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Inspiron 3668, upgrades to record gaming
We have the setup described below which I have used for office work and its worked perfectly. I have now passed this to my son to do schoolwork on and play games on.
The good news is, he can play Minecraft, Fortnite and Halo (on Steam) great.
But, he wants to try recording his games to post to share on social.
He’s tried several screen recording tools and gets the same problem whenever he tries it, the games become jerky and don’t always respond to inputs. They still run, but the experience jumps about.
The Machine is…
Dell Inspiron 3668 (Desktop)
Processor: Intel Core (TM) i7-7700 CPU 3.60Ghz, 36—Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0GB
Total Physical Memory 15.9GB
Available Physical Memory 7.02GB
Total Virtual Memory 20.9GB
Available Virtual Memory 9.59GB
Page File Space 5.00GB
We have two monitors, an old VGA which plugs straight into the machine, and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, which runs a second monitor. Its not a fancy monitor. The video details being
Primary Video Card: Intel HD Graphics 630
Adapter type: Intel HD Graphics Family, Intel Corporation compatible
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB
Secondary Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Adapter Type: GeForce GTX 750 Ti NVIDIA compatible
Adapter RAM 2,147,483,648 bytes
We tried the benchmark tool UserBenchmark (results attached) and it suggest the graphics cards are limited. This may be the case, but until its recording, the games run great, so I do wonder if there is a hard disk lag, or if a graphics are a bottleneck. Or even if stepping up to 32gb memory would help.
I'd appreciate if anyone has any ideas what the component might be that’s causing this and how I can address it. Im happy to go with a new GPU/more memory and a faster SSD drive, but I if there are any ideas what might be best first thing to try I would prefer not to upgrade all three, if one upgrade would fix it?
It also says the NVIDIA video card is running very poor and “Way below expectations”. Would that mean that the video adapter is just too old/underrated, or since it says it is below expectations could that mean there is something I could do to get it used more effectively?
Any idea greatly appreciated.
speedstep
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July 14th, 2020 19:00
Getting GTX 1650 might help. However before you buy anything I would try OBS. Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. For Windows OSX and Linux.
If you do not have at least 16 gigs of ram I would start there.
Video programs can steal up to 2 gigs of system ram
https://obsproject.com/
https://obsproject.com/wiki/OBS-Studio-Quickstart
RoHe
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July 15th, 2020 16:00
@tonybrownt You didn't mention the version of Windows or the drives available for storage.
Assuming Win 10, it has a build in app to record games, and other things, as .mp4 files. Probably going to use lots of storage space so make sure there's room on the data drive.
If you have an SSD as boot drive and a HDD for storage, make sure the .mp4 files are saved on the HDD or they'll gobble up the SSD.