Video Recording

Pc-Gamer12 · 27 Jul 2013 at 15:48

Whats the best free video recording software to record game play and in-game sound ? dont really want to spend £25 on fraps !

Thanks

Busa · 27 Jul 2013 at 16:39

PC Games forum may be a better place to ask.

Pc-Gamer12 · 27 Jul 2013 at 16:56

Ive tried msi afterburner and its abit hit and miss, sometimes i don't know if im recording and other times the recording is laggy, any suggestions ?

BuToNz · 27 Jul 2013 at 17:14

DXTory is considered the best free alternative to Fraps, plenty of tutorials on how to set it up on youtube.

It's a bit more complicated but much less taxing on the system than Fraps.

arc@css · 27 Jul 2013 at 17:20

Yes, I've heard that DXTory is one to definitely consider.

Pc-Gamer12 · 27 Jul 2013 at 18:10

think ill try msi again

Pc-Gamer12 · 27 Jul 2013 at 18:49

OK so im liking msi, i seem to be getting a bit of lag though with simple games such as little inferno ?

~>Dg<~ · 27 Jul 2013 at 19:42

depends on your pc spec. if you recording at a high quality and n new games at decent settings you need a powerful pc regardless of what program you use.

Nevakonaza · 28 Jul 2013 at 04:33

I find MSI Afterburner doesn't really affect game play all that much when recording unlike Fraps,which will literally eat half your frame rate straight away and cause it to be laggy,which of course isn't good if your playing something like an online FPS.

Pc-Gamer12 · 28 Jul 2013 at 09:09

I've sorted It all now thanks, how do I upload videos to YouTube in 1080p ?

Simi · 28 Jul 2013 at 09:23

Google

Pc-Gamer12 · 28 Jul 2013 at 09:28

if i just upload a video normally it only goes up to 480p?

Confused Stu · 28 Jul 2013 at 09:32

Pc-Gamer12 said:
if i just upload a video normally it only goes up to 480p?

Check again in a bit. When I upload 1080p video the 480p option is available straight away, with the higher options appearing a few minutes/hours later. Guess it's to do with the extra encoding time needed for the higher resolutions.

Longbow · 28 Jul 2013 at 11:16

I ran benchmarks a while ago and Dxtory out performs both Fraps and Afterburner. It takes less resources to run using the Dxtory codec, meaning less performance drop, and has much better options.

Although Afterburner is free, Dxtory is not.

Lostmyrag · 31 Jul 2013 at 12:28

Dxtory everytime, with the Lagarith codec. Boom. Done.

whitetop · 31 Jul 2013 at 14:48

Do not record to the same hard drive your playing the games on you will get lag that way.

MSI afterburn is good but has to be set just rite for it to run smooth and work rite.

Fraps is good but uses too much for recording unlike most other software.

like above as well this all depends on your pc specs as well if recording 720p-1080p you need a good pc and a big hard drive to store the uncompressed video file.

Direct the recording video to a 2rd hard drive while playing the game on the 1st. I have not used Dxtory myself but have used Fraps and afterburn Fraps uses uncompressed code so a massive file but afterburn uses a code you set it to which is good.

V4NT0M · 31 Jul 2013 at 18:36

I use afterburner.

Twirlywoos · 31 Jul 2013 at 18:50

Pc-Gamer12 said:
Whats the best free video recording software to record game play and in-game sound ? dont really want to spend £25 on fraps !

Thanks

if you have a nvidia card just wait for shadow play before splashing some cash. Should be released next month
http://www.geforce.co.uk/whats-new/articles/geforce-experience-official-release

you can use playclaw, which had a beta 5 release recently but is still being updated to a full release due in August.
http://playclaw.com/forum/index.php?/forum/3-english-forum/

there is also mirillis
http://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html

Pc-Gamer12 · 2 Aug 2013 at 16:42

hi guys, sorry to bring this up again but ive been using msi afterburner to record and ive recorded 2 videos but now its stopped working and i press f9 to record and nothing happens ?

tlrBeta · 7 Aug 2013 at 11:26

Not in answer to your question I am afraid, but another thing to check is OBS - that does local recording these days and probably has a lot of features the others don't

PS - It is free