If neither of those work you can try reformatting your windows harddrive. However, if you don't have the money to spend on a new PC there's always workarounds like recording (and playing) at a lower resolution, lowering the graphical options ingame and using the Task Manager to shut down unneeded/unwanted background processes that might be hogging your system resources.

If you buy a PC for less than that you're most likely going to have to replace it a lot sooner which will be more expensive in the long run. Windows 7 is just as good in the way of functionality plus it lets you have unlimited ammounts of RAM (there is of course a limit but it's so high that normal desktop PCs won't be reaching it any time soon) and it supports DirectX 10/11.Ī new PC in the price range of 1100-1700 Euros will last you about 2, maybe 3 years if you're willing to stretch it a bit, before you'll want to start upgrading things (mainly the GPU and maybe adding some more RAM). Furthermore there's no need to still be using Windows XP. I wouldn't recommend trying to upgrade your current components because your motherboard/psu will just limit how much the system can be upgraded and how effective the upgrade will be. With this said, i think your problem is simply that your computer is outdated and the easiest way to solve this problem would be to try and buy a new one.

And by doing some quick research on your computer components i found out that both your processor and your GPU are 4-5 years old, which is a really long time when it comes to computer components.

This is why you generally need a decent computer to record decent quality gameplay footage. The PC is already occupied with running the game and then on top of that you make it work even harder by making it record and encode video and audio and store it on your harddrive. Well capturing video is a demanding task.

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