whats the best recording program i can get?

[Baumy15]

ive been using fraps for a while now and I want to do more recording with better in-game graphics settings but with fraps as it hogs a lot of resources it lags my game and I have to turn the settings down. ive been looking for some other programs and I tried raptr but that only records very few of my games or cuts out and corrupts what I have recorded. im not sure how OBS works yet im reading through some reviews etc.
what recording programs have good recording quality (720P/1080P 30/60FPS and a decent bitrate and are free or reasonable cheap?

pc specs:
i5 4690K @4.4Ghz
8GB ram 2400Mhz
gigabyte 280X

thanks for all your help and time!!

 

[yorel140]

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) its a really good one. It makes the games playable while recording unlike fraps..
For example, my setup its:

CPU: FX 6100 (6cores)
GPU: ASUS Strix GTX960 2GB DDR5 OC
RAM: HyperX Fury 1600MHz

Its a setup for playing games at 1080p on medium high with the new games, and yes... i know the CPU istnt too good and its old but anyway i tryed recording Shadows Of Mordor on high/very high and during the gameplay i didn't have less than 30fps, Crysis2 ultra recorded and only had <30fps on big zones with a lot of explosions or a lot of graphical load.

So, i would use OBS, because it can bring you a good quality and the files have a low size. Hope i helped you 😀

 

[Baumy15]

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) its a really good one. It makes the games playable while recording unlike fraps..
For example, my setup its:

CPU: FX 6100 (6cores)
GPU: ASUS Strix GTX960 2GB DDR5 OC
RAM: HyperX Fury 1600MHz

Its a setup for playing games at 1080p on medium high with the new games, and yes... i know the CPU istnt too good and its old but anyway i tryed recording Shadows Of Mordor on high/very high and during the gameplay i didn't have less than 30fps, Crysis2 ultra recorded and only had <30fps on big zones with a lot of explosions or a lot of graphical load.

So, i would use OBS, because it can bring you a good quality and the files have a low size. Hope i helped you 😀

hi thanks for replying but im having trouble recording if I get a recording its just a black screen or it doesn't record at all. also I don't know how to tell if im recording and where it saves all my videos. if you could help that would be great!

 

[yorel140]

The black screen its because you try to record a full screen game while you selected a "windowed game" (maybe)

There is a little guide https://oc.tc/forums/topics/531a511512ca956f8700a54d of how to record a game. In this example its minecraft but take care of which game you want to record and if its at full screen or not because it changes the way you record it or the configuration to do it...

Note that if you cant record at 60fps try doing it at 30 and render it to 60, i never really tried it but it could work hehe

 

[Dark Rain]

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) its a really good one. It makes the games playable while recording unlike fraps..
For example, my setup its:

CPU: FX 6100 (6cores)
GPU: ASUS Strix GTX960 2GB DDR5 OC
RAM: HyperX Fury 1600MHz

Its a setup for playing games at 1080p on medium high with the new games, and yes... i know the CPU istnt too good and its old but anyway i tryed recording Shadows Of Mordor on high/very high and during the gameplay i didn't have less than 30fps, Crysis2 ultra recorded and only had <30fps on big zones with a lot of explosions or a lot of graphical load.

So, i would use OBS, because it can bring you a good quality and the files have a low size. Hope i helped you 😀

Hi i would love to know how to stream or even record with obs cuz my recording runs at 6 7 fps even though in game im at over 60 fps, btw i have the same cpu + 4 gigs of ram

 

[yorel140]

Maybe the problem of this 6/7 fps its because you record at 60fps, you should do it at 30... i know its not as good as 60fps but atleast you will be able to record and get a decent video quality and good fps.

With the streaming thing im not able to help you, i never did it because i have a pretty bad connection so... try checking on this forum and maybe someone did a post about it or in other different forum, good luck with it 😀

 

[Dark Rain]

Maybe the problem of this 6/7 fps its because you record at 60fps, you should do it at 30... i know its not as good as 60fps but atleast you will be able to record and get a decent video quality and good fps.

With the streaming thing im not able to help you, i never did it because i have a pretty bad connection so... try checking on this forum and maybe someone did a post about it or in other different forum, good luck with it 😀

i've tried it with 30 but the problem is that when i click on the game tab the obs fps count drops from 30 to 7 and i don't know why.