Best capture software for recording games?

[TerryByte]

OBS is great. Although I found the learning curve was steep.
FRAPS is easy but DAMN it takes up heaps of space and it can cause some games to lag.
Bandicam is pretty sweet too.

 

[Josh100LuBu]

OBS is great because it is completely free, fraps has amazing quality but it has huge file sizes and limited options, not to mention it drops your FPS, personally Dxtory is the way to go, multiple audio inputs, hardly any fps hit and smallish file sizes with a lot of customisation

Thanks a lot.

 

[cidepix]

never heard of OBS before.. I don't do gaming videos (yet) but for my tutorials, I capture the screen with "Microsoft Expression Encoder 4" (Service Pack 2 version without time limits) which is also free..

OBS sounds interesting as so many of you recommend it.. I will have a look at that..

 

[Noelle]

I've always used Fraps. Worked great for me when I was recording games.

 

[Agis]

I can recommend Fraps and Bandicam, even if Bandicam has ****** up my sound recordings and fps amout a few times, still worth a try.

Never tried OBS for recording, but if it's doing as great as when streaming, i'm totally giving a huge "+"!