raid recording software?

I'm old and a biologist, don't know jack about computers. What do the cool kids in wvw use to video tape their raids? Anything free worth downloading?

Thanks!!!

if you have nvidia card you can use shadowplay. otherwise use OBS.

I've mostly used OBS, it's free and not too hard to figure out. You might need to run the game in windowed full screen if you tab out of the game often though.

Thanks for the recommendations guys!

Yeah I recommend OBS for flexibility overall compared to shadowplay, but shadowplay is for those that don't want any hassle and have an nvidia gpu (the overlay can cause problems sometimes though).

i have a nvidia card that is literally 1 number away from the list of supported shadowplay cards. So I use obs, and its nice. Most things I can't record though.....OBS or just recording in general just don't work if you dont have the system specs.

Yeah, the other alternative if you don't have the processing power is to get an external recorder like elgato/avermedia/etc. You'll have to search for the one that suits your taste though, I have no idea about those.

thanks for the info again, I tried GEFORCE shadowplay and my computer nearly exploded unfortunately. It's more just to help my guild learn from fights overall. I'll give that OBS a shot

@RodOfDeath.5247 said:thanks for the info again, I tried GEFORCE shadowplay and my computer nearly exploded unfortunately. It's more just to help my guild learn from fights overall. I'll give that OBS a shotLolwat... I have budget 1060 3gb and it handle shadowplay decently, even with continous recording on a 2gb ramdisk. And its on an ancient i5. What kind if card do you have to cause near explosions?

@Dawdler.8521 said:

@RodOfDeath.5247 said:thanks for the info again, I tried GEFORCE shadowplay and my computer nearly exploded unfortunately. It's more just to help my guild learn from fights overall. I'll give that OBS a shotLolwat... I have budget 1060 3gb and it handle shadowplay decently, even with continous recording on a 2gb ramdisk. And its on an ancient i5. What kind if card do you have to cause near explosions?

Dude I don't know anything about computers lol Says i7 660M something something of the something something system.

I have gtx 960 and 6 years or something old i5 and shadow play works just fine.

@Junkpile.7439 said:I have gtx 960 and 6 years or something old i5 and shadow play works just fine.

Now I do have discord open during the game, is it just too many things going on at once?

Shadowplay doesn't use much processor power, it records direct from your GPU. You'll find performance worse with CPU driven recorders, and it may be a bad idea for your machine in general. If you really want to record for your guild, do some legwork and learn the basics about your machine.

@RodOfDeath.5247 said:

@Dawdler.8521 said:

@RodOfDeath.5247 said:thanks for the info again, I tried GEFORCE shadowplay and my computer nearly exploded unfortunately. It's more just to help my guild learn from fights overall. I'll give that OBS a shotLolwat... I have budget 1060 3gb and it handle shadowplay decently, even with continous recording on a 2gb ramdisk. And its on an ancient i5. What kind if card do you have to cause near explosions?

I use Game DVR that came built-in with Windows 10. (just disable the always-record feature. so it wont eat up your resource when not necessary)

I play GW2 on rMBP 2015. running normally 20-30 fps while not recording. And Game DVR not affect much of the game performance.

Laptops (especially this one old) have too weak CPU for real-time software encoding OBS-style. The only real shot for something that will not wreck your framerate is shadowplay. 660 supports that. Yes it will output big files with bad quality compared to its bitrate, but if you go to really high bitrates it becomes good enough to be usable.

@Dawdler.8521 said:

@RodOfDeath.5247 said:

@Dawdler.8521 said:

@RodOfDeath.5247 said:thanks for the info again, I tried GEFORCE shadowplay and my computer nearly exploded unfortunately. It's more just to help my guild learn from fights overall. I'll give that OBS a shotLolwat... I have budget 1060 3gb and it handle shadowplay decently, even with continous recording on a 2gb ramdisk. And its on an ancient i5. What kind if card do you have to cause near explosions?

Ok makes sense, thanks again for giving advice to a clueless computer player :)

don't continuously record. set the timer for 10minutes. and just record the last 10mins of fights u want to review. it will snapshot it like a screenshot. think the hotkey command is like alt-f10 or something

Sure it must record continuously for the whole raid, but then how to edit the massive video? Windows program.

Nothing is trivial, I have seen. So far I have only recorded digital TV in DVB format in GNU/Linux. The "best" program in GNU/Linux converted the original high quality DVB stream to very low quality DV format, garbage. Also, I converted the DVB to DVD using the best, but the disc almost broke my DVD player by wild stutter read, and video image shown was complete garbage.

@Pelto.9364 said:Sure it must record continuously for the whole raid, but then how to edit the massive video? Windows program.The latter part depend on how complicated you wanna get... Windows Movie Maker for example is free and good for really simple stuff (ie slap some music on, in/out effects and cutting video). I use it for my quick videos.

Regarding recording, the point of shadowplay is that you dont need continous recording in one huge go. You get a collection of files. You record back in time. Encounter an enemy guild, fight for 5 minutes and go "damn I forgot to record that! Oh wait...", hit record and get the last 5-10 minutes (time can be changed in settings). In postprod you just cut the time up until the action starts and stitch together multiple files.

As I mentioned, keep in mind that you want to run the temp location on a ramdisk or mechanical drive. Only need 2-4gb for a decent length at ok quality.

@Junkpile.7439 said:I have gtx 960 and 6 years or something old i5 and shadow play works just fine.

Are you streaming your chat anywhere?

@Hvaran.6327 said:

@Junkpile.7439 said:I have gtx 960 and 6 years or something old i5 and shadow play works just fine.

No, but maybe i should start.

@Junkpile.7439 said:I have gtx 960 and 6 years or something old i5 and shadow play works just fine.

There's much more than just a card that goes into the mix for being able to handle streaming...