best recording software without loosing fps

i don't know if this has been posted before, i search'd for it but couldn't find it. Which is the best recording software without loosing fps?? i have been using fraps but i loose a good 30fps when recording.

 

There's pretty much no way to record a game without losing fps. It's the nature of the beast... to record, it basically copies everything your game is doing and then writes it to a disk as well as passing it along to actually be displayed. That's a non-trivial task.

You might be able to buy something to record VGA signals if you play on an external monitor, but short of that, the only things you can really do are record to a drive that the game isn't on (external if need be) and turn the settings of the game down.

 

To clarify, do you mean losing real-time FPS while in-game, or losing frames in the recording?

I haven't used recording software in a while, but I'd imagine they ought to have an option so that in-game FPS isn't impacted. Writing every frame to storage might slow down the frames, but there should be a way to tell it to reduce the amount of frames it writes so that it doesn't impact real-time performance.

 

The reason it hits your frame rate is because the images have to be compressed. If you tried to copy raw video footage at 1080p to a hard drive then you would get nowhere in most cases. Therefore compression is needed, which takes CPU power to get done. It's a trade off between image quality and FPS.

 

There are 2 easy steps.
1. Record to a separate hard drive.
2. Record first. Compress later.

Optional: record at lower quality. but first 2 should do.

 

Either you use FRAPS and lose a few FPS or use an high-end camcorder.
But I'd imagine you won't like the result for the latter.

I do #1 from above, so far so good.

 

I'm using MSI Afterburner: half size, uncompressed @ 60fps and once i finish to record i encode the video with Handbrake