What do you record your gameplay with?

[Santipro]

Hello, I wanna start making good quality videos on YT because I think I will like it and because my friends always tell me I'd be successfull because of my good humor and clear voice. Anyway, my problem is I dont know what recording soft/hardware I should get so I thought I'd ask what you guys use/recommend to help me decide...

[orangecat]

If you can't use FRAPS try the video recorder in MSI Afterburner its pretty good.

[Thony]

OBS / Shadowplay

[flibberdipper]

OBS for streaming, and FRAPS for regular gameplay, since the nice quality and surprisingly low resource hit more than make up for my typical 30GB or more file sizes (OBS just.... YOUR BITRATE IS ALMOST THE SAME SO LOOK AS GOOD YOU STUPID FUCK).

[Alpha11]

Use Dxtory, it gives me little lag and high quality recordings! 

[Santipro]

thx ^^

[Kevin_Walter]

OBS and I've been testing out the Gaming Evolved GVR lately, and it's quite nice. Though obviously, that's not applicable for anyone running nVidia.

[Swndlr]

obs aint even a poll choice? smh

[flibberdipper]

If you set the settings right, it will look better than with FRAPS. I saw a video on it, and it was really good. Don't remember the name of it though so... Yeah.

OBS seems to be more resource heavy for me, oddly enough.

[DEDRICK]

I guess it really comes down to what kind of gameplay videos you are going to upload.

 

If you have an AMD video card use Bandicam /w AMDAPP x264 for almost no performance lose captures but the files are very hard to edit because of the container it saves them in.  Alternatively you could use dxTory or Bandicam with Lagarith or UT Video Codec for low overhead "lossless"  captures but you need very fast writing hardrives and ALOT of space but they will be max quality and easy to edit.  Fraps is inferior purely for the fact that you cannot use a different codec.

 

OBS and Xsplit are good because you can set up your scenes very easily, webcams and such and then upload directly to Youtube with very little editing.  Everything is encoded in x264 so the filesize is low.

[SkilledRebuilds]

I use the LGP.

It does pick up visual tearing...

Apart from that, it's pretty good.

[flibberdipper]

That is rather strange...

Yup. I don't think I'll be streaming much until I get my hands on a 1231 v3.

[flibberdipper]

Most likly not. You're not using WeeFee WiFi are you?

I am, but it's pretty good WeeFee. Like, pings in the mid-teens, maybe mid-20's. All this through a couple walls, using my rig tethered to my netbook with an ethernet cable.

[iJarbus]

If you have an Nvidia graphics card GTX650 or higher it might be worth giving shadow play a look, it's free, can be set so you can always grab the last 15mins of video so you don't miss something cool that's unexpected and it uses the inbuilt encoder on the GPU so the performance hit isn't to much.

[Roddy189]

I use shadow play too, if you can use it then I highly recommend. Only issue I have is that I can't record when set to 5760x1080 even if the game I'm playing is set at 1920x1080 (using one monitor obviously) not tried in a while though so this may be fixed? The stream to twitch feature saves time too. Pretty much zero impact from what I've noticed with my experience with it.

[DeViLzzz]

Why the hell would anyone want 30 GB file sizes?

[relaxation]

Dxtory software before shadowplay/VCE/GVR were a thing. Sorry for necroing but I found this feedback (from 2015) helpful!

 

Dxtorys video codec [w/out compression/YUV420] was more reliable than the Lagarith codec for my long plays (1h 30m) and can achieve 60FPS if I wanted (on a FX6300), however discovering UtVideo recently, my first few tests showed that it performs/looks indistinguishable as the dxtory codec at only 56% of the size! That being crucial to me for what was originally a 149GB recording would only be 83GB if the codec proves it's just as good at transitions as it is on static-ish backrounds [pinball tables that don't change perspective often].

 

Shadowplays 50Mb/s preset would dial in at around 34GB which is even more incrediable to me but I don't currently have a current card that records to x264 for a quality comparison and I havent found the settings or right x264 encoder to use to get something on the fly via CPU.

 

I think my last long video [720p] which was a little over an hour at 120-130GB compressed via x264 to 1.7GB, its bitrate maxs at 30Mb/s for transitions and it sits at 1Mb/s to 3Mb/s during gameplay... could videocard x264 be variable too? I'm stuck between a new HDD or videocard x264 recordings for future recordings as I am low on available space.

 

Edit, installed fraps and obs, got some benchmarking done for frametime/fps results here

Order=no recording,dxtory,lagarith,obs,UtVideo601,UtVideo709

Y=baseline|R=29.97|G=30|B=60

top=forced flipqueue|bottom=no tweaks

The game I play wants you to record at 60fps or use obs. this particular game slows down if game is rendered slower than 60fps, with a majority of frame drops you could see a ~7-8ms stutter in other methods

going to use 50Mb/s via OBS in the future, saved me some money.

[vandanved]

Shadowplay/Fraps