Whats a good video recorder for gameplay?

[beachbum111111]

I want to upload video's to youtube but all the software I've used so far has not worked properly. Can you suggest me a software that doesn't suck the roosters? These are the ones I've used so far:

MSI Afterburner
Works fine but the file size is loving terrible (20 seconds at 1.5 GB) and the file size remains massive even if I turn down the settings to half frame.

Open Broadcast Software

Quality looks like stuff no matter what settings I have it at (I even replicated the settings that the YouTubers use) and the recording always has random stuttering when I play it back while in game that never happens, it also reduces framerate by 10 FPS (I have a Radeon HD 7950 and an i5 and it does this with Halo Online).

DXTory

Tried this a while ago, couldn't even get it working, just a black screen. This was over a year ago however so maybe it's different now

Bandicam

Audio desyncs

Fraps

Haven't used it in ages. Remember it not being great but might try it again.

Does anyone know of any decent game recording software? I want to be able to record videos at 1080p with decent quality but at the same time not a file size that melts my hard drive.

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[Refticus]

fraps is the best option if you're willing to set fire to your money

[Mr Queeba]

I use OBS and it's fine. Don't know why you are having issues with it.

[TheBrickBuilder]

I was gonna say OBS but appears you didn't like it I currently use OBS and it works fine for me and the quality on my TF2 vids aren't awful/bad but it's not super high quality

[Legoboss]

shadowplay

[espio100]

shadowplay

[Slab Bulkhead]

My only recommendation is OBS. It's so perfect. Make sure you have your max bitrate turned up if you want decent quality vids, 2000 is what i use.

[ZSNO]

My only recommendation is OBS. It's so perfect. Make sure you have your max bitrate turned up if you want decent quality vids, 2000 is what i use.

2000 kbps is actually a really low bitrate to record at unless your screen is rather small.
For 1080p, about 6000 kbps should give you a rather good quality video.

[Jubel]

2000 kbps is actually a really low bitrate to record at unless your screen is rather small.
For 1080p, about 6000 kbps should give you a rather good quality video.

Really?

Even when I crank it well up to 8000, it's still extremely fuzzy.

[ZSNO]

Really?

Even when I crank it well up to 8000, it's still extremely fuzzy.

There are a lot more recording settings than just bitrate. You might have the compression set really high or something.

[Trogtor]

i hate using OBS because it always gives me that CPU over usage error and starts stuttering like crazy

[espio100]

i hate using OBS because it always gives me that CPU over usage error and starts stuttering like crazy

Get a better cpu?

[Planr]

Open Broadcast Software
Quality looks like stuff no matter what settings I have it at (I even replicated the settings that the YouTubers use) and the recording always has random stuttering when I play it back while in game that never happens, it also reduces framerate by 10 FPS (I have a Radeon HD 7950 and an i5 and it does this with Halo Online).

You're lucky you even got OBS to run for you. I have a top-notch gaming laptop and OBS still won't freaking work no matter what I try.

Lol forget that. I finally got OBS to work okay-ish with both video and audio, but the video footage appears too glowy and the audio is too sharp/loud. Anyone know how to fix this?

I personally am wondering about this too, because I'd like to start doing some gaming series for my youtube channel myself.

Fraps is the only thing that's ever worked for me but the problem is that the filesizes for the footage that Fraps records is absurd, similar to how you described MSI Afterburner being. I recorded video for 30 minutes a few months back and the resulting filesize was over 100 GB. It's just very disappointing.

[espio100]

I suggest to record your video on another disk than what disk your game is running on

[Trogtor]

Get a better cpu?

okay, you wanna cough up some money so i can afford one?