What recorder is more CPU intensive?

[fangster321]

Hi
I have fraps at the moment but I am thinking of getting game broadcaster for the live streaming because I lag to much when I use xsplit and I think it is due to my CPU. When recording with fraps I don't lag so I was wondering if game broadcaster will make it lag more or less than fraps if I was streaming so I can make a decision on wether to get it.
Thanks
Jeremy

 

[Gibbo3771]

Any form of steaming software is going to be very CPU intensive due to the fact you are playing a game, recording it, encoding it then transferring it over a network.

I used to run a GTX260, AMD6000+ with 4GB DDR2 800, FRAPS ran fine in most games but xpslit make my games crawl to the point of unplayable.

So me personally would say if you can't run 1 type of live streaming software you are going to have problems with the majority, since most are similiar. Also Xsplit is actually the most resource hungry.

 

[fangster321]

Game broadcaster is not a piece of software it is hardware for inside my computer. You may have heard of the Live Broadcaster HD it is like that but does not do all the encoding inside it.

 

[Gibbo3771]

Game broadcaster is not a piece of software it is hardware for inside my computer. You may have heard of the Live Broadcaster HD it is like that but does not do all the encoding inside it.

Learn something new everyday, didn't know that!

I have never used anything like that, the ones I have used are all software based and normally cause hell on my CPU

 

[johnerz]

It may well be the settings you are using the makers list requirements, not they normaly err on the minimum side, but the unit normaly needs more power than they say

Have you looked here?


http://www.avermedia.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?Id=565

 

[fangster321]

Yes i have looked here but it does not give any info about if there will be much frame rate drop.