Do you want to stream your games online or maybe record them to create videos? If you’ve tried to use screen capture to do either of those things you may have noticed a sharp drop in game performance, resulting in low frame per seconds and sluggish responses that may even make your game unplayable.
Needless to say that is far from ideal and will affect the quality of your video or stream. As such, you may want to take these steps to improve the performance of your game:
Close any unnecessary programs
It should go without saying but aside from the screen capture software and your game – you should close any and all other programs. The less programs that are running the less the load will be on your system resources, all of which you’re going to need to run your game while recording at the same time.
Lower the games’ graphic settings
If your computer can barely handle the games graphic settings, especially the quality of the shadows, textures, antialiasing and so on – it isn’t going to be able to do so while recording. Try to slowly lower the graphic settings of your game and find a balance between quality and framerate.
Record at lower resolutions
Rather than attempting to record or stream at Full HD (1080p), you may want to try 720p instead. Reducing the resolution will mean that recording takes less resources, and it will also mean that you can reduce the game display resolution to match as there’s no reason for it to be any higher.
Use a separate hard drive
Try to put your game on one hard drive and run your screen recorder from another. By doing so there won’t be a bottleneck when both your game and screen recorder are reading or writing to the same hard drive and essentially have to share its speed. For even better results you could consider using SSDs that have much faster read/write speeds.
Of course it also helps if the game recorder that you’re using is lightweight and resource-friendly – which is one of the advantages of using Movavi Game Capture. It will consume far less resources while running comfortably in the background, and should help you to ensure your game performance is unaffected as possible.
Using Movavi Game Capture you can start recording at any time with just a single click and set its frame rate, audio sources, and sound levels. Additionally you could capture footage from your webcam and overlay it onto the game footage that you’re recording, so that your reactions are recorded as well.
If you prefer you could even save the audio tracks, webcam footage, and game footage as individual files, or optimize it and upload it directly to YouTube when you’re done. At the end of the day the slew of options in Movavi Game Capture will ensure you have a versatile tool with which to record the best moments from your games.
