Couple days ago, I purchased the AverMedia HD H727 3D Capture Card. It took forever to get it set up but when I did, I found that I'm unable to capture Lossless AVI at 720p@60FPS. I was quite disappointed. There are many others that can capture at a constant 720p@60FPS with hardware that isn't significantly greater than mine. With my current hardware, I can only capture 720p Lossless videos at roughly 40FPS.
Just today, I overclocked my Q6600 from 2.4 to 3.2GHz and found out that it had no impact what-so-ever as to increasing my Average capture FPS. I'm just not entirely sure what it could be.
My PC:
Q6600 @ 3.2GHz (Currently Prime95-ing 3.4GHz 3+ hours now)
P35C-DS3R
4GB DDR2 800MHz
HD 5850
500W PSU
My thoughts? I'm beginning to think it's my HDD. My PC is fairly old now and so should be my HDD. From what I've read, capturing HD Lossless videos require fast HDD Write-speeds. Device manager tells me that my HDD is WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 ATA 500GB.
[b]I'm planning to purchase 2 new HDDs for a Raid0 set up. Anyone else think this is a good idea?[/b]
I couldn't record 720p@30fps with fraps before i bought another HDD to record on.
So i think your HDD is holding you back due to OS and Game are running from it and constantly reading data from your HDD while your recording software/capture card is writing alot of data on the HDD which slows down the read operations thus making your game stutter.
Oh wait capture card? you're recording from external source?
Have you checked that your CPU isn't running at full load already from task manager ?
Yep I have. When capturing, it only uses <20% of my CPU. Even overclocking didn't have an effect on average capture FPS.
Maybe it's like Fraps. If you record to a HDD that isn't used by the game, it won't slow you down. So yes, it's most likely your HDD.
I jumped the gun on these:
[url]http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=c501895c8ccce110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD[/url]
Bought two of them for about 70. Going to Raid0 them. What should I do with my current HDD? Should I install the OS on the Raid0 arrays?
EDIT: The idiot in me didn't check whether my motherboard supports SATA2. I went to [url=http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2551&dl=#ov]the site[/url] and doesn't say anything about it, but it does say 3gb/s which is SATA2 speeds.
The HDDs I bought. [url]http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200621736359&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT[/url]
You'll be fine. A single "Good" drive should record lossless 720p60, you're probably recording to a fragmented drive. I use two WD 640gb Blues in Raid0 and I pull 160mb/s write which is enough for 1080p60 with fraps even.
Are you capturing Lossless with a codec or uncompressed?
I'm recording 1080p@30fps now to my Samsung Spinpoint F3 so you shouldn't need RAID 0 setup for it aslong as the HDD can record to unfragmented disk like said in post above this as if the drive if fragmented it needs to move the Write/Read head alot which slows the writing process alot and you'd prolly need HDD with 64MB cache to counter that problem.
My HDD is very old now, so I would think that write speed will be a big deal.
Windows defrags every Wednesday so unless you're talking about something else, I'm not too sure that's the problem.
Samsung Spinpoint F3-s are usually cheaper and better than the seagate ones.
Oh, you bought used ones.
Yeah... I got a little impatient there.
I guess on the bright side, I'll be having more space now.
EDIT: While the F3 may be cheaper, wouldn't the Raid0 Setup be faster? I'm willing to drop down 70 for that performance then.
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