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Recording on AMD

Dicehunter

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So recording on Nvidia is a breeze thanks to Shadowplay but the Raptr software is pure butt ooze in comparison.

For some reason it cuts off 1/3 of the film image, Doesn't record all of it and crashes games.

Any good recording software out there that doesn't have a huge performance hit and file size ?
 
Use the latest MSI Afterburner 4.1 as it now has support for VCE. When I tested it I had no issues and quality was great.

Quick rundown of how to setup:

Get afterburner 4.1
go to settings
click on video capture tab
see where it says video capture format click on the "..."
click the pulldown under encoder
choose VCE - AMD blah blah blah
click configure and set quality to where you want
click ok
set container format to Matroska MKV
Set quality % to your liking... I used 85% and it was nice
The rest is pretty much up to you. Frame size is obviously what you want to record at and all.

Give her hell :)


I've never used the Raptr software so can't tell you what might be causing that issue.
 
YB2ndBEST said:
Use the latest MSI Afterburner 4.1 as it now has support for VCE. When I tested it I had no issues and quality was great.

Quick rundown of how to setup:

Get afterburner 4.1
go to settings
click on video capture tab
see where it says video capture format click on the "..."
click the pulldown under encoder
choose VCE - AMD blah blah blah
click configure and set quality to where you want
click ok
set container format to Matroska MKV
Set quality % to your liking... I used 85% and it was nice
The rest is pretty much up to you. Frame size is obviously what you want to record at and all.

Give her hell :)


I've never used the Raptr software so can't tell you what might be causing that issue.
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Thanks for the reply, Tried it and it wasn't my cup of tea so I ended up going with Mirillis Action, Amazing piece of sftware and uses AMD App so the performance is awesome :)
 
YB2ndBEST said:
Use the latest MSI Afterburner 4.1 as it now has support for VCE. When I tested it I had no issues and quality was great.

Quick rundown of how to setup:

Get afterburner 4.1
go to settings
click on video capture tab
see where it says video capture format click on the "..."
click the pulldown under encoder
choose VCE - AMD blah blah blah
click configure and set quality to where you want
click ok
set container format to Matroska MKV
Set quality % to your liking... I used 85% and it was nice
The rest is pretty much up to you. Frame size is obviously what you want to record at and all.

Give her hell :)


I've never used the Raptr software so can't tell you what might be causing that issue.
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Any reason for mkv?
 
Sorry for jumping in, but rather than start a new thread I thought I'd ask here.

So far I've been using the following settings in afterburner. Does this look okay, or is there some other setting that might serve me better?

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YB2ndBEST said:
Use the latest MSI Afterburner 4.1 as it now has support for VCE. When I tested it I had no issues and quality was great.
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Dicehunter said:
Thanks for the reply, Tried it and it wasn't my cup of tea so I ended up going with Mirillis Action, Amazing piece of sftware and uses AMD App so the performance is awesome :)
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Do either of those two record your desktop as well or do they just record games?
 
Goose said:
Do either of those two record your desktop as well or do they just record games?
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Mirillis does games, Desktop and partial desktop meaning you can drag and drop the "Recording" window where you want it to record :)

Honestly in my testing it's on par with Nvidias Shadowplay on my 780 Ti.
 
Dicehunter said:
Refused to work for me sadly :(
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I won't lie it was a nightmare to get working. Refused to work with mantle/the latest drivers(not an issue with latest version) and constantly tried to save itself to C despite setting it to go to L drive :D.

When it's working it's good but I only use the DVR capability to save moments I thought were cool. Other than shadowplay I haven't found one that does that it's either record all or nothing :(.
 
Dicehunter said:
Thanks for the reply, Tried it and it wasn't my cup of tea so I ended up going with Mirillis Action, Amazing piece of sftware and uses AMD App so the performance is awesome :)
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2nd mirillis action - back when rome 2 total war came out I tested All recording software and mirillis action was the best for what I wanted.
 
This was my advice in a similar thread:

Disco_P said:
If you can use Raptr's DVR or Geforce Experience's Shadow play. When I was recording I found Shadowplay was much more efficient at recording than anything that MSI Afterburner had to offer.

You can play about with using the dedicated hardware on your intel cpu or amd/nvidia graphics card within afterburner by selecting "external plugin" under "video format". In my experience with nvidia this caused a 30% drop in frame rate and also caused the game to stutter.

If you want your CPU do do the work with AB the best codec I found was x264vfw. Download and install it then select VFW compression in afterburner. Click the ellipsis next to that and select "x264vfw" and then configure. A lot of the settings I left on default as I was unsure as to what they did but I changed preset to "ultrafast" and Rate control to "Single pass - bitrate-based (ABR)" and changed the bitrate to about 20000.

This will leave you with quite small files and not a huge CPU overhead. Quality won't be perfect but it makes a negligible difference once youtube compression has had it's way with your final video.
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I know that afterburner can record desktop but it might require an ini tweak. Shadowplay does it for certain.

Msi afterburner also offers pre recording such that you can capture cool moments after they happen.
 
I haven't used the AB setup in a while as I pretty much only use OBS. With that though I don't need/ use VCE. Not sure why the AB didn't work out, but I've heard nothing but great stuff about that Mirillis proggie.
 
YB2ndBEST said:
I haven't used the AB setup in a while as I pretty much only use OBS. With that though I don't need/ use VCE. Not sure why the AB didn't work out, but I've heard nothing but great stuff about that Mirillis proggie.
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I ended up buying Mirillis it impressed me that much, Fantastic little program, Easy to use, Awesome recording, Pretty much Shadowplay with a different name albeit not as many options for bit rate, Recording res and quality, But a good buy :)
 
I recently tried mirillis out again and it does work rather well, but I actually achieved the same exact thing from using dxtory with the amd app. All you have to do is download the codec for it. Pretty nice and it actually allows you to use directshow output so you can stream using OBS. That's probably the biggest reason I can't use mirillis is lack of streaming output.
 
YB2ndBEST said:
I recently tried mirillis out again and it does work rather well, but I actually achieved the same exact thing from using dxtory with the amd app. All you have to do is download the codec for it. Pretty nice and it actually allows you to use directshow output so you can stream using OBS. That's probably the biggest reason I can't use mirillis is lack of streaming output.
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What was the bitrate, File size and overall quality like please ?

*EDIT*

Anyone know what the option "Optimize videos for upload and share" does ? I've tried with it on and off and the file size is exactly the same.
 
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Never had such issues with AMD replay, ive experienced that it wont record properly when my card is oced or when the game is in windowed mode but 95% of the time it works perfectly. Btw, where's your 980 at? :D
 
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