Free game recording software? Does it exist?

ffmpeg(dshow) + DirectShow filter

Jing too.

Have a nice day :)

MSi afterburner, Dxtory, fraps ?
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If you're using Nvidia like me > ShadowPlay, if not - fraps should be fine.

Afterburner, no watermark unlike Fraps. It DOES show FPS on videos, but I'm sure there's a way to remove it.

shadowplay

Nvidia Shadowplay,FREE,EASY,NOT CPU DEMANDING(HEAVY) LIKE CRAPS(FRAPS),MAKES SMALL FILES UNLIKE CRAPS(FRAPS) AND THEY ARE STILL HD,ALMOST CRISP HD

Nvidia shadowplay

Open Broadcaster Software or Nvidia shadowplay is the way to go :P

oCam http://ohsoft.net/product_ocam.php I found it after a lot of searching. It's quite obscure and I've never heard of it before, but it worked! Captures sound and image, can export as mp4, avi, mpg and more. It worked for me, maybe for you too ;)

If you have an up to date Nvidia card (600 series or newer, I think, but you can force support for other Nvidia cards, like mobile chipsets, using a desktop shortcut) Nvidia Shadowplay has good recording quality and almost no performance hit. See the link here, the description describes what to do. It works back some way, but I'm not particularly sure how far. I made a test video on a 750M a while back, and they keep updating Shadowplay, so it should get better (like mic support, which was added after my recording).

Fraps, though it has that little Fraps logo at the top.

I use XSplit Broadcaster to record my stuff.

kazam

gtk-recordMyDesktop

xvidcap

Normally the ones that works the best end up with a price tag. For the ones that are free, (doesn't include OBS) they tend to lack the great features or the framerate and/or the quality aren't great.

OBS, Razer Game Booster, Raptr, Evolve, MSI Afterburner, Xfire... and all of those I have on my PC right now. There are a lot more out there too.

In my experience, you might wanna invest some time searching which video game publishers you can record. I got a couple letters from YouTube asking me to give them the permissions for each game which I had failed to obtain at the time. They took some videos down and disabled monetization on others.

SimpleScreenRecorder or GLC

For god sake, why won't you just use a program which you have to pay for, as example Mirillis Action!? Besides that, MSI Afterburner could work?

What my friend does is uses Camtasia's free trial, then when it runs out she uninstalls it completely and re-installs the free trial.

Open Broadcaster Software is pretty dang good, takes a bit to setup properly tho. Works really well for pretty much everything tho. Also, if you right click on the preview, you can change it to fit the screen, to avoid weird resizing.

use the razer game booster