Dxtory is not preforming adequately. constantly out preformed by Fraps

[XavierTheTitan]

I need to find a good setup for my Dxtory as it is always out preformed by Fraps.
my rig is
AMD 8350 8-core
2 x xfx radeon 7870 (crossfired)
16 GB of ram
ASUS M5A97 motherboard

I am using Lagarith Lossless Codec and have toyed around with multiple settings.

Playing Dark Souls 2 (Max settings) fraps gets 60 fps at full while recording, Dxtory only gets around 45 at 75%

playing Metro 2033 (Max settings) Fraps gets 50~ Fps at full, Dxtory only gets 35~ at 75%

Playing League of Legands (Max settings)  Fraps gets 70 at full Dxtory only gets 60 at 90% size

what settings and codex should I use to increase Dxtory's performance?

[RobiePAX]

I find your stated numbers odd. Could you clarify what is the target framerate (at how many FPS) you set up both Fraps and Dxtory to record at? Also what is your monitor native resolution?

As for Lagarith Codec, make sure in config tab you set it up to run in YV12 and turned on Use Multi-Threading.

[XavierTheTitan]

My monitors native resolution is 1920x1080.
for Dark Souls 2 and  Metro 2033, both were set to record at 60 frames.
for League, both were set for 70.
setting the codec to YV12 and checking multi-threading only brought the frame rate up to barely 45 full res.

is there any other codecs that could be used or any settings that I can tweak?

[sevo1987]

My monitors native resolution is 1920x1080.
for Dark Souls 2 and  Metro 2033, both were set to record at 60 frames.
for League, both were set for 70.
setting the codec to YV12 and checking multi-threading only brought the frame rate up to barely 45 full res.

is there any other codecs that could be used or any settings that I can tweak?

Try this codec http://youtu.be/uByORmr0zrs

[RobiePAX]

Your Hard Drive most likely is too slow for consistent 60 fps capture. Why do you need to record at such abnormal framerate as 70 fps anyway? Record at 30 fps and you'll be fine.

[XavierTheTitan]

Try this codec http://youtu.be/uByORmr0zrs

the codec did a lot better than the lagarth codec. a constant 60 fps at max settings.

Your Hard Drive most likely is too slow for consistent 60 fps capture. Why do you need to record at such abnormal framerate as 70 fps anyway? Record at 30 fps and you'll be fine.

I have enough RAM and processing power that the 7200 rpm write speed does not really factor in that much. and the 70 fps was just a test to see how high Dxtory would record considering League is an easy game to record.

[RobiePAX]

the 7200 rpm write speed

7.2K RPM is nothing but a tier category to be honest. You can find 5.4K RPM hard drives which read and write faster than some 7.2K ones. You must benchmark the Hard Drive reading/writing speed. For the best performance you need a separate internal HDD just for gameplay recordings and that drive should be "at least" 70 MB/s fast without any other usage except for Dxtory.

Regardless, your primary issue is coming from the fact that you are trying to record at excessive framerate. You don't need more than 30 fps, anything higher is just waste of your computer resources.

[XavierTheTitan]

alright. Ill  see how the Video quality turns out with 30 fps post render. i like to use 60 when I can because post render tends to be more smooth even though the render is only 30 fps. thanks for the help.

[RobiePAX]

Recording in 60 fps and rendering in 30 fps will result in exactly same video performance as recording just in 30 fps. You might hear that you can make it look "smoother" if you turn on Frame Blending (Sony calls it re-sampling). That is a lie, the video actually leaves annoying ghosting effect which makes it harder to view the video which should never be activated for gameplay footages.