The Division Problems (60FPS recording)

[DonTom]

Hey everyone.

I'm having big trouble with recording The Division and have tried everything I can think of to get the problem solved, but now, here I am, without a solution, so I ask you for help.
First my specs.
CPU: i5 4770 (OCd to 4.2 Ghz)
RAM: 16 GB GSkill
GFX: EVGA Geforce 980SC ACX 2.0
System HDD: Samsung EVO850
Recording HDD: Standard 1TB HDD (Seagate or WD I'm not sure)
Windows 8.1
Dxtory 2.0.133


So here is my problem.
I am playing the game with a solid 60 FPS without even a drop to 59 on High (well, there is a drop for about 2 seconds after a loading screen).
Trying to record it with Lagarith, Matrox 32 as well as 64bit and the Dxtory Codec isn't working. I'm constantly recording with 15-45FPS with tending to stabilize at about 25-30 after a few seconds.
I tried changing bitrates, framebuffer in the nvidia settings to 1, full screen, windowed, borderless. Changing the HDD for recording, of course changing the ingame graphics settings to minimal and so on.
Gamefps is always shown with 60, but recording fps is dropping.
Today I had the idea of checking out shadowplay for recording and voila. 60 FPS with all high/ultra settings and not the slightest framedrop.
But, I really want to record with dxtory because i'm kind of in need the many sound channels you can put in dxtory (I use 3).

Does anybody have ideas, to what I can try to make this happen with dxtory?
Btw, forgot to mention, I record ARK with about 55-60 (which is a drop I can definitely handle) and many other games with no problem at all.

Thanks for reading and sry for my bad english

[Takedown]

There isn't a fix yet, but lets keep all Division issues in one thread..
http://forum.exkode.com/index.php?topic=1931.0

[chronosek]

If you have recording frame drop (dxtory ui show game 60fps but recording like 15-45 fps) then problem is disk transfer.
What are dxtory benchmark disk results? Is advanced cache enabled in device manager for this disk?
You should check my post http://forum.exkode.com/index.php?topic=1790.0 where i check what transfer you need for what codec, I would recomend UTVideo yuv420 bt.709 with compression enabled in settings. If you used RGB version or compression was not enabled then it needs more transfer ... Standard 7200rpm hdd have like 90-120 MB write, if it is 5400 then it is less.
Shadowplay use lossy compresion and that why it need less transfer, you could search for x264 vfw codec and use it with dxtory (but it needs proper options, cause x264 needs a lot cpu)

[DonTom]

If you have recording frame drop (dxtory ui show game 60fps but recording like 15-45 fps) then problem is disk transfer.
What are dxtory benchmark disk results? Is advanced cache enabled in device manager for this disk?
You should check my post http://forum.exkode.com/index.php?topic=1790.0 where i check what transfer you need for what codec, I would recomend UTVideo yuv420 bt.709 with compression enabled in settings. If you used RGB version or compression was not enabled then it needs more transfer ... Standard 7200rpm hdd have like 90-120 MB write, if it is 5400 then it is less.
Shadowplay use lossy compresion and that why it need less transfer, you could search for x264 vfw codec and use it with dxtory (but it needs proper options, cause x264 needs a lot cpu)

Hey, thanks for answering.
I stopped looking here because of the last answer, but I thought someone could have overseen it

I have 119Mb/sec on the Dxtory benchmark and manually put it to 110 for stability. It works fine with every game except The Division, so I'm assuming it's not the write speed that bottoms me out here.
I also use the Matrox codec: http://www.matrox.com/video/en/support/windows/vfw_software_codecs/downloads/softwares/version2.0/  which seems to work perfectly with all the other games, but I may well check out the codec you suggested. Because if the UTVideo Codec is working properly, I don't have a problem with using that.

I'll check it out and give you feedback on it!

[DonTom]

Wow!
This actually did help quite a lot!
Frames drop max to 55 and I can have my many soundchannels again! Thank you!
Funny note, it works better with standard options than with compression on. My recording hdd is one tb, so I don't have to have super small filesize.
Only thing is, that the preview on the videoplayer looks a bit microlaggy, but it could be because of the filesize. I'll try using dxtory for that again and we will see how the finished product will come out.
Thanks again!

[chronosek]

glad to help a bit, but it is strange that it works better without compression, maybe was disk and cpu problem at the same time