WD CAVIAR BLACK is better than Seagate Barracuda. And WD VELOCIRAPTOR is the best HDD out there right now.

If Crysis 2 was on a 120GB Kingston HyperX SSD for example and recorded onto a WD Caviar Black or VelociRaptor then I believe there won't be any lag no matter which recording software is used.

Dxtory proved best for me. Mirillis Action also good but it's raw format can't be rendered in Sony Vegas Pro:(

I read that Fraps and Lagarith are about the same lossless video rate but Fraps does a faster job, no?

diretly into x264? isnt that eating your frames like cake?

You gotta look this stuff up before you start throwin' out false information.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hdd- ... ,2904.html

That's average write the most important stat when looking at frame capturing. I record from a SSD to a HDD in RAID 0 config and there's still lag, there's always lag when capturing HD footage at a high resolution.

Mirillis Action records to compressed formats. When I used it, there was no lossless recording.

It may seem like I'm attacking you on these forums, but I'm not.

Crazy tested it and said that it was really awesome in crysis2. I will get him here later.

I dunno I kinda like bandicam. Maybe I'm just weird.

Most people say you need a separate drive, preferably an SSD.

I use dxtorry now. My hardware got a boost of 5 - 10 fps in game while still recording in 50fps. Quality wise it's very comparable to fraps and yes I've used fraps for about 4 years.

Oh, and here's what you lose with YV12/YUV420/whatever:

RGB:


YV12:


Raw sizes @ 30 FPS (these are huge I tell you):

RGB: 5626 Kb/s
YV12: 2813 Kb/s

Lagarith RGB (static image FYI): 1034 Kb/s
Lag YV12: 772 Kb/s

Comparing "quality" of different programs of such type is silly, unless they're lossy.
With lossless ones, it's usually the colorspace conversions that degrade quality.

And as you can see with this extreme example (low resolution, vivid colors)
It's about non-existent, and your HDD will thank you for the extra space savings.

But yeah, Lagarith has for some reason been pretty slow for me as of late. .-.
Back in the day it encoded 800x600 at around 54 FPS, and was limited by I/O.

Now it encodes 640x480 @ 74 FPS, and is limited by CPU.
Guess silly Crysis 2 and noise filters+dithering.

I'm testing Dxtory right now, good news is I can record at playable framerates (a real challenge for my Core 2 Duo E8400), but audio is out of sync, both with Lagarith and with Dxtory codec, both at the lowest quality. Any ideas?