Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25075055-20131218200450/@comment-5087679-20131225021818

FartnSpartn wrote: We dont all have 1.5k in our pockets to spend on a computer. Seems right now you need all the help you can get, I have a ok laptop, I can run Skyrim fine There is more to recording than being able to run the game "fine". The goal of this wiki and its' community is to provide quality information. Traditional recording is taxing on a computer. Laptop processors and graphics cards are not designed for these tasks.

Sure you can purchase a high end laptop that may be capble of the task if you wanted.

I will agree the requirements list is a little vague and could use some refinement.

For example:

Stating a requirement of an Intel quad core is probably not necessary. While AMD may not have the same clock-for-clock performance, they are more than capable. It also depends on the recording method. Like I mentioned in a previous post, if you are using Nvidia's Shadowplay, you don't care one bit about how strong your processor is, all the work is done on the GPU by a hardware encoder.

Do you need 8 GB of ram? Probably couldn't hurt especially to comfortably record, run the game, and edit the video after the fact. Granted it won't really help if you are running a 32 bit operating system....

Dedicated recording drive? Almost certainly not needed. Even if you DID use one, you probably don't need one thats 1 TB. Let's be realistic, you aren't going to record that much gameplay any time soon. 1 TB of ultra high quality 1080p (read in excess of 20000 kbps) gameplay is going to take at least 50 hours to fill, if not more. Official Youtube bitrates for 1080p video is only 8000 kbps.

A decent GPU? Name some. 1 GB of vram...hardly enough, especially to utilize the official high resolution texture packs for Skyrim. With antialiasing and the official high res packs I commonly see uses between 1300-1500 mb of vram.