Light-weight video programme for filming game

Magenpie

Magenpie
Hi there - this might be a weird/stupid question, so please bear with me.

With bug reporting, I've noticed that screenshots aren't always the most comprehensive way of describing the problem, and I'd like to film snippets of my game to show these things instead.

In my head, it would be a very light-weight easy-to-use thing, preferably where I can hit a hotkey and it will start / stop recording - a bit like hitting F12 in game or something?

However, I've never filmed any game I'm playing before and I have never used software like this. Am I living in a naive world of know-nothingness where this doesn't exist?

Advice gratefully received. :)
 

Jeyfrem

J
Hello!

Whenever I want to show someone something about a game I normally use the built in 'game' mode on Windows 10. It has a recording button. You can open the game bar by pressing the windows key + G (Win+G).

Still, you might not be running W10.

Depending on your graphics card, they also have their own recording option sometimes. I know my Nvidia card does.


Hope this helps. The built in Windows thing is quite useful!
 

Jaggid Edje

Jaggid Edje
If you have an NVidia GPU, I personally recommend that you just install GeForce Experience and use Shadowplay. It has a nice feature that you can record and save the last x minutes of what has already happened. In other words, you can record something after it has already happened, as long as the feature is turned on.
This is really useful if you want to capture video snippets of something gone wrong...seeing as you can't always predict those and all you have to do to save the video is hit the hotkey. Instantly the last x minutes are saved as a video to your hard drive. I have mine set to 15 minutes.

No performance cost to speak of either for this feature, unless you set the time it can go save backwards by a whole lot, I guess.

If you don't have an Nvidia GPU, and are on Windows 10, I agree with @Jeyfrem, the Windows Game Bar recording feature is easy to use and again, no real performance cost.
 
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Magenpie

Magenpie
Gosh!! Thank you so much everyone!! I'll explore all of these things.

I'm a smelly AMD Radeon person (don't hate me, I know it means I'm not a proper gamer ;) ) but I'll investigate the suite that comes with my card - I'd forgotten about them.

The in built Windows 10 thing sounds the place to start tho!

Again, thank you so much for all the advice - i thought I was asking something very silly! :)
 

Jaggid Edje

Jaggid Edje
Magenpie said:
Gosh!! Thank you so much everyone!! I'll explore all of these things.

I'm a smelly AMD Radeon person (don't hate me, I know it means I'm not a proper gamer ;) ) but I'll investigate the suite that comes with my card - I'd forgotten about them.

The in build Windows 10 thing sounds the place to start tho!

Again, thank you so much for all the advice - i thought I was asking something very silly! :)
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Hahaha.. It's almost 2020, AMD is not so bad for gaming compared to Nvidia as it was back in the day. I'm still a die-hard Nvidia fan, personally, but I will still acknowledge that AMD has really closed the gap. For some games, it actually ends up being a better choice.
 
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