In-Game Video Capture Software

[Dirk Diggler]

What's the preferred choice for capturing game footage? Afterburner seems a bit crap, and I prefer not to install GFE if it can be avoided.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

@shankly1985 @Fishbait thanks, I'll give OBS a try. And I agree, AMD would have been a better choice for this... If only I could game at 24fps like the videos.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

If you use the correct settings. OBS does more than Nvidia/AMD drivers but it also needs more understand to get the best from it. Its not just simple click and record unless you happy with rubbish image quality.

Any suggestions on decent settings?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Cheers @shankly1985

 

[Dirk Diggler]

JackFrags Video settings are very good. if you want even better IQ lower the CQP results in better quality but bigger files size and worst performance. 18 is a very good starting point.

This is working perfectly, although I had to change the res from 1920*1080 to 3440*1440.

Is there any way to set up the hot key so that you can trigger it during a game? It seems to be setup so that you need to be always recording? Plus, if I forget to switch recording off it's just going to go until it fills the SSD.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Using Quick Sync with your Intel CPU is also a good option in OBS Studio.. i've done 75Mbps with next to no perf loss

How do you enable that?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Since Relive i stopped using alternatives as our capture software has the lowest performance hit and highest quality.

Unfortunately, your "high end" GPU's have the biggest performance hit so Relive not an option for me.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

In the encoder settings there should be a QuickSync option. However looking at your sig it's only your first system that supports it. Another alternative is to use the encoder on your Nvidia GPU, which will be NVENC. This setting will also match the performance/quality of GFE.

Yes, I've got NVENC set as the video a couple of posts up advises it. It's working great, I just need to suss how to know when I've toggled it on/off in-game.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Interesting, third party testing and my own results say the opposite, and I've tried them all prior to Relive.

Is Relive exclusive to AMD cards?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Of course, it's the AMD equivalent to ShadowPlay.

Then unfortunately that would be the performance hit I couldn't bear.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Settings > Hotkeys.
You can set keybinds there for recording, streaming etc.

Yes, I've set it to CTRL+F11 but while gaming I've got no idea whether it's recording or not as there's no indicator that I can see?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Ah, no idea. Would've though so, but never needed it other than when I alt tabbed to check

Yea, I can do that... but would hate to forget to toggle it off and go on playing for hours... until my M.2 drive fills to the brim.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Or do what I did. Get in after a night on the tiles, turn pc on & load a game, then go make a cup of tea.
Few hours later put down book & wonder why pc is on.
Dagnabbit, still recording!!

Why is it that the aspect of that little anecdote that amuses me the most, is that you would read a book after a night on the tiles.