Increasing Performance by Changing your Windows Settings
Certain factors like Visual effects, Display settings, and Hardware acceleration can affect the performance of your screen recordings. To increase the performance of your Windows PC and in turn, your screen recordings, you may have to customize the settings.
Changing or controlling the appearance of Windows improves the effectiveness of your screen recordings. You can change the Windows appearance before you begin the screen recording.
To control the appearance of Windows PC, click Tools >> Settings >> Display.
Visual Effects
The window outlines can be seen without its contents, while dragging, on selecting the Disable "Show window contents while dragging" option. The painting effect that occurs while dragging a window is disabled. By hiding the inner contents, the display performance can be improved considerably. Select the Set plain desktop wallpaper option, if you do not want the wallpaper to be recorded during your screen recording. You can choose the background color to be applied to the desktop. You can select the Disable Windows graphics effects option to avoid Windows effects, like animated menus, to be displayed while recording.
Change Windows appearance during recording
The Disable Screen Saver option can be checked to temporarily avoid the screensaver from being recorded. To hide the desktop items during your screen recording, select the Hide desktop icons option.
Auto-hide the taskbar option hides the taskbar during recording.
Display Settings
You can choose the resolution and Color quality for your screen recording. Resolution and color quality represents the sharpness and clarity of the video. By default, the current window resolution and color quality is selected.
Hardware Acceleration (Windows XP/2000)
You can disable hardware acceleration to avoid a blank screen while recording video from media players, such as QuickTime, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Player. Select the Disable hardware acceleration during recording option in the Hardware Acceleration section. (this option is visible only in Windows XP / 2000).
These windows settings can improve the performance and enhance the quality of your screen recordings. The settings can be changed back to original after completing the screen recording.
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