FRAPS/Other FPS monitoring/video recording software

Cavallino · 16 Dec 2013 at 09:59

Is Fraps the best program for FPS monitoring/Video recording still or are there any other contenders?

Diplexbullet19 · 16 Dec 2013 at 10:36

I hear Afterburner is pretty good and it also keeps an eye on temp and can be used to overclock.

Nevakonaza · 16 Dec 2013 at 10:44

Afterburner is better than Fraps imo,Its free and doesnt have such a impact on FPS.

Although now use Nvidia Shadow play,Which has NO impact on FPS at all its really good,So if you have an Nvidia card i would recommend you give Shadow play a try.

Cavallino · 16 Dec 2013 at 10:57

AMD card here. So will use Afterburner.
I didn't realise afterburner did this. Howabout a recording facility?

HecFam · 16 Dec 2013 at 10:59

In the afterburner settings, you can set screenshot and record to enable on a key press. Works quite well actually. You can set the FPS and the scale pretty easily. When i used it it was rather good quality.

Stoner81 · 16 Dec 2013 at 11:43

I hear Dxtory is pretty good.

Stoner81.

Cavallino · 16 Dec 2013 at 11:56

Cheers all.

Cavallino · 16 Dec 2013 at 12:02

Ok tried the recording function which is great, but recording in 1080 don't have eat up HD space!

How is it may people on Youtube can upload hours of gameplay at +720p? Any tricks involved?

Rainagul · 16 Dec 2013 at 12:08

Cavallino said:
Ok tried the recording function which is great, but recording in 1080 don't have eat up HD space!

How is it may people on Youtube can upload hours of gameplay at +720p? Any tricks involved?

1) Invest in large HDD's for footage
2) Fine tune your settings on whatever recording software to get what you think is the best quality vs disk space

What have you used so far for recording your games?

Cavallino · 16 Dec 2013 at 12:11

I just faffed with Star Wars but literally a 30 second clip yielded half a gigabyte of footage.
1080p at 60fps admittedly

Rainagul · 16 Dec 2013 at 15:03

Cavallino said:
I just faffed with Star Wars but literally a 30 second clip yielded half a gigabyte of footage.
1080p at 60fps admittedly

Using what software?

Also if you are planning on uploading to youtube, there isn't much point in recording 60 fps as youtube only puts out 30 fps max.

Stoner81 · 16 Dec 2013 at 15:37

Stoner81 said:
I hear Dxtory is pretty good.

Stoner81.

Stoner81.

Cavallino · 16 Dec 2013 at 19:43

Using Afterburner Rain.

And cheers Stoner.

Stoner81 · 16 Dec 2013 at 20:07

No worries dude hope you get all sorted out

Stoner81.

Cavallino · 16 Dec 2013 at 21:22

Ok just watched the video and I can see the dood ran a video at 720 but the video size after 30 secs was something like 1GB... is this really how people are recording their gaming clips? What kind of size does Youtube allow?

Rainagul · 17 Dec 2013 at 10:47

Cavallino said:
Ok just watched the video and I can see the dood ran a video at 720 but the video size after 30 secs was something like 1GB... is this really how people are recording their gaming clips? What kind of size does Youtube allow?

Yes this is how people record their gaming clips. It is not unusual to have many GB's of footage after a session of recording.

However, people will then use video editing software in order to put the footage together/edit, and most importantly compress the size of the final clip to something much much smaller (usually in the 50-500mb range) before uploading to something like youtube.

I think the max upload size/length for a standard account these days is 1GB/15 minutes.

Cavallino · 17 Dec 2013 at 11:01

I see thanks. But from what I can see a 1GB file can easily be around 30 seconds of footage.
Are you saying this file should be compressed further?

Rainagul · 17 Dec 2013 at 11:18

Cavallino said:
I see thanks. But from what I can see a 1GB file can easily be around 30 seconds of footage.
Are you saying this file should be compressed further?

In short, Yes.

If you only want to watch your footage locally from your computer, the file size shouldn't really be an issue.

However, if you wanted to have your videos played on the internet, having the smallest file size you can whilst retaining the best quality possible is what you should be shooting for. Viewers aren't going to be able to stream GB's of video.

Cavallino · 17 Dec 2013 at 11:52

No sure I appreciate that but I see many vids on YT at very high res and many minutes but wonder how they are achieving this at such high quality levels and long clips times.

Rainagul · 17 Dec 2013 at 14:30

Cavallino said:
No sure I appreciate that but I see many vids on YT at very high res and many minutes but wonder how they are achieving this at such high quality levels and long clips times.

Compression via video editing tools or compression specific software.