Recording lag

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There is no "process-light" recording for the same system doing all the work. If you want optimum performance for both running the game and recording, then get another computer and install a capture card on it. Some games aren't as demanding on the system, which allows more power for the recording. I wouldn't claim Mirror's Edge to not be demanding. I've played that game myself, and even without recording i would get massive drops in frame rates within certain areas. I'm highly doubting based on the mhz you posted that the 7800 series card is a discrete card or even a 7800 series card. 400mhz for a 7800 card? My 5850 could dominate that.

Note: HD is normally considered 720p. This normally doesn't mean much in the computer world, especially considering video compression and that 720p often translates to a video whose height is 720 pixels (though the "p" in "720p" does not mean "pixels").

Yeah you're right, Window's built in dxdiag program gave me wrong info. The card is actually a 7850 (though I should have known that anyway) with almost 1 GHz on the GPU clock with 2GB overall memory.

EDIT: Good idea Scraper. I'm downloading the latest firmware now; I'll see if that changes anything. Anyway, is there really no good way to record footage with my current set-up?