Recording game play videos

Socrates470BC · 10 Oct 2011 at 16:47

I was reading about the Asus GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II 1536MB GDDR5 graphics card, and in the section headed ASUS Gamer OSD, I noticed the following "Real-time overclocking, benchmarking and video capturing in any PC game."

What caught my interest about this phrase was the video capturing feature.

My son wants to be able to make game play video's and at the same time record what he and his friends are saying on Skype. Then edit and upload his videos to youtube. We can do this on his current PC using FRAPS.

Do these powerful new graphics cards offer better video recording? Do they come with better video recording software solutions?

shootersam · 10 Oct 2011 at 18:27

It think this is it, I have not done too much research on the matter.
http://www.asus.com/999/html/share/2/icon/15/index.htm
*edit* found this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH6bIrIkReY

CinderzFTW · 10 Oct 2011 at 21:37

I use MSI Afterburner to record my game play. It doesn't use as much processing power from the CPU and GPU as FRAPS does. Plus with MSI Afterburner, the quality is very good! And also you can overclock your GPU with it

Get the BETA 7 version, BETA 8 is buggy!

Use something like Leawo AVI Converter to make the file smaller.

CinderzFTW · 10 Oct 2011 at 21:40

If you want to benchmark an overclocked GPU properly, get Unigine Heaven. Run it at max settings, full resolution and max AA to get the best results. Watch the temps by detaching the monitoring segment of afterburner and watch out for artifacts.

Enjoy overclocking xD

Socrates470BC · 11 Oct 2011 at 12:22

CinderzFTW said:
I use MSI Afterburner to record my game play. It doesn't use as much processing power from the CPU and GPU as FRAPS does.

Thanks, I will give it a try.

Reaper 392 · 11 Oct 2011 at 12:38

CinderzFTW said:
If you want to benchmark an overclocked GPU properly, get Unigine Heaven. Run it at max settings, full resolution and max AA to get the best results. Watch the temps by detaching the monitoring segment of afterburner and watch out for artifacts.

Enjoy overclocking xD

the graphics card test in OCCT is much better because it records all the errors, which are generally difficult to see otherwise. it can reveal an unstable overclock a lot better than everything else ive tried

i'll also second the MSI afterburner beta. in amongst its quite well hidden menus you can take screenshots in a range of formats (not just .bmp), record video + sound in a couple of formats (not just uncompressed), display your FPS and overclock your graphics card. its arguably the best overclocking software out there for graphics cards

olivier renault · 11 Oct 2011 at 13:42

Another plus for MSI Afterburner (the latest Beta iirc, the official one has sound problems).

I've captured some L4D2 and F1 2011 without any issue or performance degradation, and the file size and quality are reasonable. It's also tweakable of course.

CinderzFTW · 11 Oct 2011 at 13:52

Beta 8 version is very buggy for some reason.

I have had sound problems with crackly sound or no sound what so ever.

Beta 7 is still the best one out there at the moment.

Download Beta 7 here

lemoon · 13 Oct 2011 at 03:28

I don't know that one, as I use Camtasia Studio to recording, very good, and can DIY what you wants, such as music, photoes...