Lately I was trying to record some gameplay from my laptop using MSI afterburner. The game was old and was easily hitting 100+ FPS, so I recorded with x264vfw with fast settings at 90FPS.

The game dropped to around 60-70fps, and the CPU almost immediately hit 100°C and throttled to like half the clock than normal. Is this normal? The CPU in question is i7 12650H, normal clocks are around 4.2GHz, at worst case during recording it dipped to 2.7GHz.

What can I do to improve this?

  • Scott@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Laptops just normally run hot. You can try and change thermal pads and thermal paste. Besides that not sure what more you can do.

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      1 year ago

      Shit, why not just 30? The frame rate a viewer needs is very different from the frame rate a player needs.

      • Dettweiler@lemmyonline.com
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        1 year ago

        Considering YouTube and Twitch can’t show greater than 60 fps, there’s really not much point to going higher unless you’re trying to get higher quality slow-mo footage.

        If you’re still thermal throttling, you may want to consider 30 fps.

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        1 year ago

        fast is still consider intensive encoding, so if you want to record higher fps you need to use veryfast. Without hardware based codec everything will be running on CPU so it’s normal to go full steam.

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        1 year ago

        If you can enable hardware encoding it will help. If you can’t you could just compress less so it uses way more storage, but les compute power.

  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    It’s a laptop, I don’t think there is much you can do. They tend to push the hardware to the thermal limits, after which it starts to throttle.

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    1 year ago

    Is it possible to force hardware encoding? Maybe change the format to h265, I’m no expert but that might free some load from the cpu to the gpu.

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    1 year ago

    In addition to what others have said, make sure the vents are not full of dust or obstructed.