Capture software

[DragonTamer1]

I've been using Shadowplay to record a lot of my game clips. I like how I can set it to save the last 5 mins and just press a button and save a moment. It makes it easier when trying to make a video because all of the clips are right there and you don't have to scrub through hours of footage for 30 seconds of humor. Recently I've been looking to upgrade my GPU and was looking at only 1060s to retain that Shadowplay functionality. I figured I would expand though and look at RX 480s as well and try to find another recording software to use.

 

Windows 10 comes with some recording software but it only works on some games and when I was playing around it was using up way more of the system than it should have been. It's output quality was also really low and pretty much unusable.

 

I learned earlier today that MSI afterburner has a recording software built into it that works with games, but it only works in games like the Windows 10 software. Its library of recognized games seems to be larger and I may be able to use it in other applications but I'm still playing around with it for now. Its output quality is good and it doesn't hit the system resources hard at all (I didn't even notice a difference really). But it does have some quirks and a very round about way of capturing clips (involving multiple keystrokes).

 

TL;DR  -  Does anyone know of any software I can use to capture the last 5 mins or so of whatever I was doing for later that is easy to use, has good quality and is not hard on system resources (other than the ones listed above)?

[Electronics Wizardy]

OBS seems to work well for this.

[DragonTamer1]

10 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

OBS seems to work well for this.

I do have OBS installed but I can't get the damn thing to work properly. I've been trying to watch videos on how to set it up and everything. I also didn't see a setting for clip capturing. These moments are never planned and I don't want to leave it running all the time and have it chewing through what HD space I have left.

[Cereal5]

8 minutes ago, DragonTamer1 said:

I do have OBS installed but I can't get the damn thing to work properly. I've been trying to watch videos on how to set it up and everything. I also didn't see a setting for clip capturing. These moments are never planned and I don't want to leave it running all the time and have it chewing through what HD space I have left.

I know a fair bit about OBS, I use it to stream and make youtube videos. Let me know if you need help with it. It won't go back and capture your last five minutes but you can record with it