I have a Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 gigs of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz RAM, a nVidia 7800GT 256MB PCIeX16, a soundblaster audigy 4 soundcard and a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600. I was playing Supreme Commander and trying to use TVersity to stream The Karate Kid I recorded using the Hauppauge.
Supreme Commander got so laggy even after I stopped the stream it was still lagging. What kindof hardware would allow you to do something like stream an HD video of 2 hours and play a game like Supreme commander at the same time? I am guessing a Core 2 Quad and 4 gigs of RAM would do it.
I think its not so much the power of the PC, as yours is pretty capable, its the efficiency of the software and how it uses multiple cores. I am willing to bet I would have the same issue trying to do those two things at once.
SC uses both cores. It runs painfully slow on single core CPU's. Both the game and video encoding are very CPU intensive tasks so they have to compete for the same resources.
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