Fraps alternative

[KingKeith55]

I have been looking around for awhile for a fraps alternative.

 

And I can't find anything that works. 

 

Things that I have tried (So don't suggest them):

 

- Bandicam (They changed a lot of it and now I honestly think it's junk. Never was a fan of it anyway, videos come out crap quality for me no matter what I do.)

- Dxtory (Piece of garbage, the only game it ever detected or recorded was minecraft. Tried everything they said, tried everything people said and nothing was fixed. Their support wasn't helpful at all.)

- Fraps (CPU hog, 10 minute video without lossless on is bigger than windows OS itself.)

- Hypercam (Just no.)

- Raptr (It sucks.)

 

 

Also I have an AMD GPU. So shadowplay is a no-go. Don't suggest AMD Raptr, we all know it sucks. Also, OBS Doesn't like my screen resolution and it refuses to record it correctly. I am on a CRT if you're wondering what reason it would have to not like it.

 

And for DXTory, it just doesn't recognize any games except for minecraft. I tried windowed and fullscreen, changing settings and it still won't detect anything.

[Enderman]

xsplit?

thats the only other one I can think of

 

and bandicam looks great if you enable H.264 and set quality to 100

[KingKeith55]

xsplit?

thats the only other one I can think of

 

and bandicam looks great if you enable H.264 and set quality to 100

Bandicam with H.264 doesn't even record for me, it just crashes. At least it did when I tried using it.

[Xaring]

I used to use Bandicam, as stated above it can actually record really good if you set it up correctly. 

On the other hand, currently im using OBS, I'm the problem you are having is due to incorrect configuration of your resolution. You should give it another try.

 

(The only reason I rather nVidia GPUs over AMD is shadowplay... That thing is epic. <1% performance loss...)

 

What is your system config? maybe its just not fit for recording.

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I remember using CamStudio when I was a kid, but I wouldn't actually suggest it at all; at least for recording games.

[Burusutazu]

OBS, ShadowPlay, the new Windows10 recording feature....

I'm surprised Fraps is even a thing still.

[techguru]

I have been looking around for awhile for a fraps alternative.

 

And I can't find anything that works. 

 

Things that I have tried (So don't suggest them):

 

- Bandicam (They changed a lot of it and now I honestly think it's junk. Never was a fan of it anyway, videos come out crap quality for me no matter what I do.)

- Dxtory (Piece of garbage, the only game it ever detected or recorded was minecraft. Tried everything they said, tried everything people said and nothing was fixed. Their support wasn't helpful at all.)

- Fraps (CPU hog, 10 minute video without lossless on is bigger than windows OS itself.)

- Hypercam (Just no.)

- Raptr (It sucks.)

 

 

Also I have an AMD GPU. So shadowplay is a no-go. Don't suggest AMD Raptr, we all know it sucks. Also, OBS Doesn't like my screen resolution and it refuses to record it correctly. I am on a CRT if you're wondering what reason it would have to not like it.

 

And for DXTory, it just doesn't recognize any games except for minecraft. I tried windowed and fullscreen, changing settings and it still won't detect anything.

your setting these programs up wrong then if none work for you 

obs is what most people use

[KingKeith55]

your setting these programs up wrong then if none work for you

obs is what most people use

Obs does not like my crt monitor. It won't work correctly. Do you think they made it with crt users in mind? No.

Dxtory just seems to be problematic for some people. And some of them I don't enjoy using and don't work well for me.

[techguru]

Obs does not like my crt monitor. It won't work correctly. Do you think they made it with crt users in mind? No.

Dxtory just seems to be problematic for some people. And some of them I don't enjoy using and don't work well for me.

if your crt can display the standard resolutions..then theres no problems

[LogicalDrm]

Obs does not like my crt monitor. It won't work correctly. Do you think they made it with crt users in mind? No.

Dxtory just seems to be problematic for some people. And some of them I don't enjoy using and don't work well for me.

Softwares don't care how your monitor operates. As long as resolution can be recognized. And if you are on about 4:3/5:4/16:10/16:9 thing, you will get black bars if you don't have wide screen. OBS like all modern software are defaulted for widescreen footage. The video files will be as your resolution, but viewers will still see black bars and see them in services like YT and Twitch.

[KingKeith55]

So I actually got OBS to work correctly. It used to have an issue where my resolution wouldn't scale correctly where parts of the screen wouldn't show up, and parts of it weren't being captured for whatever reason (Downscaling it down to a ~720p resolution fixed it.)

 

 

Not sure if this is good settings, but:

 

Bitrate - 10,000kb/s (60 fps 720p)

x264 CPU Encoding preset - superfast (On a FX-6300 sooo... not sure if I should put it any better)

 

(probably belongs in a new thread)

[DeadSpiderVenom]

Try checking out playclaw, they sell it on steam