or Shadowplay, though I'm also recording to a separate drive from my OS. (Not dedicated entirely to recordings, it also holds some programs, games, etc.. as I don't have another fast hard drive that I could dedicate to it..)

But surely there is no bottleneck as my fps is still very high. Surely fps is just fps... If you have a certain fps then surely it will play as smooth as the amount of fps you are achieving..?

[TheKDub]

But surely there is no bottleneck as my fps is still very high. Surely fps is just fps... If you have a certain fps then surely it will play as smooth as the amount of fps you are achieving..?

 

Erm.. could you try restating the question?