Many things can influence this... it may be your computer that has difficulty because the encoding is something difficult for the computer (it all depends on the hardware), it may be your software, you have badly optimized the recording parameters, you record with the CPU or the GPU? is your GPU Nvidia or AMD? In short, a lot of unanswered because your question was empty of information useful for an answer. let's imagine you have a fairly recent Nvidia card (1070 or newer) which has their own video encoding chip (Nvenc) Use OBS studio to record your screen, it's simple, powerful and reliable. in OBS, add screenshot or game capture. then go to settings, if you don't know how OBS works, go see tutorials on YouTube, there are thousands to get you started go to parameter, then "output" then in the "record" tab in the output mode you must select "advanced" Type: Standard Recording Path: what you want Format: Mp4 Encoder: NVIDIA NVENC H.264(new) Rate Control: CQP CQ Level: 25 Keyframe: 0 Preset: Max Quality ( if your graphics card is at 100%, reduce the parameter here ) profile: High Case Psycho Visial Tuning GPU: 0 Max B-Frames: 2 then go to "video" on the left in the 2 drop-down menus, choose the resolution of your screen or that of your choice. Downscale Filter: Lanczos FPS ( 60 )