recording software Is AMD Recording Software Any Good?

[Jackelberry]

Hello, Recently an r9 390x has gone on sale for a superb price in my region and I am thinking of buying it, however I like to record epic moments in my games, which i currently use nvidia shadowplay feature for.

Being able to record the last 5 minutes of gameplay is very convenient and saves a lot of time and hard drive space (sifting through footage for highlights)

I have heard that amd does support a VGR software similar to shadowplay (play.tv or something?), but I have a few questions about it:

Can it record last x minutes of game play (ongoing buffer)

is it reliable?

How big is the performance hit whilst recording?

Overall verdict on how it performs?

 

I would appreciate ANY input regarding the amd vgr, as the 390x is a ripper deal, but i don't want to risk forgoing the ability to record.

 

Cheers

[You_are_a_cunt]

Or you could just use OBS on record mode (doesn't have to be streaming to record)

[Starelementpoke]

3 minutes ago, Jackelberry said:

Hello, Recently an r9 390x has gone on sale for a superb price in my region and I am thinking of buying it, however I like to record epic moments in my games, which i currently use nvidia shadowplay feature for.

Being able to record the last 5 minutes of gameplay is very convenient and saves a lot of time and hard drive space (sifting through footage for highlights)

I have heard that amd does support a VGR software similar to shadowplay (play.tv or something?), but I have a few questions about it:

Can it record last x minutes of game play (ongoing buffer)

is it reliable?

How big is the performance hit whilst recording?

Overall verdict on how it performs?

 

I would appreciate ANY input regarding the amd vgr, as the 390x is a ripper deal, but i don't want to risk forgoing the ability to record.

 

Cheers

Eh, just use OBS.

[spartaman64]

neither nvidia nor amd software is any good compared to OBS

[tlink]

amd has amd raptr but most people dont like it. amd doesnt have something close to shadow play on that part. it cant record the desktop and stuff like that only games that are in the amd library. i find it bloadware but you should just watch some youtube tutorials about recording with it and see if it fits your needs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptr

 

 

[Jackelberry]

1 minute ago, spartaman64 said:

neither nvidia nor amd software is any good compared to OBS

Can OBS record only the last x minutes of gameplay. for example a cool moment happens that i couldnt predict i can just hit the replay jey and save the last 3 minutes with sahdowplay, does this work well on amd?

[Jackelberry]

9 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

Eh, just use OBS.

yes but can obs record past moments that happened or is it just start and stop recording?

[spartaman64]

5 minutes ago, Jackelberry said:

Can OBS record only the last x minutes of gameplay. for example a cool moment happens that i couldnt predict i can just hit the replay jey and save the last 3 minutes with sahdowplay, does this work well on amd?

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-use-the-replay-buffer.103/

[spartaman64]

2 minutes ago, Jackelberry said:

yes but can obs record past moments that happened or is it just start and stop recording?

yes it can

[Jackelberry]

2 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-use-the-replay-buffer.103/

wow i had no idea, is it any good? low performance hit?

thank for the reply

[spartaman64]

3 minutes ago, Jackelberry said:

wow i had no idea, is it any good? low performance hit?

thank for the reply

select the gpu instead of the cpu in the encoding options and it will be minimum hit as it uses the h.264 encoder on the gpu which from my understanding is a separate processor from the gpu. people under appreciate how awesome obs is lol

[kerbingamer376]

Yeah, I'd use OBS. 

[Jackelberry]

4 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

select the gpu instead of the cpu in the encoding options and it will be minimum hit as it uses the h.264 encoder on the gpu which from my understanding is a separate processor from the gpu. people under appreciate how awesome obs is lol

Awesome! Completely free right?

[spartaman64]

4 minutes ago, Jackelberry said:

Awesome! Completely free right?

yep 

[Jackelberry]

22 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

yep 

60 fps, high bitrate? All teh good stuff?

[spartaman64]

2 minutes ago, Jackelberry said:

60 fps, high bitrate? All teh good stuff?

all in the settings