Video recording software with specific features needed

[HeftyNugget]

Good evening,

I want to play and record classic games once again as I've found a bit more of free time.
I'm looking for video recording software that is as properly optimised as MSI Afterburner (no FPS drops during recording),

but also has option to choose audio source (as I constantly have a movie or series running in the background, but would rather have game sounds and only in the video.

Thanks in advance!

[Streetguru]

16 minutes ago, Netheous said:

 

Most things just grab windows sound, so I'm not sure if that's an option unless there's like a mixer plug in for something.

 

Why don't you just play the videos on a different device?

[HeftyNugget]

1 hour ago, Streetguru said:

Most things just grab windows sound, so I'm not sure if that's an option unless there's like a mixer plug in for something.

 

Why don't you just play the videos on a different device?

Well,  with fraps I could pick the source - but fraps is so clunky, it eats like 90% of my CPU.

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, Netheous said:

Well,  with fraps I could pick the source - but fraps is so clunky, it eats like 90% of my CPU.

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/anyway-to-record-only-the-game-audio.54105/

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-split-exclude-seperate-audio-sources-off-your-stream-or-recording.8/

[HeftyNugget]

1 hour ago, Streetguru said:

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/anyway-to-record-only-the-game-audio.54105/

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-split-exclude-seperate-audio-sources-off-your-stream-or-recording.8/

I know how to do it - and I won't do it.
I'm looking for software to pick audio source, I don't want a workaround - sorry.

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, Netheous said:

I know how to do it - and I won't do it.
I'm looking for software to pick audio source, I don't want a workaround - sorry.

With OBS you can just switch the workload to your GPU rather than you CPU to not lose any performance

[HeftyNugget]

1 hour ago, Streetguru said:

With OBS you can just switch the workload to your GPU rather than you CPU to not lose any performance

Can I pick audio source with it?

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, Netheous said:

Can I pick audio source with it?

 

4 minutes ago, Netheous said:

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-split-exclude-seperate-audio-sources-off-your-stream-or-recording.8/

That should be it

[HeftyNugget]

1 hour ago, Streetguru said:

 

That should be it

Please stop replying.
I really don't want crappy workarounds with virtual cables, I've had enough trouble with drivers in the past - I don't want anything like that.

I want simple software and you act as if OBS + workaround is a solution to my issue.
If I wanted a workaround, I would just use MSI Afterburner with the workaround.

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Netheous said:

 

The easiest is literally just playing the videos/music whatever on your phone while you game instead of your PC...

I'm pretty sure windows doesn't have the tools to do what you want.

[HeftyNugget]

1 hour ago, Streetguru said:

The easiest is literally just playing the videos/music whatever on your phone while you game instead of your PC...

I've done it before, but it's clumsy.

[Willowwizard]

Other than VoiceMeeter, there isn't any way to capture *only* game audio in Windows with your sound card; what you're asking for is simply not possible.

When (Windows) software outputs audio; outputs through an API to a sound device, the only one being your sound card.

VoiceMeeter creates a virtual sound device to allow a piece of software to output to that virtual sound device, so that another piece of software can record from it and capture only that software's audio. It isn't a workaround, its the only solution other than just buying a separate sound card or switching an operating system that has an audio backend that supports what you need (e.g. Linux & Pulseaudio/JACK).

 

If you do go and buy a separate sound card; you can use Windows' audio mixer to specify which programs output to what, so you can make your movies' sound output go out of the secondary card while the game audio is being output to and recorded from the primary sound card. You'll have to daisy-chain the outputs of the sound cards to the same set of speakers/headphones if you want to hear both at the same time though, and in my opinion that's more of a workaround than any software-based solution is.

[LogicalDrm]

16 hours ago, Netheous said:

Please stop replying.
I really don't want crappy workarounds with virtual cables, I've had enough trouble with drivers in the past - I don't want anything like that.

I want simple software and you act as if OBS + workaround is a solution to my issue.
If I wanted a workaround, I would just use MSI Afterburner with the workaround.

 

It won't be any major software, and most likely you don't get recommendations here. So I would recommend just googling all possible screen recorders, installing them and checking if its possible to select audio source per software vs per device. I sometimes do this for people, but this is so niche reason that you are on your own from my part.

 

So workaround with virtual audio cables would take less time (1-2h at most to test everything) than searching for the one software that helps you.