Increasing Performance by Changing your Windows Display 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 Options.

Visual Effects

While dragging, window outlines can be seen without the contents by selecting the Disable "Show window contents while dragging" option.  By hiding the inner contents, the display performance is 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.