Recommended Video Capture Software?

[Kittra]

@Vactus
Is this going to make changes to my laptops settings? It seems like it's one of those third party graphics accelerators, if I got my terms right, that auto change your computers settings.

I can answer that.

MSI Afterburner is primarily a GPU overclocking and fan controller program with the added bonus of having a utility to record video.

It does not change your settings automatically, but instead will just allow you to see your system operating temperatures/voltages.

Since you don't have discrete GPU, it shouldn't have any settings you can change that would harm your PC.


As for your Laptop specs; I wouldn't expect that particular CPU to be all that adequate when it comes to recording videos in full HD, especially if you have the power saving options enabled (they are enabled on all laptops by default).

FRAPs allows you to record at half resolution, which can take a ton of stress off of your machine, but then it is half your screen size. An example would be the half screen size of 1920x1080 = 960x540 which falls in the realm of a 480p video on YouTube.

Open Broadcaster Software allows greater flexibility and you can set the screen recording size to whatever you want. Example: Screen size is 1920x1080, but you can set the recorded video resolution to 1280x720, 852x480 or any custom size you like. This gives you the freedom to find your Laptop's "Optimal" recording settings through experimentation.

On another note, DxTory also has a custom resize feature.