Can anyone recommend a capture card?

The VCR King

The VCR King

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After I get a new PSU put into my PC, I plan to get a decent capture card to record gaming videos. Right now I use Bandicam and it puts a lot of stress on my CPU when I record in-game with it, plus it only allows you to record ten minutes at a time. I'd prefer the card to be relatively cheap, and it doesn't have to record in HD, but I'd prefer no lower than 480p recording. What card would you guys recommend? :)
 
Agent Smith said:
Something from Sony? USB is an option. This is for console?
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No, not for console. This is to record from my PC. Lol right now I have my phone propped up in front of my screen and I use that to record the screen but the quality is horrible and I want a cheap but decent capture card to do it right.
 
Software is a better approach than a capture card as you're not capturing an external stream.

Even with a capture card your CPU will be doing the same amount of work or more to process/encode the capture stream.
 
Wow, just wow! You have been recording video on a smartphone or a capture card with a computer game?! LOL! It's why I asked if this was console. That would have made sense.

Yeah, use Fraps or something else. You need a software solution, not a hardware solution. But Fraps WILL produce very large files. So make sure your HDD is large and I would use Freemake to convert to MP4. This will all take time depending on how long your video is.
 
Geoff said:
Check out Nvidia ShadowPlay, much less resource intensive than software like FRAPS.
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Somebody mentioned this to me. I will have a look at it and see what it's like! :D

@The VCR King: REMINDER: you need a computer that works before you can record game footage to YouTube with it - i.e. you need to buy a power supply, not capture cards or software. ;)
 
The AMD Gaming Evolved app that comes with drivers has a game recording software. No idea how well it works, but it's there. You can also use MSI Afterburner. Even Windows 10 has a built in recorder IIRC.

Geoff said:
Wait... Are you uploading gaming videos to YouTube recorded via a cell phone?
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Are you not?!
 
The VCR King said:
LOL I use Bandicam now but before I would prop my cell phone up in front of my screen and record with that then upload it.
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Honest question - why do you think people want to watch you play PC games recorded on a cell phone with crap video and even worse audio?
 
Geoff said:
Honest question - why do you think people want to watch you play PC games recorded on a cell phone with crap video and even worse audio?
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The LCD flicker and audio would drive me insane!

But I don't know, maybe he's just into video editing stuff which is fair enough. I did the same kind of thing at one point (years and years ago) lol. :D But it would be better to use a screen recorder.
 
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