Recording planetside 2 Requirements

[nagzstar]

i am going to make a new build PC and i want to run high end games and also record them at 1080p at high FPS with good quality of course, so far the build that i have made is this

http://pcpartpicker.com/uk/p/wPk4

i have a under £1000 budget

Please do tell me on how i can approve and or what requirements ill need to record PS2 on high quality and still record at 720/1080p at around 60fps

Thank you


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[novasatori]

it should work fine, I play and record at those settings on my computer which has a 660 Ti instead of a 7970...

Also a 3770k instead of a 3570k, but I doubt that will make much difference.

 

[Zenoth]

I have done quite a good amount of game-play recording a few years ago (back in around 2008 or so) and the one thing I remember helping the cause the most out of everything I've tried to "smooth" out game-play (and video, too) while recording was to simply buy a fast(er) Hard Drive (at the time I had upgraded to a Caviar Black model from Western Digital, and lo and behold my recordings were probably two times smoother than before said upgrade was done). I'm no overall hardware expert but I think that what helped the most was indeed the whole I/O speed and capabilities of the system.

I'm not sure, however, how it'd be like to record game-play while running a system with Solid State Drives without any mechanical parts involved. It's obviously most likely quite a smooth experience. But obviously most SSD's storage capacities are relatively small and wouldn't exactly be the best place to store uncompressed 10GB+ game-play video files, if you do record often enough that is, or if you happen to record perhaps just one or two videos but happen to be lengthy enough to take that much space, if not more.

Now of course having a good enough CPU and GPU will surely help too, but that's obvious enough I think. The one part that is often neglected, however, is indeed the Hard Drive's speed or general I/O performance of the system.

 

[nagzstar]

couldnt i record the data to my SSD and then move to my HDD ?

 

[SunnyD]

couldnt i record the data to my SSD and then move to my HDD ?

That's what I do.

 

[imaheadcase]

Don't use the ingame recorder. Get something like Open Broadcaster to record it.

Also works better if you plan to stream some games.

 

[mfenn]

The build you have listed is not bad at all. I would probably switch to the ASRock Z77 Pro3 instead of the Extreme4 since you are not doing dual GPU, but that's about it.

To record smoothly, you need two main things:
- A CPU that's powerful enough to handle both the game and any real-time encoding that you plan to do. The i5 3570K qualifies.
- A storage device that is going to give you consistent performance when writing the frames out to disk. HDD's are actually not bad at all when it comes to writing out files in a straight line (i.e. sequentially) like you do when you're recording. HDD's are very bad at doing more than one thing at once though. So you need to make sure that the HDD has nothing else on it other than the output of your recording software. If that means getting a separate hard drive that is dedicated to recording, then so be it.