Game recording software

snowdog · 17 Sep 2017 at 19:56

Hi,

Used to use Fraps ages ago, but what is there around around these days that can record games well while encoding them without to much performance loss?

I'm looking for something to record mainly older games in 4k, without needing terabytes for half an hour of play!

Is there a lot of difference between all the applications, performance, filesize, and limitation wise?

snowdog · 17 Sep 2017 at 20:02

is OBS easy to use/set up/finetune quality/performance balance wise?

Nvidia here.

EDIT: Shadowplay sounds good, GPU encoding instead of cpu. Perfect for older games in 4k imo.

snowdog · 17 Sep 2017 at 21:45

Ok, perhaps I'm blind, but where do I enable Shadowplay, bind the keys, set quality settings, and set recording folder?

EDIT: Derp, in in-game overlay settings, but there's only a destination folder setting, no quality settings, I assume the default is ok? It'll record UHD resoultion?

snowdog · 20 Sep 2017 at 23:27

https://youtu.be/6wBnsFonkHc

Well seems good doesn't it?

No impact on game performance either, 50-60 fps no problem.

at first I thought it was stuttery, but it appears to be a playback problem.
What do you guys use to play UHD? VLC is unwatchable. On youtube it is watchable in 2160p though? I think it uses software decoding or something, but at the same time, I only have about 30% cpu use (across all 4 cores) when playing this.

EDIT: Odd, it just showed 4k as an option, along with 8 otehr resolutions, now only 1440p and 1080p?