Try Dxtory or Mirilis Action recorder. You can find guides on youtube for setting them up for the first time, which is quite straight foward.
Best screen recorder for games?
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Quite recently shifted out the WD caviar black with a seagate baracuda to fraps on since baracuda has twice the read and write speed than WD,
Nope, i got an dedicated hdd for such.Originally Posted by Mailman377
With fraps, are you recording to the same HDD that you're playing your games off of? If so thats the reason why it stutters.
Quite recently shifted out the WD caviar black with a seagate baracuda to fraps on since baracuda has twice the read and write speed than WD,
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That's strange cause I can record 1080p60 off to my green drive with no hiccups and its the slowest of all my drives.
Using the latest version of Fraps?Originally Posted by sonarctica
Nope, i got an dedicated hdd for such.
Quite recently shifted out the WD caviar black with a seagate baracuda to fraps on since baracuda has twice the read and write speed than WD,
That's strange cause I can record 1080p60 off to my green drive with no hiccups and its the slowest of all my drives.
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The game i was trying to record was The buerau.
Yeah, im using version 3.5.99 build 15618Originally Posted by Mailman377
Using the latest version of Fraps?
That's strange cause I can record 1080p60 off to my green drive with no hiccups and its the slowest of all my drives.
The game i was trying to record was The buerau.
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However, most recorders use compression. Some have the ability to disable this, but they are rarely faster this way, even if your disks have the necessary write speed.
FRAPS has no option to remove compression, but it does have the best lossless compression I've yet seen in video recording software (typically a bit better than 50%).
Most other screen capture programs use MJPEG or h.264. MJPEG recorders are generally fairly light on CPU, give good compression, and have decent quality. h.264 has better compression for the same quality, but more CPU load. FRAPS' FPS1 has high CPU load and less compression, but extremely high quality.
The newest beta of MSI AB is going to be the best option for many people here as it has Quicksync support.
The easiest way to calculate the minimum sustained write bandwidth you need for raw video is: horizontal res * vertical res * color depth (almost always 32-bits) * frame rateOriginally Posted by fragamemnon
1080p @ 60FPS will require some decent write speeds, assuming you capture raw images to avoid the performance hit on the CPU while it compresses frames.
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1280x720p @ 120FPS would require about 110MB/s consecutive write speed (assuming 900KB for a raw 720p frame).
However, you want half of the 120 frame rate at 2.25 times the resolution - (1920*1080)/(1280*720) - so that would equal in 120/2*0.9*2.125= ~115MB/sec write.
I believe that a very light compression would be needed in order to achieve some balance. But I am not enlightened in this subject - hopefully somebody else will chime in with more appropriate for you settings.
However, most recorders use compression. Some have the ability to disable this, but they are rarely faster this way, even if your disks have the necessary write speed.
FRAPS has no option to remove compression, but it does have the best lossless compression I've yet seen in video recording software (typically a bit better than 50%).
Most other screen capture programs use MJPEG or h.264. MJPEG recorders are generally fairly light on CPU, give good compression, and have decent quality. h.264 has better compression for the same quality, but more CPU load. FRAPS' FPS1 has high CPU load and less compression, but extremely high quality.
The newest beta of MSI AB is going to be the best option for many people here as it has Quicksync support.
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Max writes ive seen for 1080p60 on my end was the 70-95 MB/s area and thats with Fraps.Originally Posted by fragamemnon
1080p @ 60FPS will require some decent write speeds, assuming you capture raw images to avoid the performance hit on the CPU while it compresses frames.
From this topic:
1280x720p @ 120FPS would require about 110MB/s consecutive write speed (assuming 900KB for a raw 720p frame).
However, you want half of the 120 frame rate at 2.25 times the resolution - (1920*1080)/(1280*720) - so that would equal in 120/2*0.9*2.125= ~115MB/sec write.
I believe that a very light compression would be needed in order to achieve some balance. But I am not enlightened in this subject - hopefully somebody else will chime in with more appropriate for you settings.
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Even budget storage drives have more than enough sequential performance to handle almost any FRAPS settings if 2-4 of them are used.
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I have seen over 180MB/s from 1200p @ 30 fps with some content that had complex textures, lots of AF, and lossless RGB recording with FRAPS.
Doesn't even need to be especially fast drives, depending on how many you have.Originally Posted by Aparition
Or you could do what I do and just record to WD Blacks in Raid0.
Even budget storage drives have more than enough sequential performance to handle almost any FRAPS settings if 2-4 of them are used.
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This will vary considerably based on the actual content being recorded; the more detail, the less it gets compressed.Originally Posted by Mailman377
Max writes ive seen for 1080p60 on my end was the 70-95 MB/s area and thats with Fraps.
I have seen over 180MB/s from 1200p @ 30 fps with some content that had complex textures, lots of AF, and lossless RGB recording with FRAPS.
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