External would be slower than the local drive I'd think. Try 50 (I hate 30 fps).

My external is USB 3.0, it seems to be ok. I am recording at 60fps now and its smooth as tits. So I'm happy. Cheers.

It's no way near as bad, but its still there every now and again. Thanks for your help all the same.

Hi there,

I am having some trouble with recording in game video, mostly with games such as BF3 and DayZ.
Firstly, when I record, my frames drop to around 20-25 FPS, secondly, when I review the video the first 10 seconds or so are fine, but after that it looks like my frames are at 1FPS,
like the video is skipping.


I have video capture set to 50FPS, full size, and both windows sound and mic sound recorded. I have tried half size and various different capture settings.

My PC specs are:

ASUS P8Z77-V Intel Z77 DDR3 SLI+Crossfire Wi-Fi PCI-E3.0 LGA1155
      
Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge 3.50Ghz 8MB 95W LGA1155

Corsair Hydro Series H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
   
Mushkin Blackline FrostByte 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1600
      
Sapphire Radeon HD7950 OC 3GB GDDR5    

I have in game settings maxed in BF3 and pretty much the same in DayZ.

Any help would be much appreciated,
Cheers,
Tim

oh right, disappointing....