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Video Recording software?

Sirius Bandshee

Sirius Bandshee

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so guys after going thought the forums, any of you current recording players recommend a decent software to record my gaming feed at all? ]

Cheers Shiko

 
I have no knowledge of recordings program but a program called OBS is good for me, I'm sure other geeks will flock to this post and explain to you in detail in a moment hehe :D

 
OBS has been solid for me the past few days. Records 1 hour of data at like 1gb-2gb. Only problem I have with it is that I cant run Arma in fullscreen because it alt tabs automatically for some reason

 
You could try Shadowplay for Nvidia or Gaming Evolved (GVR) for AMD, both of these will give you the option to save the last 20min (or whatever you specify).

The only issue I've had with Gaming Evolved is when trying to save files larger than 3.9gb, adjust the settings to stay below 3.9gb and it works fine.

 
OBS hands down, run it at roughly 4000 kb/s, leaves you with nice small files that are still just about readable. If you want readable usernames all the time, atleast 6000, if you want no quality loss whatsoever, 15000.

 
Connor_Portsmouth said:
OBS hands down, run it at roughly 4000 kb/s, leaves you with nice small files that are still just about readable. If you want readable usernames all the time, atleast 6000, if you want no quality loss whatsoever, 15000.
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The x264 encoding settings is where you get most bang for your buck. I think 21 is default, 0 is lossless. Higher encoding = more cpu needed. Lower = less but  larger file sizes and possible I/O bottlenecks.

 
OBS, Dxtory and Shadow if you have Nvidia, like others said.  

And I will add Mirillis Action to the list. It's what I use, completely satisfied.

 
XLegendary2150X said:
Fraps is the best recording program 

http://www.fraps.com/
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nope...

My recommendations:

Bandicam

(AMD) Gaming Evolved: can do the same as Shadowplay (Replay) AND it can capture your gameplay like every other program.

(Nvidia) Shadowplay: You can capture the last 20 minutes of your gameplay

OBS: I only used it for livestreams so far but I heard that it is not that bad either.

Hope I could help.

 
If you just want to record incidents in the game as and when they happen, then I think something like shadowplay (for nvidia) or game DVR (for AMD) is what you want.

These utilize the gpus built in hardware h264 video encoding capabilities, which aren't being used during gaming, thus the impact to your games performance while recording is very low.

They're also free to use and the video quality is typically very high. They work by recording the last 10 or so minutes of gameplay constantly and when you get RDM'd or something and want to capture it, you press a hotkey and it'll flush those recorded minutes of play to disk.

If you want to record the entire session of gameplay, or stream, then there are multiple choices. I'd imagine the best solution is one similar to the one I currently use when I stream. I have an avermedia extremecap u3 and a live gamer hd card that I use on a 2nd pc, to capture all the video output from my gaming pc. This captures everything you do with zero performance impact on the gaming machine as it's not doing any recording, another machine is. Obviously this requires 2 pcs and some expensive hardware so this might not something you want to do.

Alternatively you can use shadowplay again (I presume the AMD offering can do the same) to constantly record, however this is pretty demanding in terms of disk space. At 60fps/50Mbps/1080p shadowplay typically uses 3.5-4GB of data for 10mins of game play. So a 4hr gaming session would use anywhere from 85-100GB of data.

You can always reduce the quality of the recording, but obviously this is dependent on what you want the video for, if you're just trying to capture incidents, I think the rolling 10mins of video is the best solution and at that point, the quality is quite useful for seeing everything that happened as you see it, if you're uploading to youtube for a lets play or something, again you want a high quality setting and you're going to edit the video anyway, so the size isn't probably that much of an issue. If you're streaming, then a 2 pc setup is probably what you want to aim for anyway.

That's my view on it anyway :)

 
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