Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25075055-20131218200450/@comment-25075055-20131225110315

Zimakaru wrote: 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. Yes, a quad core is generally necessary for games like Skyrim, dual core processors do not cut it. I know about Shadowplay, but I'm pretty sure it's still not a finished product.

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. This is where you are totally wrong. A dedicated hard drive is almost certainly needed for ANY recording package, if you've ever used Fraps and recorded Skyrim at 1080p @ 50fps, then the drive gets filled fairly quickly. And I don't care for Google's official bitrates, nobody on YouTube will record at the EXACT bitrates they provide. You don't understand that write speeds need to be high to record with most recording programs and that low write speed = poor quality = loads of lag.

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. AMD Radeon HD 5700 ? It has 1GB Dedicated RAM and has no issue whatsoever recording Skyrim at 1920x1080 50fps.

Please, before you try to come back with an argument as to why my specs are invalid or wrong, understand that the specs are like that for a reason: to prevent people who don't actually understand video editing / recording from making content for the wiki YouTube channel. The exceptions to these requirements are Arena and Daggerfall, which I'm told are fairly simple games in terms of graphics, so don't need some high quality system. Those requirements, however, are necessary for Oblivion and Skyrim: they will not be changing.