PC Game Recording Software. (youtube)

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chrisespi68

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I am looking record my gameplay for youtube, (yes, I want to be a youtube gamer). No, but seriously, I am looking forward to Far Cry 5 coming out next week and I am interested in recording my game play, 1.5 to 2 hour game play, semi-daily, time permitted.

I am looking for software that will capture, both video and audio. I am not looking to capture any external camera, such as my notebook camera, but just the actual game play and my comments during the game.

Free would be great, if it offers what I need, paid is okay too, as longs as it is not a million dollars or more, if you know what I mean.

Thanks for looking. Comments/Recommendations appreciated.
 
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Frag Maniac

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If you prefer free, I recommend just using ShadowPlay if you have a Nvidia GPU, or ReLive if you have an AMD GPU.

Of course ShadowpLay has been around longer, so probably still less buggy, but the latest AMD drivers have ReLive finally working acceptably for me. However you DO have to set Separate Microphone Track to enabled to avoid audio distortion. Note I have been told when you do this, it distorts mic audio. So it seems it's only working well without mic audio recorded. Note this was with 18.3.2 though, I've not yet tested 18.3.3.

ReLive used to have issues with the Instant Replay hotkeys not saving the video file as well, but now it works fine. It also used to at times record a micro size unplayable file, but so far I've not seen it do that. I've not spent enough time testing it to know though. They are clearly making improvements on it now though, especially since they started naming their drivers Adrenalin, vs Crimson. Crimson was plagued with problems, though ReLive debuted on Crimson. Even ShadowPlay had a lot of problems at launch.

The pluses of ShadowPlay and ReLive are they work straight from your GPUs built in H.264 video encoding architecture (which any GPU made in the last 5-6 yrs has), so they are MUCH faster and more efficient. That means way smaller file sizes and much better game performance. In fact they will both record up to 20 min worth of gameplay without even having it record in the background. This is because they hold up to 20 min worth of video in cache, which can be saved to file at the touch of a button if you decide the last 20 min of gameplay was worth saving to video.

If you want to record longer than 20 min sessions, you just set it to record in the background. However if time, drive space, and game performance are key factors for you, I highly recommend stitching 20 min segments together using cached recording. Running a recorder constantly in the background can result in lots of drive space used, lots of trial and error recording resulting in lots of time deleting non used files, and lots of stress.

 
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