Question / Help OBS for recording?

[willll162904]

Hey guys so i have some questions about using the local recording option in OBS. Currently i use fraps or dxtory for recording. Fraps has been fairly good, but it really kills your performance ingame and makes for an annoying ingame experience. Dxtory has been alrite. I get a very in consistent ingame performance as it kinda jumps all over the place and because of that stuttering occurs which sucks. Also ive had major issues with my recordings from fraps and dxtory stuttering after render and even upload on my new rig. I have a Western Digital Caviar black 7200 rpm 1 tb 64 mb cache drive that i use solely for recording, and thats a pretty good hdd for recording too so i shouldnt be having these issues. Lately ive noticed alot of youtubers using Xsplit for recording and im kind of interested in using obs cuz xsplit sucks. How is it for recording? Hows the ingame performance and quality compared to fraps and dxtory and xsplit? Also is there a link to a thread about how to do local recording? like setting it up and what settings and such. im knowledgeable in the streaming aspect, but know nothing about local recording.. Thanks!

 

[Jack0r]

You are probably looking for this post:
http://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2972

To make a local recording instead of streaming with OBS you just select File Output in the OBS Broadcast Settings.
Here is a quickstart guide for OBS:
http://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=410

Now to compare OBS with Fraps and DXtory is a bit hard to do. OBS uses x264 and encodes the video file, so you will see some cpu usage because of this. Fraps and DXtory on the other hand use codecs that merely are uncompressed. So while Fraps/Dxtory will need more HDD bandwidth, OBS will use more CPU probably.
Because you are not limited in bitrate with a local recording, you could also change the preset to superfast/ultrafast in the advanced settings, to use less cpu with OBS while recording. But ultimately just give it a test and see the differences. OBS is free so you can just test all you want.

Greetings