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Fraps has been abandoned for over 3 years. I doubt it will ever get updated again.

That's why I bought Bandicam; much better product IMO. It supports OpenGL and DirectX 12 and it can even use your GPU for hardware accelerated H.264 encoding.

The only features it doesn't have which I wish it did is support for Vulkan and the ability to run a benchmark. Though I don't really care so much about the latter, and I suppose the only game I've come across which ran well on Vulkan was the latest Doom. Otherwise it's an excellent product! :)
 
Fraps has been abandoned for over 3 years. I doubt it will ever get updated again.



I don't think you need MSI hardware to use Afterburner.
Yeah you don't, use it with my gigabyte card.

Plays.TV, OBS, And Geforce Experience Sharing service are all valid options, in my opinion. OBS is a little heavy on the resources, from my experience

I've switched to Plays.tv and it works for me, haven't spent enough time with OBS to form my opinion on it yet.
 
Recommending Fraps in 2016... You should feel bad! I tried it the other day, it still kills the most resource friendly games.
I tried OBS but I could not get it to work correctly, I always got black screens, switched over to plays.TV and much happier. I did use Shadowplay for a while yet for me it seems to be buggy. It will record the last x minutes chosen and then sometimes just not work at all.
 
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