video capture

[gremlin1812]

G'day, any suggestions for screen capture software preferably free or very inexpensive.
Regards
Barrie

[TorontoMainlineTrains]

If your using Windows10 check the Xbox in the start up there, is a hidden DVR that can record video from your games.

https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?326530-Windows-10-amp-Recording-quot-Game-quot-Videos&highlight=Xbox+video

[incrediibleuser]

https://obsproject.com/

Open Source
I use it personally and found to have better results.l

[gremlin1812]

G'day, I am running win7 but have downloaded the OBS software and will give it a go.
Regards and thanks.
Barrie

[ossie]

G'day Barrie,

I've messed around with ORTS and a few different video recording packages without finding anything that returns a super high quality video. I've used OBS, Fraps, Bandicam and Shadowplay so far. The first 3 are free or have free demos while Shadowplay comes with (some??) Nvidia video cards. I've settled on Shadowplay, but as I say, there's not much difference between the four as far as I could tell. Attached are a couple of videos I made while I was comparing and (hopefully) you can see that Shadowplay came out slightly ahead (keep in mind that once uploaded to Flickr there's probably around a 20% quality hit compared to what I see on my HDD, especially with the blurring effect) but there was also a big difference in file sizes too. The Shadowplay version was around 800mb while the Bandicam test was about 440mb. After playing around with the Bandicam settings I was able to get a similar quality to what I achieved with Shadowplay.

Shadowplay:

Desktop 12.30.2016 - 00.38.12.04 by ORTS Screenshots, on Flickr

Bandicam:

RunActivityLAA 2016-12-30 00-15-29-302 by ORTS Screenshots, on Flickr

Others might disagree and depending on your PC better results might be achieved, but as far my testing went, I just think the choice of recording software comes down to personal preference rather than one being a mile in front of the others as far as playback quality goes.

[gremlin1812]

G'day Pete, Back in the days of MSTS I used to use fraps but you had to use another piece of software to compress the files down as they were enormous. I will just suck it and see, thanks for the info and videos.
Regards
Barrie

[ossie]

No worries!

[gremlin1812]

G'day Pete, I got Bandicam up and running it has a bit of stutter but it is probably because of my PC which is a bit low end. It will do for now and hopefully I will get the other PC up and running soon and it should handle it much better.
Regards
Barrie

[ossie]

G'day Barrie,

Yeah, I had that same issue with my Win7 machine too. It's still not perfect on this one, but better than nothing. Good luck!