Fraps - Super Low FPS in SLI?

[Heisennburgg]

Hi everyone! So I'm a hardcore Skyrim modder, and love to record different ENB's and showcase them to YouTube. Well lately, I got a second GTX 780 and run them in SLI. I've noticed that when I record while having SLI enabled while playing Skyrim, I get worse FPS while recording in SLI then when I record with just using 1 card. I get like 10-15FPS while recording in SLI and get like 30FPS with SLI disabled. Mind you, I haven't tested this theory in other games, just in skyrim. Is Fraps not made to handle SLI or vise versa? Thanks in advance for any replies that I get.

 

~Reanna

[Enderman]

have you tried other recording software?

shadowplay maybe?

dxtory?

obs?

xsplit?

bandicam?

[Fgtfv567]

Maybe Skyrim is poorly optimized for SLI configs?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2294688

[SPG]

have you tried other recording software?

shadowplay maybe?

dxtory?

obs?

xsplit?

bandicam?

xsplit and bandicam arent really good options by any stretch of the imagination 

[Enderman]

xsplit and bandicam arent really good options by any stretch of the imagination 

ive used bandicam

it works perfectly

very little performance impact with H.264

[Fluxx]

What is your CPU usage like? Iv'e had multiple problems with fraps in the past hogging the CPU all for itself and causing poor performance.

[SImoHayha]

Hi everyone! So I'm a hardcore Skyrim modder, and love to record different ENB's and showcase them to YouTube. Well lately, I got a second GTX 780 and run them in SLI. I've noticed that when I record while having SLI enabled while playing Skyrim, I get worse FPS while recording in SLI then when I record with just using 1 card. I get like 10-15FPS while recording in SLI and get like 30FPS with SLI disabled. Mind you, I haven't tested this theory in other games, just in skyrim. Is Fraps not made to handle SLI or vise versa? Thanks in advance for any replies that I get.

 

~Reanna

Try using OBS. Fraps is a heavy resource hog even for powerful computers.

[Heisennburgg]

have you tried other recording software?

shadowplay maybe?

dxtory?

obs?

xsplit?

bandicam?

yes on Shadowplay and bandicam. Dxtory i can NEVER get to work for some reason, and never tried xsplit or obs. Shadowplay is amazing but it washes out the colors on gameplay footage for me

[Heisennburgg]

What is your CPU usage like? Iv'e had multiple problems with fraps in the past hogging the CPU all for itself and causing poor performance.

i'll monitor it when i play next and let you know. i'm pretty sure the usage goes from anywhere to 80-100% though.

[Heisennburgg]

Maybe Skyrim is poorly optimized for SLI configs?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2294688

yeah that's what i'm starting to think, thanks for the article, very helpful actually.

[ShadowCaptain]

yes on Shadowplay and bandicam. Dxtory i can NEVER get to work for some reason, and never tried xsplit or obs. Shadowplay is amazing but it washes out the colors on gameplay footage for me

 

Just increase the saturation in your editing software for shadowplay recordings

[Heisennburgg]

Just increase the saturation in your editing software for shadowplay recordings

yeah i'll mess around with it, thanks for your help.

[ShadowCaptain]

yeah i'll mess around with it, thanks for your help.

 

It can definitely help improve things

 

You could also try using OBS which has various codecs available, I believe you can use intel quick-sync to have basically no performance drop just like using shadowplay (basically uses the graphics built into your intel CPU to record the game)

 

(also Hi, welcome to the forum dont think I have seen you before )

[Heisennburgg]

It can definitely help improve things

 

You could also try using OBS which has various codecs available, I believe you can use intel quick-sync to have basically no performance drop just like using shadowplay (basically uses the graphics built into your intel CPU to record the game)

 

(also Hi, welcome to the forum dont think I have seen you before )

thank you! i'm glad i joined!

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/2sjxh8/skyrim_sli_gpu_utilization/

Hmm... some people say that ENB is the culpurit... please try running Skyrim without ENB and see what happens.

From that same thread? They say that K's ENB Pure Light mod seems to work ok in SLI.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/58338/

[Satlen]

yes on Shadowplay and bandicam. Dxtory i can NEVER get to work for some reason, and never tried xsplit or obs. Shadowplay is amazing but it washes out the colors on gameplay footage for me

 

When you say you can never get it to work, what do you mean?

[Heisennburgg]

When you say you can never get it to work, what do you mean?

it just never records my games.