It seems i forgot that there is also something like Shadowplay for AMD cards, it is called Raptr. This replay buffer records the last X seconds of video in your RAM and saves them on your hard drive whenever you want, the obvious advantage here is that you don't spam your HDD with maybe Gigabytes of video that you never needed.įor NVIDIA users there is an own solution for this called Shadowplay, as far as i know it does exactly the same but since i am using an AMD card i cannot tell you about this, if you have an NVIDIA card you may want to look into using it instead of OBS for better performance and maybe even longer replay time (read something about 20 minutes).

Maybe you already thought about just recording everything but stopped because this just wasted free space on your hard drive.Ī few weeks ago i discovered that Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), that some of you may know as the go to tool for streaming, has a function called ' replay buffer'. I am also no expert in these things so don't think there are no better solutions out there, there almost certainly are.Įdit: You might also want to look through the comments, there a lot of helpful things in there.Įveryone knows the situation, you are playing a game and something cool/ funny/glitchy or really unbelievable happens and the only thing you now can do is to tell the story of what happened.

First off, please do not be scared by the amount of text, i tried to detail every step as best as i could so everyone who did not have any experience with recording may understand it, if you already have such experience there shouldn't be much new for you.

Shadowplay recording