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[Sustanon]

Hello guys and gals! I'd like to record some RA2 videos, again. Does anyone have a clue where I can get a h263 Encoder for HyperCam 2 or another better idea? I've searched but to no avail.

 

I only have 2 not-very-strong CPU cores available (Broadwell Core i3-5010U @ 2.10 GHz), so recording in most other formats is not an option and would lag the game horribly.    It has to work on a single core.

 

Any help would be much appreciated, you'll be rewarded with some cool RA2 videos! 

Edited by Sustanon, 14 December 2015 - 04:57 PM.

[GAM3R01]

camtasia studio i think it'd be good

[JonasAKAFaze]

Use Bandicam.

[dsector]

Your best bet is to try with H.264 but it will most likely lag at your resolution.

Edited by dsector, 14 December 2015 - 06:55 PM.

[BornL33T]

Why don't you record as flash file?

[Sustanon]

Thanks guys, so, so much! I will give every single one of your ideas a shot! 

 

I figured that if I set affinity of HyperCam to a single CPU core (RA2 has its own ) it can't possibly lag the game! But the recording itself might get weird and skippy. So I need to find the best possible recording setting that is capable to record my resolution at good quality on a single core (difficult task).

 

Keep the ideas coming though!

Edited by Sustanon, 14 December 2015 - 08:18 PM.

[Niek]

I will remember you. Going to sleep soon.

 

thank you

Your best bet is to try with H.264 but it will most likely lag at your resolution.

 

 

You are always so kind.

[rumblesom]

Try obs Aleks it's what i use

[Sustanon]

I guess "obs" is the name of the program? Haha! Got me thinking about "observer".

Anyways, this is my PC configuration (I built it myself! Am quite proud of that, haha!):

[dsector]

You have a PCIe SSD or are those screenshots from a while ago? I only managed to get a 7.9 hard drive index score with a RAID 0 configuration between two Samsung EVO PROs (not that the Windows score matters for anything).

Edited by dsector, 14 December 2015 - 11:44 PM.

[Sustanon]

Nope, it's SATA 6.0Gb/s! To be exact 128 GB Crucial M550 M.2 Type 2280 and it has seen about a year of quite heavy use before I installed this Windows 7 on it a month ago.

Doesn't change the fact that the CPU is weak though and I have no way of upgrading it because it's soldered onto the mainboard but it has its benefits, it's very small and silent! 

 

[dsector]

Speaking about small and portable, I have one of these that I sometimes carry with me. A fully functional computer (minus the monitor) and yes, you can play RA2 on it

 

Edited by dsector, 15 December 2015 - 04:06 AM.

[fir3w0rx]

Software can't really make that much of a difference in speed (except over-clocking software) imo anyway, and I've been through what you're going through now. At the end I went 'fk it' and bought a much better gpu. There are several decent gpu benchmark sites out there but I've found this one to be pretty good:

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/index.php

Your Intel HD 5500 doesn't rank high enough in my opinion to record in your reso, especially when there are a lot of units on the screen. So here's my suggestion: stop taking Sustanon and probably protein drinks for a little while and for a couple of hundred bucks (maybe cheaper where you're from I don't know), you can get a pretty good high end gpu and not bother with having to tweak codecs and settings and what have you. Not to insult you or anything but I don't know your financial status so if you need it I'll throw in a few bucks if you're short.

Edited by fir3w0rx, 15 December 2015 - 05:34 AM.

[Sustanon]

Well, I installed OBS as Josh suggested and it has everything.

Speaking about small and portable, I have one of these that I sometimes carry with me. A fully functional computer (minus the monitor) and yes, you can play RA2 on it

Haha, that's a Raspberry PI 2. Are you serious about RA2? I assume you didn't try it. Sounds like a contender for a 5 FPS slideshow at lowest resolution, at best, to me.

My PC isn't all that much bigger though! It's just 10cm x 10cm (4" x 4") and 3.5cm (1.5") high.
 

Software can't really make that much of a difference in speed (except over-clocking software) imo anyway, and I've been through what you're going through now. At the end I went 'fk it' and bought a much better gpu. There are several decent gpu benchmark sites out there but I've found this one to be pretty good:

The choice of the right software does make a huge difference. So much more so than overclocking that you can't even compare them.
 

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/index.php

Your Intel HD 5500 doesn't rank high enough in my opinion to record in your reso, especially when there are a lot of units on the screen.

Video encoding isn't usually done on the graphics card. While it's possible, it's definitely not the norm. Your link is most probably about 3D performance and hence irrelevant.

[zzattack]

nuc no suck

[RioXonHotels]

How do u record ra2 @ full screen (Ive managed to record only cropped image of ra2 although other games/desktop applications are recorded normally). Do u use game capture (streched)/window capture/ monitor capture (tried all of them)I guess this is the part where some editing must be done.
P.S. or do u run ra2 (windowed mode? :/ but then it requires to set bit colors to 16 bit which is stupid).

[fir3w0rx]

Well, I installed OBS as Josh suggested and it has everything.

So have you been streaming or recording again?