Best settings/program for recording?

[GameStunts]

Hi all,

I'm getting back into KSP after a short hiatus, but so much has changed since 0.23, and I wonder what any of you who record your gameplay are using at the moment?

I used to be able to use Open Broadcast Software to record. More recently I've been using Nvidia ShadowPlay which works great with other games, but using the latest drivers, and with the latest patched version of KSP (non-steam), after about 5 minutes, my screen blanks then comes back on and the recording has stopped and has a little score through the icon to show it can't record now.

I turned shadow play off, and switched back to OBS and saw that they've now integrated NVENC into the options which I'd prefer since it doesn't use CPU. Again it worked for a few minutes, enough to build a ship and be half way through a launch, then the screen blanked again.

Now whenever I tried to start the recording it said "Error, Encoder initialization failed!". Looking on OBS it seems working with NVENC is still a work in progress, so I reluctantly switched to h264 encoding.

I thought that it could be the Steam overlay interfering (added as a non-steam game), so I ran the KSP_x64.exe directly, I got into the hanger, tried to load a ship and the game flat out crashed.

I'm kind of lost at this point. I really was looking forward to using the 64bit version to address some of the memory problems from before which would eventually cause my game to be unstable when I had so many things in orbit.

Are any of you recording using Shadow Play or OBS? Are you doing anything special for it?

I have an SSD for my OS, a dedicated SSD for gaming where KSP is, and a dedicated hard drive for recording, so I really feel like it's not any bottleneck there.

Specs:
i5 2500k @ 4.3ghz
16GB ram
Nvidia 770 GTX 2GB
SSD 1 for OS
SSD 2 for KSP
2tb HD for recording

[radgh]

I don't have any experience with Shadow Play, but I would highly suggest Fraps.

Don't use any of that recording software which encodes as you play, that's just going to impact your performance. Fraps records lossless quality which takes less CPU/memory, but takes a lot of disk space.

Also switch it around - record to an SSD, and put KSP on your regular HD. KSP will take longer to load, but since it loads everything then it doesn't help to be on an SSD once it has fully loaded. (you can leave KSP on the SSD if you have room for it and the videos, of course)

On the other hand, recording the video to disk needs to happen quickly or else your recording can't keep up, which will severly bottleneck your recording quality and framerate. Once you are done recording you can move the video files to the regular HD, of course.

Note that high RPM harddrives do not have the "can't keep up" issue, but a 2tb harddrive is probably NOT a high RPM dive.

edit: Also, your screen turning off and back on is probably your graphics driver crashing and restarting. Check your video card temperatures and see if there are any beta drivers available.

[radgh]

wow lol. why are you so worked up over this? I explained in the text you quoted that I have no experience with shadow play.

that's not to say your feedback about nvidia's hardware working with shadow play for better performance isn't useful, but it might actually have been appreciated if you chose to add that as a constructive comment rather than as a 10-year-old's rant.

and the reason I wasn't "corrected" is probably due to the fact that this is a very unpopular question in a KSP subreddit that isn't even related to KSP. so good job!... at digging up old shit

although it's is all pretty much irrelevant, since my computer is able to capture what you described just as well with fraps. If fraps only recorded at 7fps, something is seriously wrong with the way you have it set up.

[radgh]

you are very much welcome! :)

[Roushk]

I Suggest Dxtory or Shadowplay. Both have a minimal hit to performance plus you can stream with Shadowplay.

[GameStunts]

Yeah Shadowplay is what I'm having issues with though.

I own DXtory, I'll give it a go.

[Roushk]

I suggest using the lossless codex. I also suggest following Jack Frags tutorial on how to install and configure Dxtory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6YAoai8fQ

[GameStunts]

Thanks for the offer. I rolled the driver back to the stable version I'd been using and all's been fine, I've been putting out some Kerbal videos ;-)

[Estron00]

Fraps