Best quality PC screen capture software?

[Travercraig]

I was wondering what the best screen capture software would be out of OBS, Fraps and Nvidia shadow play. I've heard that fraps has the best quality due to it's lossless capture and what not. But of course file sizes are massive and you can get massive frame drops with a bad set-up (one drive etc). With shadow play I've noticed the video and especially the audio quality are lower than fraps. But the advantage is that there is zero impact on game performance. And OBS (which i stream with) from what I know has two encoders both the standard x.264 as well as the option to use nvidia nvenc. I've never actually tried OBS for local recordings, i'm assuming the nvenc will be similar to that of shadow play with less quality but better performance overall. Apart from in OBS you have more options so the audio quality issue in shadow play can be eliminated in obs via the nvenc encoder. Also I was wondering what encoder does fraps use? I'm rendering my projects in Adobe premier pro using the h.264 codec setting and i would have thought matching the raw file with the rendering settings would give me the best results. So ideally using a program that encodes in h.264 like OBS might be best? What are your guys opinions? And which would you say gives the highest quality footage suitable for adobe premier pro and YouTube?

 

Thanks, GR412

[packetpusher]

Shadowplay for games, OBS for everything else. I use H.264 for everything .

[ProdigyzMined]

I use OBS for everything, using H.264... looks great

[DotoreN]

Shadowplay for games, OBS for everything else. I use H.264 for everything .

 

This.

 

Shadowplay is amazing if you have nividia with minimal ( to none ) fps loss.

[Nexxus]

I can tell you if picture quality is what you need shadowplay is not the way to go, but if you need the FPS shadowplay is the only way to go.

[Travercraig]

I can tell you if picture quality is what you need shadowplay is not the way to go, but if you need the FPS shadowplay is the only way to go.

Yeah i noticed that, would you say obs is better than fraps or not? Thing is i'm not sure what fraps uses as it's codec. Where as i know OBS uses h.264

[Nexxus]

no experience with obs

[stconquest]

I can tell you if picture quality is what you need shadowplay is not the way to go, but if you need the FPS shadowplay is the only way to go.

 

 

no experience with obs

 

lol

 

:huh:

[Nexxus]

lol

 

:huh:

its pretty damn common knowledge that shadowplay cant be touched for fps when capturing. 

[stconquest]

its pretty damn common knowledge that shadowplay cant be touched for fps when capturing. 

 

For realz: 

[evilarceus]

I like ShadowPlay since it doesn't take a huge hit on your FPS.