Fraps

[pillar]

I know its been a while, but ive heard that Fraps helps to record video while your playing games. My question is, if I decide to record my voice in order to post videos online, will it record my voice as well? If not, what other program can help me accomplish this feature?

 

[Snipeye]

Give OBS a try. I have fraps; not a fan of it. I know OBS definitely will capture voice with it, and it's used by Youtubers as well.

 

[Samurai_TwoSeven]

I personally use Shadowplay, but OBS is pretty good, or if you want take a slightly more expensive approach buy a dedicated capture card (I have the El Gato HD60 Pro)

 

[Cloakedsphere]

Fraps is honestly a bad choice these days when free programs linger on the market that offer more features and less stressful on the PC.

 

[sweg]

when recording with fraps, its good but the files are HUUUGE. Right now I use OBS and its the best.

 

[Simon]

OBS is the way to go. Fraps is sort of stuck in the stone ages still.

 

[motive]

I would never use a capture device on my pc while I play, for one could lag, could look choppy in my experience a long time ago fraps is just wrong. use a capture card if you can. Good luck

 

[Simon]

I would never use a capture device on my pc while I play, for one could lag, could look choppy in my experience a long time ago fraps is just wrong. use a capture card if you can. Good luck

It's not as bad as it used to be, I can play skyrim on extreme and still record with no lag.

 

[1010101Binary]

The issue with FRAPS is that it will place a huge burden on your PC while recording. Using a video-integrated application like ShadowPlay is the only way to go, there is virtually no additional workload on your PC other than to write the files which are already returned from your video card in compressed format. The only problem I found is that ShadowPlay only works in fullscreen mode and I prefer to play in borderless so I can jump into other programs and check my e-mail while i'm in-game.

 

[Dr. Doctor (inactive)]

OBS, Dxtory, and Shadowplay. Never stray from these three.

 

[Johnny]

FRAPS will record your voice. You can even hotkey it to record only when you push the button like on Teamspeak.

FRAPS does not live encode so yes it requires a lot of resources. A very large, very fast hard drive is required that is used only for video storage. It is a bad idea to record gameplay footage on the same hard drive that the game is on, and definitely a bad idea to record on your C drive. You also need a powerhouse of a CPU to record certain games. This means that FRAPS will give you the best quality.

Nvidia Shadowplay and AMD Raptr Gvr use your graphics card to encode the footage. This will result in a smaller file size and is much less of a resource hog. Obviously the quality will be hit as a result.

OpenBroadcaster is a very handy piece of software and I can see why a lot of YouTubers use it. It also has lossless video capture(performance wise this will still be the same as FRAPS) but OBS has the added bonus of doing A LOT in one place. Recording video and streaming online with a click of a couple of buttons. The downside is there's a lot of options to set and could overwhelm someone new to recording video. You will need to invest time into this if you plan on using it..

 

[pillar]

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I will definitely look into OBS. Ok so I just looked over my videos. I definitely see why the most recent video took so freakin long. So the first video went up nice & fine, but I found out its only 43mb (I edited the video file in videopad & somehow managed to reduce the size of the video file by more than 90% of its size.) The other video ended up being over 2.5gb (thats straight from Fraps, so definitely learned a big lesson there).

 

[Snipeye]

Ouch. I learned the same lesson using fraps the first time. What I did was compartmentalized it using Windows Movie Maker, which saved more than half of the space, but still.....

 

[Johnny]

The only reason I record with FRAPS is because I use a video editor afterwards to put intro/music/commentary/etc on my videos. If you encode the video too much you run into potential color banding which looks like crap. If you don't plan on editing the footage after recording then do a google search and download a free video compressor to combat the large file sizes.

 

[Icydud]

I use fraps, I also use a video editor aswell.

Johnny nailed the pros and cons and everything he said I'm backing up.

Fraps is extremely user friendly, giving you a variety of things you can do, while being easy to use.

 

[truffleshuffle]

I use OBS right now tried fraps but huge files and I have to use vlc player to play it windows won't play the video Also I use vegas pro 13 for editing and the video messes up on occasion and does not look right. I would love to use shadow play as I have that but It won't record for me. I never tried it when I had the nvidia gtx 640 because it really was not good for gaming. Now that I upgraded to the 950 though and game I can't get it to record. It may be that my new graphics card is the Msi geforce gtx 950 it just won't work because its MSI. I am looking for good recording device but even OBS has issues and with lagging video and ripping on occasion. Not sure what is lagging the video on occasion because when I am gaming the game runs fine with no lagging or stuttering but the video does.

 

[Simon]

I use OBS right now tried fraps but huge files and I have to use vlc player to play it windows won't play the video Also I use vegas pro 13 for editing and the video messes up on occasion and does not look right. I would love to use shadow play as I have that but It won't record for me. I never tried it when I had the nvidia gtx 640 because it really was not good for gaming. Now that I upgraded to the 950 though and game I can't get it to record. It may be that my new graphics card is the Msi geforce gtx 950 it just won't work because its MSI. I am looking for good recording device but even OBS has issues and with lagging video and ripping on occasion. Not sure what is lagging the video on occasion because when I am gaming the game runs fine with no lagging or stuttering but the video does.

What are your computers specs? Processor and hard drive speeds are generally the biggest issue in video recording.

Also Windows Media Player has a very limited capacity for what it will play. VLC player is the best media player you will find, especially for compatibility.

 

[truffleshuffle]

What are your computers specs? Processor and hard drive speeds are generally the biggest issue in video recording.

Also Windows Media Player has a very limited capacity for what it will play. VLC player is the best media player you will find, especially for compatibility.

Well windows media plays everything but fraps that I use to record.

My specs are
Graphics card
MSI geforce gtx 950 gaming
Intel core i5-4460
cpu 3.20Hz
8.00GB
windows 10 home.
I also have two hard drives as well.

 

[Simon]

Well windows media plays everything but fraps that I use to record.

My specs are
Graphics card
MSI geforce gtx 950 gaming
Intel core i5-4460
cpu 3.20Hz
8.00GB
windows 10 home.
I also have two hard drives as well.

What rotational speed are your drives?

 

[truffleshuffle]

What rotational speed are your drives?

That I have no idea on. I have never changed anything all is factory settings as far as I know