Shadowplay doesn’t work and Game DVR destroys performance (it destroys performance across multiple games if it’s running and maxes out my CPU. It even sets my graphics all the way to low on Apex that I have to turn them back to maxed out manually. Now I have Game DVR off my stuttering’s gone)
Have you tried Twitch?
GameDVR does no damage to my PC when it comes to performance and that with the added fact I don’t even have a PC that is “enough” for 1080p according to the requirements of Apex. But do make sure to start Apex from the Xbox App and not from your Start Menu.
For me it doesn’t break this games performance, it just turns its settings way down so I have to turn them up again. It doesn’t hurt frames though.
With non-UWP game my frame rate gets destroyed when the process Broadcast DVR Server (Game DVR is what this is) starts in the background and it soon turns to slideshow. As soon as I turn it off by killing it in task manager the frames shoot up. In some cases they more than double. Game DVR causes 100% CPU usage slowing the game down.
I’m on GTX 780, i5 4570 and 16 GB RAM. I hit 60 fps in a lot of games and even pass it a lot of the time. In more demanding games that drops, but even then I’m well above 30 (in 9/10 cases) on maxed out settings
I had to use Game DVR because that was the only way I knew to do it (since the game would quit when I tried OBS and of course Shadowplay would record sound but not picture)
In APEX, I just hit Win-Alt-R to start and stop game DVR recording and I notice no difference in performance or appearance. The Xbox app is not even open and the game is started from an icon on my desktop. In DOOM on Steam, I had to put the game in windowed mode, hit Win-G to bring up the game bar and then click on the red dot to start recording. Again there was no performance degradation but I had to stay in windowed mode while recording.
Game DVR use Hardware Encoder like VCE(AMD), Nvenc(Nvidia), Quicksync(intel). For you question you can use some software which records screen to capture DX12 games, so i do this with OBS.
I dislike Game DVR, there is no advanced settings to give user power of choice.
I use desktop recorder for this, who don’t look for a game, who record the entire PC. Camtasia Studio is pretty good for this.
Win + G (In Game)
Strg + Alt + G (Rec Vidoes)
I can’t record gameplay without serious reduction in fps. Any other tips than the allready mentioned?.
I have a GTX980M, and the game plays fine, but as soon as I try to record the fps cuts in half.
There are videos on youtube recorded with GTX970M cards that are smooth, but they don’t mention how they record.
You can try an app called D3Dgear or a capture card like the Elgato HD60, but it’s $$ though.
What storage drive/s do you have? If you’re running from HDD and not SSD that could be the problem. It could be choking on all the data for the OS, Game and DVR feature.
Also, Antivirus=off may help with stuttering.
If you are taking a performance hit, a workaround is to save the replay and record that instead of live gameplay, yes you loose the ingame hud etc but at least it works.
Been using fraps for years myself because the quality was always really good, Fraps ALWAYS hit the fps hard as it recorded in AVI format the, main downside was the video file sizes, a 04:52 1080p vid @ 60fps was 19.5GB!!! I could fill the HDD up in a session and only notice when MAJOR stuttering problems occured while recording (so limited drive space may be one cause of the poor performance while recording) Sadly Frpas doesn’t work in DX12.
For Forza Apex I have recently used Movavi screen capture (Movavi game capture doesn’t work though) but the results weren’t great, minor frames dropped and a graining/fuzzy effect imo.
Finding the XboxDVR works a treat myself but the quality suffers and the lack of user options is a pain… Good enough for the job but still a step back…
Not wanting to spend the bucks for an HD capture card yet but if that “spending money” route was on the cards I’d be looking into recording on a 2nd dedicated PC to eliminate the chances of stuttering on the gaming rig etc…