Live Game Play Recording Software -- What Do I Need?

Hey! It's great that your going to start uploading on Youtube, it's a very exciting start.

For myself I don't use free software since I purchased/have a discount through my school (I use Premiere Pro to edit and Action! to record then I use my video camera for my voice audio and face-cam)

But if you are looking for free software OBS would definitely be a great start. I have used streamlabs obs personally but I'm sure that they are similar enough to where you could just use either for recording and not streaming purposes.

As far as OBS tips the one by the Youtube channel TechGumbo is well explained (I can't post links yet since I'm new to the forums)
Side-tip: if your laptop fan get's too loud you may have to record in 30fps instead of 60 which shouldn't be really noticeable since it's the sims and not a first-person shooter or something.

Let me know if you need help on anything else! Best of luck!

Hey @ItsYukiMe ! Thanks for your response! :)

So I've actually started with Audacity (still learning the software) for audio and OBS for recording game play; however, when I start recording with OBS, my game gets real laggy with playback--but it doesn't lag at all when I'm actually playing and recording. There's this encoding overloaded notification that pops up. Do you have any idea how I could get this fixed so that my gameplay and recording are in sync?

@23kels89 No problem!

Hmmm, the OBS encoding overload thing might be because either the settings it's recording at are too high and/or your computer might not have enough hardware to encode it properly. Is your computer more on the older side perhaps?

There's this video on Youtube that might help: Best OBS Studio Recording Settings For A Bad PC!! Even Laptops!!! (Works 2019... For now)

in the beginning he changes his screen resolution down to 1280x720 but I would try to keep it at your default if it still works. But if you have to change it then also change the resolution in the sims! So it stays consistent between the two. Also I think you can change the fps in the sims from 60 to 30 and if you change it to 30 in OBS as well that should also help a little.

Hopefully that works!

@ItsYukiMe
My current computer that I'm using now is actually pretty new. About a year old with 1TB. But hey! I've tested out the Action! and let me tell you--it's flawless!

Now, I've downloaded OBS to my laptop to test it out on that (just waiting on the Sims contents to download -- forgot I removed it off that laptop :# ) and I'll see if it still gives me problems. The laptop is several years old now but runs the Sims 4 games smoothly. While waiting on the contents to download, I tested OBS with its recording display. Just moved the cursor around the screen and flipped back and forth on tabs--still got the same encoding error! I tried to decrease some settings but it still came out weird and image was blurry. Not the best software for me, I guess.

But I'm going to do a few more tweaking with OBS and if I still can't get anything right, I'm going to purchase Action! So far it has been the best recording software I have tried thus far! ;)

@23kels89
Awesome! Yeah when I started recording I looked-up up and watched a bunch of reviews of different recording software and Action! is so user friendly.

It's weird that more people don't talk about it honestly. The different modes between game capture/window capture/and recording a specific area are so nice to have. There's plenty of great tutorials on how to set-up Action! for many different things so I'm glad that it worked for you too!