What is the best free program for recording games?

[papaprek]

Hey everyone, I am looking for a FREE recording program to record my games at 1920X1080 at up to 60 FPS that has the lowest fps drops. I currently use fraps and it drops my fps signifigantly when I record and it takes a TON of space. I know I can compress it later but if there is a recorder that dosn't drop your fps a ton and automatically compresses the video or something like that.

Thanks a ton for anything you guys can give me.

 

i5 - 3570k (at 4.0 GHz)

GTX 660 Ti

8GB 1600 MHz Ram

1TB HDD and 128GB SSD

[Godlygamer23]

I'd wait for Shadowplay.

[Hyydrah]

I'd wait for Shadowplay.

That probably won't be feasible since it will likely be a while before it launches.

[xToFxREAPER]

Hey everyone, I am looking for a FREE recording program to record my games at 1920X1080 at up to 60 FPS that has the lowest fps drops. I currently use fraps and it drops my fps signifigantly when I record and it takes a TON of space. I know I can compress it later but if there is a recorder that dosn't drop your fps a ton and automatically compresses the video or something like that.

Thanks a ton for anything you guys can give me.

 

i5 - 3570k (at 4.0 GHz)

GTX 660 Ti

8GB 1600 MHz Ram

1TB HDD and 128GB SSD

razer game booster has really good built in screen recorder, just need to make a razer account and you can download it

[it24]

I would suggest MSI Afterburner to record, but it makes uncompressed files (so they are very large). So this is probably not what you want. And as for frame drop, i use a 7870 and loose about 20% of FPS. Im not sure if that is any better than what you have though.

[BAPEsta]

You could use Open Broadcaster Software and use the "File Output Only" mode instead of Live mode. Produces fairly good quality and not too big files. Tons of options too.

[IntoTheFog]

Try Action! recorder, it's the best one that I've  found so far. http://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html

[Ninety1Nine]

I would suggest using MSI Afterburner and recording to a sperate drive from the game/OS. It is fairly simple to set up and it can also serve as a GPU monitor. I don't see any frame drop on my 660ti PE with VSync turned on (60hz monitor, Tested on PlanetSide 2). I have tested recording at 30 fps-1080p and played for over an hour without any hiccups or crashes and going through multiple zones of high and low GPU demand.

 

Exception: Around very large groups of players (100+) and large bases my framerate drops to about 40-50, but that happens even when I am not recording.

 

 

 

When Shadowplay is released I would deffinately look into using that.

 

 

I would suggest MSI Afterburner to record, but it makes uncompressed files (so they are very large). So this is probably not what you want. And as for frame drop, i use a 7870 and loose about 20% of FPS. Im not sure if that is any better than what you have though.

 

It is possible to change the compression. Yes there is an uncompressed recording option, but there is also various built in compression codecs that record as .avi files.

[Broseephus]

Try Action! recorder, it's the best one that I've  found so far. http://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html

 

 

Another vote for Action! But it isn't free. Stop being a chump and cough up the $30.

[LogicalDrm]

+1 for MSI Afterburner. I got older hw and it still was playable in BF3 while recording.

[rashdanml]

+1 for both Open Broadcaster and MSI Afterburner. Also adding FFsplit to the list. All 3 allow for compressed recording with good quality and low file sizes.