Capturing Resident Evil 4 gameplay with MSI Afterburner

[ratchet]

I was just wondering if anyone else has had issues using MSI to record their gameplay footage?

I have such stutter and lag that it's not worth using....and before you retort that my rig isn't powerful enough to render and encode video capture while running the game, be assured that my rig is more than sufficient

For e.g I can use MSI to record Crysis at 2560x1440p on high settings with no stutter at all....I can also use MSI to record Doom on 1920x1080p res with high settings with no issues at all

Yet for the life of me I cannot use MSI to record RE4 even on 480p resolution, and as for 1080p, forget it it's an absolute mess

To help answer your questions in advance, yes I'm using the exact same settings in MSI to record Doom as well as RE4...but Resident Evil 4 is the ONLY game I can't use MSI to record gameplay from as the actual mp4 video when you play it back is unwatchable

[talgaby]

Both Crysis and Doom 4 are using primarily the GPU with only little CPU overhead, whereas RE4 relies a lot on CPU. I would suspect your CPU not being able to handle the additional requirements. The other possibility is that you are trying to capture the game in windowed mode, it is allergic to that.
At any rate, OBS and XSplit capture the game rather well, use one of those.

[ratchet]

No its definitely not my CPU. ...it's powerful enough to handle an old game like RE4 so something else is going on here
Like I said I can capture Doom and Crysis on ultra HD resolutions which are a lot more demanding on my hardware, with no issues at all

Just for an experiment I tried MSI Afterburner on RE4 at a resolution of just 360p and the game capture quality at 75% and it's still a laggy unplayable mess

Now come on if it can't capture footage with such reduced overhead and low demand as that then there's some serious incompatibility between Resident evil 4 and MSI

[ratchet]

Lol I finally found the solution to this annoying problem:

I set the framerate in MSI afterburner to capture at 60 frames per second and it works flawlessly now.....For some reason if you set it to 30 fps it will be a laggy unplayable mess
So quite ironically setting it to a higher fps solved the problem
Maybe because RE4 is locked at 30 frames per second, it somehow messes up MSI?

I don't know, anyhow I'm just happy that I fixed the damn problem