Xfire video recording and my graphics card

**Watsyurdeal?** · 03-09-10, 01:47 AM

I've been recording footage for BFBC2 for a set of guides and possibly a montage or two. But I want to know something, does recording video cause more wear and tear on my graphics card? Or should it be fine regardless?

It's a EVGA 9800 GT and I'm recording at 100 fps at half frames, so the video ends up being 840 x 524 instead of 1680 x 1050.

**Bunni** · 03-09-10, 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by Watsyurdeal?

does recording video cause more wear and tear on my graphics card?

nope

**Watsyurdeal?** · 03-09-10, 01:56 AM

Ok, just thought I'd ask. Because a had another 9800 GT before and after recording so much footage for World at War it eventually died out. It looked like it was constantly overheating.

**Bunni** · 03-09-10, 01:57 AM

Originally Posted by Watsyurdeal?

Ok, just thought I'd ask. Because a had another 9800 GT before and after recording so much footage for World at War it eventually died out. It looked like it was constantly overheating.

overheating is a different story, buy some gpu heatsinks, get some articsilver and goto town.

**Watsyurdeal?** · 03-09-10, 02:19 AM

Well I'm using this case

It seems to keep things pretty cool and I haven't had a blue screens nearly as often as I used to. If I do I update my intel and nvidia drivers and it fixes it right up.

I'll take a look at arctic silver though...sounds interesting.

**WileECyte** · 03-09-10, 01:16 PM

Xfire video footage should cause no extra load on your graphics card. On your CPU... yes. It's just capturing the rendered frames your card is already producing in-game and encoding it into a video format. Xfire, to my knowledge, uses the CPU for this, not the GPU.