Good (free) video recording software?

Right now I'm using Xsplit GameCaster, Although, I recommend OBS, but sometimes it messes up your recordings.

I'd tell you to get DxTory if you can pay, If you don't want to just use shadowplay.

Also gl doing a successful gaming channel on YT right now, all gaming channels are dead now except the very big ones.

The only way to get noticed is doing funny skits (SolidShibe and dolan dark style or bionic pig) or cancer commentaries. Otherwise you have to be very good and get a lot of attention (make some drama) to grow.

No personal experience, but.. LoiLo game recorder might be a good, easy choice. Hard to find trustworthy reviews of it, though.

It can be any... I can recommend Bandicam, its not free (yea it is but u have watermark on top) but u can still download full... U know what i mean.

Open Broadcaster Software

free, powerful, great performance

if you have an NVIDIA card i think you can use Shadowplay.

OBS seems to be the one most people use, and it's completely free. I last used Fraps about 3 years ago and it was shit, I don't know if its improved since then.

Either Nvidia Shadowplay, OBS or XSplit come to mind.
AMD used to have a similar functionality with Gaming Evolved/Raptr but then they changed it and now it's shit.

Shadowplay is the best both Performance and quality wise the only downside is the voice audio quality game audio is fine but i would recommend using audacity for it anyway so :)

depending on your videocard, i recorded this video with plays tv and it was pretty smooth

OBS is best.

I recommend nVidia ShadowPlay, it's pretty smooth, no lags, recording desktop and It is perfect for youtube. And it's free of course. Or MSI Afterburner.

if you're on windows 10, game dvr is an option

If for some ungodly unexplainable reason you have GeForce Experience installed, might as well use Shadowplay.
Otherwise OBS.
Both use h.264 encoder (forget NVenc, it is terrible).

I use MSI Afterburner.

Works awesome and also has some GPU tools as well.

OBS simply gives a black screen on laptops with two Graphics cards.
There is no solution to it anywhere. The only solution is to disable the Intel Graphics card and let everything run on my NVidia Graphics card, but that would be nonsense.

And that NVidia recorder does not work either (only on several games) for laptops since the last version, which was released a month ago.

XSplit does not work either, for the sake of god it keeps crashing.

I am just going to try MSI and otherwise I'll have to spend money.

MSI is terribly confusing to set up properly. I've decided to buy the full version of Icecream for 30 euros.

A good idea is gamedvr on windows 10. You can record any game on computer and xbox one.

Try it out!

IF you have Nvidia then Use Shadowplay and if you're an AMD user then use its Plays.tv Recording software. Both are free and have the least impact on your game performance plus both allow you to create fine videos with various range of bitrates and have the least amount of size of its video files. I also have a youtube channel and am using Plays.tv(AMD) its been Great aside from a few crashes.

Fraps was great at first but honestly it isn't that good. Windows 10 was amazing but it isn't that good either some games you can't record in fullscreen. The best So far that I have tried is the Nividia Geforce experience recorder. It's pretty much flawless you can't even feel the game is recording .

I strongly Suggest to use Nividia to record games and use different software like Obs/xsplit or Action for Desktop.