Need A Program That's Better Than FRAPs

[Durvelle27]

Do you guys know of any recording program that's less taxing as FRAPs as its taking to big of a hit on FPS in games ?

 

[BrightCandle]

Dxtory with the bitstreaming protocol is certainly less taxing on the CPU. It still hits the FPS a bit though, but its better than most of the other options.

 

[taq8ojh]

Dxtory is great indeed.
Two downsides:
1) it's not free
2) tooltips for everything don't make any damn sense at all, since the author is japanese or something, so in case you don't understand some of the options, you're screwed.

Good alternative is MSI Afterburner. Both programs took away about 1FPS in my case.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

http://obsproject.com/

set it up to record by selecting File Output Only under Broadcast Settings in the Settings menu

if you look around on the forums there you can get more information on how to further configure the settings more specifically to how you wish to use it

I'm also a fan of Dxtory, but as has already been pointed out, its not free and not particularly user friendly either. MSI Afterburner was decent when I last used it what was probably over a year ago now, so maybe its gotten better, but I can't imagine its better than OBS.

 

[Durvelle27]

Dxtory is great indeed.
Two downsides:
1) it's not free
2) tooltips for everything don't make any damn sense at all, since the author is japanese or something, so in case you don't understand some of the options, you're screwed.

Good alternative is MSI Afterburner. Both programs took away about 1FPS in my case.

I actually was using Afternurner for awhile but now it won't record anymore

 

[smakme7757]

I use this every now and again.
http://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html

I thought it was just crapware, but it's really good. I've taken a lot of demo videos with it.

If you do heaps of recording you might want to invest in a capture card. I have no experience with them, but I'd presume they would offload the CPU.

 

[Durvelle27]

I use this every now and again.
http://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html

I thought it was just crapware, but it's really good. I've taken a lot of demo videos with it.

If you do heaps of recording you might want to invest in a capture card. I have no experience with them, but I'd presume they would offload the CPU.

Yes i do alot of video recording

 

[smakme7757]

Yes i do alot of video recording

Then I'd look at getting a capture card.

 

[Durvelle27]

Then I'd look at getting a capture card.

No more slots one PC

 

[smakme7757]

No more slots one PC

You could look at a USB capture card then.

 

[Durvelle27]

You could look at a USB capture card then.

non are HD

 

[smakme7757]

Then I guess you're shit outa luck!

 

[Durvelle27]

Then I guess you're shit outa luck!

I found a program called Mirillis action and its working pretty good with no FPS lost

 

[takeru]

http://www.bandicam.com

i like bandicam. can record straight to x264 also to save space.

 

[Durvelle27]

http://www.bandicam.com

i like bandicam. can record straight to x264 also to save space.

How's the quality



This was done with Mirillis Action



http://youtu.be/XJH62Q1af50

 

[smakme7757]

I found a program called Mirillis action and its working pretty good with no FPS lost

I know, I linked it in the 6th post

I use that for Desktop recordings because FRAPs didn't (doesn't?) support the Windows 8 Desktop.

 

[Durvelle27]

I know, I linked it in the 6th post

I use that for Desktop recordings because FRAPs didn't (doesn't?) support the Windows 8 Desktop.

Oh i didn't see that. Thx bud

:biggrin:

 

[takeru]

How's the quality



This was done with Mirillis Action



http://youtu.be/XJH62Q1af50

did you record to avi in mirillis? mp4 doesn't go past 720p recording for me in mirillis. bandicam doesn't limit the resolution going straight to x264, but it does lose a few frames. it also only has mpeg2 or wav audio. no aac audio. if mirillis can record to mp4 without a resolution limit that would be nice.

 

[Durvelle27]

did you record to avi in mirillis? mp4 doesn't go past 720p recording for me in mirillis. bandicam doesn't limit the resolution going straight to x264, but it does lose a few frames. it also only has mpeg2 or wav audio. no aac audio. if mirillis can record to mp4 without a resolution limit that would be nice.

It has AAC, MP4, and Wav audio and yes still still limits 720p for MP4 files but AVI can go upto the original image size and there are pretty small in size compared to FRAPS

 

[ytgamers]

Do you guys know of any recording program that's less taxing as FRAPs as its taking to big of a hit on FPS in games ?

Smartpixel Camera is way much better than fraps for game video capture. I like it, http://www.smartpixel.com.

 

[BrightCandle]

If you put any sophisticated compression to the video on the fly you are going to have worse performance and its going to have to be low quality to work at all. The alternative is to basically write whole images with minimal compression. That produces bigger files, more IO but it can then be compressed in a high quality way later. There isn't a magic solution because computers aren't fast enough to compress high quality full resolution video while also running a game.