Recommended Video Capture Software?

[lxSch]

RTV1 and MJpeg downscaled to 480p may work well too (medium file size with much lesser cpu usage - if it ever will be the case). Both are supported by msi afterburner, but cannot tell about OBS.

[Lexia]

Want something that is free that can capture and stream? Use Open Broadcast Software (OBS)

[bonedeaf]

Use ShadowPlay! It's amazing.

This!!!!
Easiest way to stream or record manually anything in the game at perfect quality.
There is a downside however, you must play the game in fullscreen and you need a 670 card to use it.

[Shirana]

Great!

This is how it looks now :3
It's really good now imo, since I never expected awesome quality anyways xD
And it seems to have little impact on my games performance though the real test will be CT when I try it tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjjL9ZnLBMw
ANd yes set the quality settings to 480 in the youtube player. 360 is what it looked like even on 480 before messing with buffering.

I don't recommend you set the Buffer Size to 0, because that basicly tells the program "You know what, lets toss caution to the wind and drive this Sports Car at 200mph (321kph) and have the time of our lives... or spin out of control and fly off a cliff!" if you get my meaning. >_>

And this made me Lol 8D

[Mrfox0707]

I use open boardcast it gets you pretty good video once you get the settings right.

[Shirana]

Heh, so since I haven't been on my youtube account for 10 months (almost a year like I thought) I found out what my old video recorder was. And though it easily captures even better picture (it's Bandicam) I just don't want to use it. Because of huge file sizes. Even has the same almost unnoticeable change of performance in the game or computer. HOWEVER...I can deal with the massive file sizes but I HATE that water mark and the 10 min limited videos. I want something I can run and leave...not, say, finish a dungeon and forget 30-40 mins ago to hit record again because the 10min period passed. Or remember then die to an aoe because of that. it's far too risky to use imo. Well maybe I can deal with the file size. 75mb in a 24 second moment is kind of ridiculous lol. So I'll just be using OBS from now on~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV3u...ature=youtu.be
Bandicam test video.
Anyways enough video spamming for the night. I'll do some research based on some things people have mentioned since I didn't really know what to say back to some others but for now I am very happy with OBS :3

Edit: I hate the 10-20 hour upload times to youtube too just for 10min videos lol

[Tashigi]

@reality_check I just googled that since I never heard of it and I don't even have an NVIDIA card, let alone a GeForce which I get the feeling is prolly a really expensive graphics card lol

Any of the 650+ models and higher (They're not that expensive).
As someone who has used Fraps mainly, with OBS/Dxtory and a few others, I really have no choice but to recommend Shadowplay, even if you end up having to buy a new GPU.
You could even enable the function via OBS, stream to Twitch and then upload whatever you streamed to Youtube.

It's made my life a heck of a lot easier.

But if you really can't go that route, go with Dxtory or Fraps.
OBS for streaming.

[juniglee]

I think ShadowPlay has a 10 minutes limit on recording? I tried it out once, seemed to be the case.

[Evaddaragon]

Shadowplay has a limit of 20 minutes if using "Shadow" mode, but it's "limited" by your HDD space if you use the "manual" mode.

It shows great results, without compromising your gameplay, however :

1- You need AT LEAST GeForce GTX 6xx card
2- You MUST play in fullscreen

But if you fulfill those requirement, it's free, powerful, easy to use, and convenient. I really like it.

[Derceto]

What would you recommend?

I typically use something called Mirillis Action!. Not sure if you are looking for free options, or commercial. However, so far anyways, I've found this one to be the best. Recording at various resolutions, it tends to take rather low overhead on the cpu. It also has default options for various resolution adjustments of 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, and 1080p. In any case, there is a free trial of it if you may want to try it out and see how it treats your laptop. Hope ya find something that will work for ya all the same. GL!