5400rpm drive for recording 1080p 60fps

[Marfe]

Good day!

I'm planning to buy a Elgato HD60s and use a 6 year old HP Pavilion dv4-5012tx as a recording/streaming PC.

 

This are the specs of the laptop

CPU: i7 3610QM

GPU: GT 630M

RAM: 8GB

Storage: 750GB 5400rpm HDD

 

I just want to ask, is the 5400rpm drive enough to record 1080p 60fps? If not, is a 7200rpm drive upgrade enough or should I really need an SSD to record at 1080p 60fps.

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It should be plenty.  You might record at 50 Mbit/s if you want very high quality... in a sequential write the HDD should easily do 10x that

[Spotty]

7 minutes ago, Marfe said:

Storage: 750GB 5400rpm HDD

The sequential write speed of the drive will not be an issue for 1080p recording.

750GB is going to fill up pretty quickly if you're recording a lot of footage in 1080p60fps. You should be looking at a new HDD if you are planning on storing the videos on the computer as well, like a 3TB or higher capacity model. If you're just streaming it live to Twitch and not saving copies of the footage, then it won't matter.

[Marfe]

Just now, Spotty said:

The sequential write speed of the drive will not be an issue for 1080p recording.

750GB is going to fill up pretty quickly if you're recording a lot of footage in 1080p60fps. You should be looking at a new HDD if you are planning on storing the videos on the computer as well, like a 3TB or higher capacity model. If you're just streaming it live to Twitch and not saving copies of the footage, then it won't matter.

I'm only recording like max 10mins per clip (speed running at MHW) and I have a 4TB external HDD. I don't save files when I'm streaming so i think i'll be good. My main concern is that the video may become stuttery or something because of the slow HDD.

[Streetguru]

45 minutes ago, Marfe said:

 

Why do you need any of that? You shouldn't have any issues recording on your R5 1600/1060 3GB system

[Marfe]

Just now, Streetguru said:

Why do you need any of that? You shouldn't have any issues recording on your R5 1600/1060 3GB system

When i'm recording with shadow play I noticed that the videos are not that smooth, I see stuttering here and there. I already turned on V-Sync and I don't notice those stutters while playing the game. I have already increased/decreased the bitrate of my recording to 20/50/100 but the video still stutters.

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, Marfe said:

When i'm recording with shadow play I noticed that the videos are not that smooth, I see stuttering here and there. I already turned on V-Sync and I don't notice those stutters while playing the game.

Your shadowplay settings are likely just too high, you might have finer control in OBS, just switch it to NVENC encoding.

 

Or go into task manager and give the game core 0-core 5, and give OBS core 6-11 using CPU affinity basically splitting your CPU in half for encoding. Use CRF 24 or a bit higher, with the Very Fast CPU preset.

 

V-sync wouldn't affect that at all, should just leave that off

[Marfe]

 

Just now, Streetguru said:

Your shadowplay settings are likely just too high, you might have finer control in OBS, just switch it to NVENC encoding.

I'm recording at 1080p 60fps and tried 20/50/100 bitrate but same result.

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Marfe said:

 

I'm recording at 1080p 60fps and tried 20/50/100 bitrate but same result.

Well mess around with OBS, either with NVENC or CPU recording. I just did some testing an using 3 cores 6 threads seemed alright at CRF 24 Very Fast 60fps, image is a bit soft but it is smooth. Could also step down to 1600x900p recording to save a bit on resources as well.

 

You could also drop down to like 45fps or 50fps which is still plenty smooth, but easier to record naturally.