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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ gtk frontend for [gpu-screen-recorder](https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/). -This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording a window using the GPU only, +This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording your monitor using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows. This is the fastest screen recording tool for Linux. This screen recorder can be used for recording your desktop offline, for live streaming and for nvidia shadowplay-like instant replay, @@ -23,12 +23,9 @@ For you as a user this only means that if you installed GPU Screen Recorder as a On a system with a i5 4690k CPU and a GTX 1080 GPU:\ When recording Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild at 4k, fps drops from 30 to 7 when using OBS Studio + nvenc, however when using this screen recorder the fps remains at 30.\ When recording GTA V at 4k on highest settings, fps drops from 60 to 23 when using obs-nvfbc + nvenc, however when using this screen recorder the fps only drops to 58. The quality is also much better when using gpu-screen-recorder.\ -It is recommended to save the video to a SSD because of the large file size, which a slow HDD might not be fast enough to handle.\ -Note that if you have a very powerful CPU and a not so powerful GPU and play a game that is bottlenecked by your GPU and barely uses your CPU then a CPU based screen recording (such as OBS with libx264 instead of nvenc) might perform slightly better than GPU Screen Recorder. At least on NVIDIA. +It is recommended to save the video to a SSD because of the large file size, which a slow HDD might not be fast enough to handle. ## Note about optimal performance on NVIDIA NVIDIA driver has a "feature" (read: bug) where it will downclock memory transfer rate when a program uses cuda (or nvenc, which uses cuda), such as GPU Screen Recorder. See https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/ for more information and how to overcome this. -## Note about optimal performance on AMD/Intel -Performance is the same when recording a single window or the monitor, however in some cases, such as when gpu usage is 100%, the video capture rate might be slower than the games fps when recording a single window instead of a monitor. Recording the monitor instead is recommended in such cases. ## Installation This program depends on [gpu-screen-recorder](https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/) which needs to be installed first.\ |