I want something I can quickly use to record gameplay so recording out individual frames and compositing them in post is out of the question. I thought recording smooth video was a solved problem by now. My goal here is just to learn how to create solid looking gifs/gifvs and Youtube videos. The game is just a simple scene and it's running at thousands of frames per second. Lowering the resolution and framerate helps, but it's never smooth like it is ingame.

And whether or not I'm recording to the same drive as the game is on doesn't seem to matter either. This makes no difference at all from what I can tell. I've also tried recording to different harddrives, including standard drives and SSD's. I'm not really sure how to see if it's working overtime or not, but it usually starts making noise when it is and it's quiet now. Either application is barely using my CPU when recording. I don't get where the choppiness is coming from. It's choppy no matter what settings I use for that matter. OBS lets me save uncompressed video, but it chops like a bastard. Shadowplay looks the smoothest, but even at the highest quality setting the compression look a bit S*** in my opinion. I've tried both OBS and Shadowplay so far and they are both too choppy for my liking.

Bandicam video is choppy