Best way to record PC gameplay

Sin_Chase said:
1080i

= lame!

1080p at minimum needed as far as I am concerned. 1080i might be fine for consoles but not PCs.
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Hence why I recommended the Live Gamer HD :)

1080p capture/streaming with no (miniscule) system overheads.

Cannot fault it and the updates just make it better and better.
 
What would explain random lag spikes while recording btw? Happens with both Fraps and MSI Afterburner. While I'm recording at a constant 45-50FPS, it's as if my HDD starts loading and is like "lol, sec, I'll stop doing anything even though nothing spectacularly demanding is going on" dropping my fps to 1-3 then going back to normal
 
Afran, probably allocation of a new file to record to, assuming both Fraps and Afterburner have the 4GB filesize limits still. A limit you will also have if recording to FAT32 volumes.
 
I use Fraps. Fps takes a huge hit though. Ingame recording in bf3 drops to around 90 fps, down from 130 ish.

Will look into afterburner.
 
Can anyone help me out here please? Downloaded the new MSi Afterburner and I still have the exact same issue that all the past Afterburner's had.

Basically I want to record voice and gameplay but it won't record both and i've tried every combination possible. It'll either record my voice and no gameplay sounds or gameplay sounds and no voice.
 
Does Afterburner even support multiple audio streams?

Fraps only recently just got the Stereo Mix + Mic thing sorted.

Something like DxTory will allow you to add multiple audio streams of anything you want.
 
buchtis said:
Can anyone help me out here please? Downloaded the new MSi Afterburner and I still have the exact same issue that all the past Afterburner's had.

Basically I want to record voice and gameplay but it won't record both and i've tried every combination possible. It'll either record my voice and no gameplay sounds or gameplay sounds and no voice.
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Try FFsplit, audio source + microphone fully supported. Easy to set up, you will be recording within minutes trouble free.

FFsplit
 
Sin_Chase said:
Afran, probably allocation of a new file to record to, assuming both Fraps and Afterburner have the 4GB filesize limits still. A limit you will also have if recording to FAT32 volumes.
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i've had several files from MSI afterburner in the 20's of GB so i doubt that's the problem if he's using afterburner
 
Sin_Chase said:
Does Afterburner even support multiple audio streams?

Fraps only recently just got the Stereo Mix + Mic thing sorted.

Something like DxTory will allow you to add multiple audio streams of anything you want.
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Yeah you can record game sound + mic sound with MSi Afterburner, it is not supported out of the box you have to do a little work around. Easily found via google
 
~>Dg<~ said:
i use fraps tried em all .

people getting bad frames have it set wrong .
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R.P.L said:
The fact is that it still costs significantly more FPS than Afterburner (based on my experience and everything else I've read). I seem to remember you saying previously that you locked your FPS at 60 and didn't get any FPS loss, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't cost you FPS compared with not recording.

For value for money (as it's free) and ease of use I like to use Afterburner, and I've never had any problems with the quality of recordings.

Just a note re Afterburner - you need to screw around with codecs if you want to import the footage into Sony Vegas, as otherwise you can't see the video.
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I really love how DG keeps saying this when it comes to Fraps. There's very little settings to play with. So there really isn't much to go wrong with it.

It's either full size or half and picking your fps setting. So, if one didn't have a crazy fast system, or has a fast system but the hard drive lets them down. Regardless what settings one sets up in Fraps, it's going to make very little difference.

You need a good system for Fraps.
 
I'd like to record some Dayz footage, but I play with Eyefinity. So my resolution will be 5760x1080. Can any of the mentioned programs just record a fixed portion of my screen? Say 1920x1080, cutting off the sides?
 
voorhees1979 said:
Yeah you can record game sound + mic sound with MSi Afterburner, it is not supported out of the box you have to do a little work around. Easily found via google
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Does it put both mic and game sound onto 1 single merged audio stream? If so that is no good to me

If you want the best, fully featured product which gives you 100% control use DxTory, it will do anything the other applications do if you want to configure it like that.

You can use _ANY CODEC YOU WANT_ (Choose something like Lagarith for low compression, low overhead but more space used or something like Xvid for high compression/less space but bigger overheads)
At any resolution - Be it crop or resize. None of this full or half size rubbish
Add as many audio streams as you want, from different sources and have them recorded as separate individual tracks

Best of all, once you decided on how you want it to work you can change it and set it for each individual game you play (a different profile for each individual game) That activates automatically when the process is detected. No more 100s of video tracks all bundled into the same root folder.

I'd like to record some Dayz footage, but I play with Eyefinity. So my resolution will be 5760x1080. Can any of the mentioned programs just record a fixed portion of my screen? Say 1920x1080, cutting off the sides?
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Assuming Dxtory works with eyefinity, I assume it does. It will do it. Configure a resolution as a crop rather than resize.

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Scale to 100% as normal. Tick Clipping, type in 1920x1080 as a clipsize with Horizontal/Vertical alignment set to Center and job done. Centre portion of the image is recorded.
 
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