Mp4, and also of course i wanna clip scenes out, so make my own montage video. I cant record dayz with it, it crashes the game bandicam works fine for dayz btw. Nov 28, 2012 game recording fraps vs bandicam vs msi afterburner vs dxtory vs playclaw discussion in tech chat started by net, nov 28, 2012. I personally prefer fraps over all of these recording software. You know you can set up dxtory to record with every codec, resolution and framerate you want. Which can add up to a few gigs per a few mins of footage. Pc gamers who like to record their ingame fps use fraps or. Dxtory vs fraps vs obs which one is the best game screen.
However, unfortunately fraps has not been updated since. Game recording fraps vs bandicam vs msi afterburner vs. Game recording fraps vs bandicam vs msi afterburner vs dxtory. Msi afterburner comes packaged with rivatuner statistics, which is probably what you saw in the video you were watching. Fps is frames per second that appears in the display while playing any game or video. This happens in shadowplay, dxtory, plays tv and afterburner. So far ive tested fraps, bandicam, msi afterburner 2. Steam also has a builtin fps counter if thats all you want. Game capture software action vs obs vs dxtory vs fraps vs. Now this doesnt mean that dxtory, fraps, or other game recorders arent worth it. Bandicam is featured in our earlier game recording software guides. Afterburner had 100ms pooling now, and got the fraps results from the fraps bench viewer. In another word, you can view dxtory vs fraps vs obs directly.
If there are a large number of fps then your game or video will run very smooth but lower fps will cause your game to lag and stutter. Msi works more often than fraps, but takes sometimes empty screenshots of. I never realised till tonight that afterburner does game video capture. To offer you a direct result, the section collects main features into a table. Dxtory vs fraps fps, quality and size test youtube. Shadowplay and fraps are outclassed in every way by another software. Hey all, well as everyone who uses fraps, they know it records raw video. A strange word to most, but a fairly common bit of free software, known to most of us here at gd. The dxtory codec makes even smaller files with still very good quality, dont know what that movies from shadowplay look like, what codec it uses etc. So, in this post, we present you with 5 best fps counter software for windows. First you would have to go for the paid version of fraps to release that 30 second recording limit to even start to compete with obs.
Stutters in shadowplay, dxtory, plays tv, afterburner, but. Benchmarking software show how many frames per second fps you are getting in a corner of your screen. With afterburner you can easily record gameplay in 1080p resolution at 60 fps. Fraps barely has an impact in framerrate if you just take screenshots or. Best recorder for high end computer if your computer can handle itbut if your pc can handle fraps and dxtory i prefer fraps because is the safe option that all recorder and dxtory the 2nd safe option because lot of youtuber use fraps and dxtory and fraps is very friendly to minecraft maybe. You need to stitch the file together afterwards using a builtin program. I thought fraps was great for world of warcraft back in the day. Additionally, when saving screenshots, it can only do so in bmp format. Fraps puts out much larger file sizes because it was not really meant to be used as game capture softwareit was originally made as benchmarking software. With afterburner, i increased the framerate to 40fps at half frames and reduced quality to 60% from default 85%. Afterburners ui is terrible, but you dont really have to look at the user interface after youve configured it once. So i need to edit it, to get it into a popular format such as. The numbers recorded from afterburner dont add up as i thought they would, so i wanted to share them with you, to theorize what.
I record with dxtory in 1080p with 30fps using the lagarith lossless codec and my recordings are around 3540gb for 30minutes. Afterburner is free and versatile, offering uncompressed fullframe video recording as well as a selection of codecs. Fraps is a screen recording software and benchmarking tool which can count fps frame per second. Dxtory and msi afterburner were the fraps killers, long ago. I have checked the output videos in both wmp and vlc player, and the problem is in the captured files apparently. Dxtory vs fraps comparison of advantages and disadvantages. Fraps is definitely outdated, and doesnt work with the original max payne games for example.
Since it is installed from windows 8, there is no need to install. When choosing your recording tool, it is important to consider aspects such as speed, quality, price, and storage space. From above descriptions, you may still feel confused about dxtory, fraps and obs. Msi works more often than fraps, but takes sometimes empty screenshots of my vpn app. Among the many, the two most popular and widely used are exkode dxtory and fraps recording software. Nvidia shadowplay vs fraps vs dxtory in bf4 battlefield 1. Dxtory offers extremely good customization and features like builtin multitrack audio recording. Jun 20, 2011 where fraps has been a huge disappointment such as with messing with losslessuncompressed recording, afterburner has thus far been flawless the remedy is to lower the resolution or framerate but even then fraps doesnt even offer much options there half or full res based on the 3d res. Comparison of video capture programs in ns2 unknown worlds. Fraps is a universal windows application that can be used with games using directx or opengl graphic technology. Irrespective of the reasons, a lowend pc or laptop is bound to have a. Well if you looked at the chart above it is pretty easy to decide which game capture software offers more. Weve collected all the information about both of these realtime screen capturing tools in order to provide you with all the information youll need if you are thinking of getting one of these programs.
Become a twitch or youtube gaming sensation with every evatech. However there is only fraps for windows and it is a pity there is no fraps for mac for macbook or imac users how to use fraps. If you choose use windows input the default windows recording input will be used. I havent tried it myself but ive heard good things about using dxtory instead of fraps. In this video, i talk about fraps, dxtory, and msi afterburner, along with a little. It would be awesome if you typed down in the comments what you think.
Fraps show fps, record video game movies, screen capture. Sep 22, 2015 fraps is definitely outdated, and doesnt work with the original max payne games for example. But if you would liek to record sound also use fraps, but also note that with any recording software use a secondary harddrive to record onto and not your primary. Msi afterburner is more of a monitoring software and used for overclocking and stuff so, it is the most complicated out of all these programs. Thanks to geforces shadowplay software, freely available from the nvidia website you can record or stream. What are the limitations of the free version of fraps. About 4 months ago i tried fraps, playclaw, wegame and dxtory, and came to the conclusion that dxtory was the best.
But it took up a lot of hard drive space when hard drive space was a lot more expensive. Home forums software topics general software game capture software action vs obs vs dxtory vs fraps vs amd raptr. Apparently dxtory doesnt stifle framerate as much but uses more disk space for files, preconverting to a standard format. Home forums software topics general software game capture software action vs obs vs dxtory vs fraps vs amd raptr discussion in general software started by shippuuden, oct 11, 2015. It allows you to keep track of stuff like gpu temperature and usage, fps, vram usage, etc. Playing a 30 or less fps can be a deathsentence for competitive. Fraps puts out much larger file sizes because it was not really meant to be used as game capture software it was originally made as benchmarking software. Aug 30, 2012 in this video, i talk about fraps, dxtory, and msi afterburner, along with a little video comparison between all three of them. I record my videos in 1080p, 1152p, or 1440p the last two are just downsampling and i get no noticeable frame rate loss with dxtory, and video file sizes are very small. I record my videos in 1080p, 1152p, or 1440p the last two are just downsampling and i get no noticeable.
Fraps is meant to record nearly lossless, so it is expected to produce big files. Does any have a fraps account full version i can use. Yes, best than fraps, and dxtory fraps is a big sh. Fraps is outclassed in every way by dxtory and obs. Sep 27, 20 dxtory vs action vs fraps vs bandicam side by side quality file size and performance duration. It is commonly used to determine a computers performance with a game, as well as record gaming footage. Luckily, there is a wide range of free software available for download that gets the job done. Part of the reason for this is that dxtory allows you to record across multiple hdds using its own codec. In fraps, its difficult to play while its recording since it drops the framerate drastically. Fraps vs gamecam this topic is locked from further discussion. The reason for this is that raw format of recordin.
Apr 22, 2015 now this doesnt mean that dxtory, fraps, or other game recorders arent worth it. In this video, i talk about fraps, dxtory, and msi afterburner, along with a little video comparison between all three of them. Perhaps you are more concerned with the best quality and not concerned with hard drive space, then fraps may be more for you if your system can handle it. When you select detect best sound input fraps will determine the best input to record the game sound on. But i noticed this morning while switching from dx11 to dx12 in battlefield 1 that fraps actually does work in dx12. The windows input may not capture all of the game sounds, so you should generally let fraps detect the input unless you want to capture sound from an. In its current form fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as. We believe that fraps was the best game recorder for over 10 years. Some people experience a bit of lag with bandicam although i never have personally but it should be mentioned. Dxtory vs fraps vs obs which one is your best choice.
There are probably a lot of games where fraps is still good, and to this day i still use it as a framerate monitor and screenshoting program. Ocat recorder every frame in the run, that was 30382 frames, afterburner. Its recorded videos are of high quality and adjustable fps. Fraps alternative better than fraps fraps is a benchmarking, screen capture, and realtime video capture utility for directx and opengl applications. Shadowplay is outclassed in every way by obs, which also supports nvenc, and has cfr and multiple audio tracks are coming already available in the multiplat version, but thats not nvenc. Need a program thats better than fraps anandtech forums. Apr 11, 2018 5 best fps counter software for windows. How can i record gameplay without a dip in framerate. Aug 03, 2016 this happens in shadowplay, dxtory, plays tv and afterburner. Game recording fraps vs bandicam vs msi afterburner vs dxtory vs playclaw. Afterburner s quality setting was at 85 percent, using mjpg compression, and frame size was set to full frame. In order to make this benchmark as accurate as possible we first measured fps without any recording software and than recorded fps while the different software solutions were doing their thing. You can also try the msi afterburner recording tool, its very basic though.
Fraps record fps counter if you are recording a movie. Fraps news shadowplay to take on fraps game video recording. While fraps is best known as a frameratecounting utility, its also a pretty handy gameplay recorder. Forget fraps, msi afterburner just got even better. In its current form, it performs many tasks, including benchmarking screen. Afterburner only offers framerate recording rates from 10100 in increments of 5, whereas fraps offers a specific frame rate setting including the ability to capture at odd rates like 29. Dxtory vs action vs fraps vs bandicam side by side quality file size and performance duration. Fraps show fps, record video game movies, screen capture software. A lot of gaming enthusiasts have asked the same question. Where fraps has been a huge disappointment such as with messing with losslessuncompressed recording, afterburner has thus far been flawless the remedy is to lower the resolution or framerate but even then fraps doesnt even offer much options there half or full res based on the 3d res.
I went and recorded a witcher 3 run of 10 minutes, with three framerate recorders at once. You may have seen youtube videos of games with at the top in white text, which are thirty seconds long or less this is why. Its better than fraps, more options for changing framerate. When i was inspecting the recorded results, i was amazed how bad the results averaged. Game capture software action vs obs vs dxtory vs fraps. Fraps uses less system resources so you keep a better framerate, with the youtube encoder quality gets destroyed anyway, the difference between fraps and any other recording tool is small if you are uploading to youtube. Fraps has no quality setting other than its default, or lossless. If you want the best software to just record and no sound that would be msi afterburner. Over the last couple days ive been trying out a bunch of different screen recording software. However, there are some fantastic game recorders that get the job done. Discussion in general software started by shippuuden, oct 11, 2015. Ive experienced fraps, but it lowered my fps a lot and the video files were huge.
As far as performance and video quality bandicam vs fraps are pretty damn close. Bandicam vs dxtory vs fraps vs amd gaming evolve vs msi. Fraps produces flawless footage 60 fps at half size. Pc gamers who like to record their ingame fps use fraps or bandicam to save and submit. I try to keep everything as comparable as possible. I mainly use afterburner when i need to capture ultrahigh res screens. The free version of fraps has a thirty second recording limit, and embeds a watermark at the top of the recorded video. How do i record in 720p instead of 1080p with fraps. Bandicam vs fraps m forums battlelog battlefield 3. Msi afterburner is better than fraps overclockers uk forums. So if you have storage over performance id give it a go. Afterburner s ui is terrible, but you dont really have to look at the user interface after youve configured it once.
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