best recording/streaming software?

[alrenatomfur]

so as of late I have been trying to find a good software for streaming/recording my gameplay, mainly recording. I've tried some various ones, like bandicam, OBS and FRAPS, but none are very good to record the game, due to either the not-so-good quality to the skipping of frames to not picking up the game at all. any help or suggestions would be much apprecidated, thanks.

 

[Nauvran]

Shadowplay is rather nice but it requires you have a proper Nvidia card

 

[klawxx]

Doesn't steam have a feature for this?

 

[OfficialCoding]

so as of late I have been trying to find a good software for streaming/recording my gameplay, mainly recording. I've tried some various ones, like bandicam, OBS and FRAPS, but none are very good to record the game, due to either the not-so-good quality to the skipping of frames to not picking up the game at all. any help or suggestions would be much apprecidated, thanks.

I use OBS and my recordings are ok. I have Intel graphics so i have to turn framebuffer off and reduce the texture quality a bit, but as long as I stay a away from planets I'm good.

 

[Nauvran]

Doesn't steam have a feature for this?

doesnt it only stream to Steam?

 

[Sachys]

doesnt it only stream to Steam?

it will broadcast to steam only, but i believe it can record locally.

interestingly though, its the easiest way to stream privately as you can set the broadcast to friends only / approved people - which can be handy for artists / clients.

Edit: to the OP, theres also Caffiene (currently free on humble). Havent tried it but for the price of free is maybe worth a look?

 

[NeonSturm]

XSplit Gamecaster Features seems to be free and is also supported by discordapp.com which has it's own game-store now.
The other supported stream-app is OBS

Perhaps it's worth a try.

 

[alrenatomfur]

thanks to all of you guys, I'll look into these suggestions!

 

[jstenholt]

If you're willing to dive in and learn, OBS's advanced settings can really give you some quality recordings. Just make sure you're recording instead of streaming.