Software for recording games?

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Back in the days I used to Fraps to capture game footage, not sure if they still exist and I would assume there might be better software out there now, so can someone recommend me a good free software that will record the game i'm playing?

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Fraps has been completely overtaken for recording. Other software does it better for less money.

Geforce Experience and the AMD equivalent are the best for low performance impact recording.
 
Cheers guys, I've installed MSI Afterburner and it looks decent, didnt understand how raptr worked. Fraps was good back in the days as it worked without hogging too much fps and was very simple to use. MSI Afterburner in comparison seems a bit bloated with all the other overlocking tools etc.

Not got Windows 10 but i'll make a mental note of that for future.
 
Dxtory, hasn't been mentioned yet. Good program, plenty of options for config as well which is nice. Things like being able to separate your audio channels etc.
 
varkanoid said:
Don't forget if you are on Windoze 10 it has the ability to record your games.
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Its not great currently to be honest needs some work, tried and could not get it to record in BF4 unless in windowed mode and just would not work at all in Arma3.

When it did record in bf4 in windowed mode the recordings did seem pretty decent though.
 
Nemeses said:
Fraps is not that bad, seems to be taking a pasting but it still does a decent job.
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most people set it up wrong or dont have a spare drive for the files that can be big. the thing is i use all progs. the main i use is fraps because sorry its better than shadow play quality wise.

thing is people say about the size of raw files. well you shouldnt be recording on same drive as you play for a start and how much is a normal mech drive 30-40 quid for a terrabyte.

so fraps is fine.just set up right and have different drives to record on.you should do that regardless of software you use.

the best are dxtory/fraps .

at end most of it comes down to user interface and what you feel happy with. then quality and performance.
 
Uncle Petey said:
Have a look at the trial version of Mirillis Action. I found it good enough to be worth paying for.
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I own that too, problem I find is that it drops FPS quite a bit in comparison to recording at the same quality on Shadowplay. That's when measured through Steam or other third party FPS tools.

Also had numerous problems with MA over the past couple of years, audio tracks not importing properly, it recording at half speed so the clip is played back faster etc. Support frankly is very poor.
 
lemonade said:
Cheers guys, I've installed MSI Afterburner and it looks decent, didnt understand how raptr worked. Fraps was good back in the days as it worked without hogging too much fps and was very simple to use. MSI Afterburner in comparison seems a bit bloated with all the other overlocking tools etc.

Not got Windows 10 but i'll make a mental note of that for future.
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Raptr? Its really stupidly easy. To record something that just happened, so say you went on a killstreak in a game and wanted to grab the footage, you set a button for "replay" and it saves footage of a length you chose. Or it has a record function, for which you just press a button to start and stop recording.

Really couldnt be easier.
 
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