best game capture software????

[jamese669]

what would be the best game capture software to use wanna do some recording but dunno whats best to use

[Wferr]

Fraps

But beware it steals HDD space like nothing else if filming 1080p

[Eric1024]

Fraps is awesome and easy as hell to use, but if you're trying to record 1080p60fps or higher onto the same disk that you're playing off of you're going to have a bad time since it doesn't compress.

[Lil Chillbil]

Fraps

 

 

 

just pay for it... and don't be cheap

[Maskot]

Software? Hardware is always the best if you can afford it, but software, yeah fraps, and what they said, I suggest a capture card though.

[Eric1024]

Software? Hardware is always the best if you can afford it, but software, yeah fraps, and what they said, I suggest a capture card though.

Capture cards can have some nasty input lag though. I still think software is the way to go.

[Maskot]

Capture cards can have some nasty input lag though. I still think software is the way to go.

If you buy an expensive one, it's quite minimal maybe 50-100ms.

[DjArtifact]

Dxtory is the best out of all of the software, a million times better than Fraps, but you'll have to do some configuring to get the file sizes down.  Dxtory only lowers your FPS by 5 or so while Fraps tends to lower it quite a bit more.  If you have the cash though the live gamer HD is the best option hands down.  No input lag, no performance hit and the files are compressed.

[Youbetternot]

bandicam or OBS

[allthatremains94]

Dxtory

 

The youtubers love it.

[SteepGnomeKing]

If you can wait than see what Shadowplay has to offer when/if it comes out. Maybe it might be a viable option.

[DjArtifact]

Dxtory

 

The youtubers love it.

True, all of the big name youtube guys use dxtory.

[DjArtifact]

bandicam or OBS

Bandicam- nope

OBS- good for streaming but dxtory is still better for recording.

[Eric1024]

If you buy an expensive one, it's quite minimal maybe 50-100ms.

50-100ms is a ton, especially for fast-twitch gaming like fps. That and free/cheep software is a lot better than a $200+ capture card from an economic standpoint.

[Terminashunator]

MSI Afterburner.

Not many know that it has a video recording feature that allows compression on the fly.

[Youbetternot]

Yes msi afterburner 

[TopWargamer]

Switched over from Fraps to DXTory and love it. It seems to doesn't take up as much hard drive space, and it doesn't take away some of your FPS like with what Fraps does. 

[Maskot]

50-100ms is a ton, especially for fast-twitch gaming like fps. That and free/cheep software is a lot better than a $200+ capture card from an economic standpoint.

So Nvidia put an H.264 encoder on their kepler GPU's. Why? They knew it would be useful for game capture so that the CPU doesn't stress out. If your CPU can handle the game capture, fine, but if it can't, a capture card is good, but I still think a capture card reigns supreme because it is made for the purpose of capturing video, and 50-100ms ins't actually that much, and if you're playing an fps competitively, you obviously wouldn't skimp on the capture card, but a casual user could easily purchase a $200 capture card that will be ever reliable and then he can put the settings on his game much higher, since I know fraps is an fps hog, and it doesn't even compress the file to H.264 like a capture card would.

[Eric1024]

So Nvidia put an H.264 encoder on their kepler GPU's. Why? They knew it would be useful for game capture so that the CPU doesn't stress out. If your CPU can handle the game capture, fine, but if it can't, a capture card is good, but I still think a capture card reigns supreme because it is made for the purpose of capturing video, and 50-100ms ins't actually that much, and if you're playing an fps competitively, you obviously wouldn't skimp on the capture card, but a casual user could easily purchase a $200 capture card that will be ever reliable and then he can put the settings on his game much higher, since I know fraps is an fps hog, and it doesn't even compress the file to H.264 like a capture card would.

You're entirely missing my point. Not everyone has $200 to spend for some casual capture. And cite your source for fraps being an FPS hog.

[jamese669]

humm ill try dxtory then

[_ASSASSIN_]

Dxtory, you can modify it much more than FRAPS, which takes uncompressed footage, which takes up more space, you can decide how to compress video with Dxtory, it gives you much more options

[Maskot]

You're entirely missing my point. Not everyone has $200 to spend for some casual capture. And cite your source for fraps being an FPS hog.

Source: Personal use, dropped my fps about 10-20 so I had to turn off msaax2 on a 1080p screen using a 3225 with intel hd 4000 graphics, later put a 650 ti in there, but the HD graphics could run most directX 10 games on medium settings and Direct 9 games on high-full, but when I tried to record Left 4 Dead 2, my fps went from around 40-50 to 30-40.

[Eric1024]

Source: Personal use, dropped my fps about 10-20 so I had to turn off msaax2 on a 1080p screen using a 3225 with intel hd 4000 graphics, later put a 650 ti in there, but the HD graphics could run most directX 10 games on medium settings and Direct 9 games on high-full, but when I tried to record Left 4 Dead 2, my fps went from around 40-50 to 30-40.

Okay, gotchya. Does your frame rate drop at all between recording and not recording when you're using the 650ti instead of integrated? I would venture a guess that since iGPUs are inherently memory-bandwidth hogs, that fraps's use of memory bandwidth was effectively throttling the iGPUs bandwidth.

[Maskot]

Okay, gotchya. Does your frame rate drop at all between recording and not recording when you're using the 650ti instead of integrated? I would venture a guess that since iGPUs are inherently memory-bandwidth hogs, that fraps's use of memory bandwidth was effectively throttling the iGPUs bandwidth.

This was a clients computer that I thoroughly tested, for some reason he insisted on 16GB of memory.

 

When I wasn't recording it was a constant high 40s, then went down to mid 30s when I turned the recording on, didn't get a chance to record with the 650 ti though.

[Zeal]

DxTory with Lagarith Lossless Codec and a properly set up Virtual Audio Cable to separate audio channels.

 

If you're just doing a straight upload to YouTube after recording/rendering without edits, use YV12. If you're going to do CC and some editing in AE, record in RGB.