Free and simple video capturing

I'm reinstalling an OS (win7) to the laptop of my cousin's kid. He likes to capture vids real time while playing, Minecraft and CS:GO seems to be his favourites. Since I don't capture anything I have no clue about programs for it.
The kid is some under 10 years old so something relatively simple would be nice. Laptop has gf 920m in it,
Suggestions for free and simple programs would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Check out OBS also a few other threads here with other suggestions..

 

I use Nvidia Shadowplay, you need to install Geforce Experience to get that feature. (not sure if it works with mobile gpu's though, but I don't see why not)

Sadly the recent V3 version require to create and use an Nvidia Account. I have installed an older V2 version, but on start (and every few weeks) it wants to update to a new version without option to skip.
The work-around is to rename 'setup.exe' to anything else in 'C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\GeForce Experience\Update'.

 

Sorry, but OBS is the opposite of simple. But it is free, that's true.

I think the closest to simple and free are the tools that AMD and nVidia provide with their drivers.

 

Bandicam: easy to use, light but not free

 

Thanks for the answers. Since money is not an option I'll check that Shadowplay, I don't thing creating an account will be a problem.

 

Shadowplay is now Nvidia Share and would be a good place to start as you should already have it if your Nvidia driver is up to date. It should be enabled by default otherwise enable share in Geforce experience under settings.

Otherwise OBS is worth a try. Just set up game capture as a source and assign a key to start/end recording.

Remember that all video capture software takes resources so you may have to play around with settings to avoid a performance hit.

 

BTW: Shadowplay/Share only records in fullscreen mode, so if for some reason AC is in borderless windowed mode it won't start to record, then press Alt+Enter to set AC to fullscreen mode again.

 

OBS is great, and really simple to set up for recording gameplay footage. It can get a little annoying and fiddly if you have multiple sound sources though, taking a bit of trial and error before all the streams work just as you want them. Once it`s all sorted though, it`s a simple one-button record/stop that works perfectly every time.

 

msi afterburner and obs have good recording software for free

 

this isn't the case anymore and hasn't been for a while, windowed games work the same now

 

I've used OBS on two computer and I find it incredibly simple. Watch a five minute YouTube video on how to initially set it up (and the initial setup is pretty easy) and after that all you do is press a button to start recording and press another one to stop recording, couldn't be much simpler and the output quality is plenty good. Plus you can use it for streaming to Twitch just as easily.

 

I spent quite a bit of time configuring OBS to capture the middle screen. It was anything but intuitive and I usually don't need tutorials for things like that. But at least it works with triple screen setups, while Shadow Play does not with nVidia Surround enabled.

 

I heard that the kid reads english fairly well so I'm gonna install OBS aswell, I assume it doesn't have a finnish language version. Kids are pretty smart computer wise these days so who knows he might find OBS easy to learn.

 

I was quite surprised to find out that Win 10 has it's own video capture software - https://www.howtogeek.com/219947/how-to-record-pc-gameplay-with-windows-10’s-game-dvr-and-game-bar/

Yep - he shouldn't have a problem as OBS is the favoured application for game streamers on twitch, so there are lots of guides available. Here is a good place to start - https://www.howtogeek.com/183231/how-to-record-your-desktop-and-create-a-screencast-on-windows/

 

Shouldn't take any time at all, just click on the screen and drag it left or right so only the center screen is showing, takes two seconds.

 

I'm playing in 3d vision 2 and want to record some gameplay in 2d. My recorded file plays back as side by side. I've played about with resolution but still no good. Anyone help? Using shadowplay.
Thanks

 

You can upload to yt in 3d so it would actually be something different, you can edit out one side in an editor or just record a replay instead of live gameplay in 2D. I dont think you can capture 2d when rendering in SBS 3d in shadowplay or likely many other video capture software programs.

 

Thanks Marty, I found that fraps let's you select 3d or non 3d. Looks like it will do nicely, pity it wasn't just as simple in Shadow play.....bloody Nvidia.