I know there's lots of software available to record gameplay video actively, like as in you know you want to record everything after you hit record. But I want to record like a dashcam, where it keeps recording and when you hit a button it will save the last however many minutes you want only, and automatically keeps overwriting gameplay where you didn't want to save any of it. Doing it the normal way takes up so much disk space and has you needing to keep on top of deleting uninteresting video.

Also when I use the XBox Game Bar video recorder, the playback doesn't look good compared to when I'm actually playing. Low FPS and and seemingly a slight degradation of graphic quality are what's in the videos I make. What do I need to know here to make it look better? Is it just the software being used, or something else?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Edit: Thanks for the responses

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Sniz3r t1_ja74dxw wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:43 AM

NVIDIA has this allready built in GeForce experience. Just open the overlay and set how long is the time it saves. If ur using NVIDIA GPU that is.

Traditional-Shoe-199 t1_ja7894g wrote on February 27, 2023 at 10:38 AM

Shadow play

SGXR_Devs t1_ja6unr9 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:25 AM

Last I recall to record gameplay footage like a dashcam, you can use a software that offers "Shadow recording" or "Instant Replay" feature. This feature lets the software continuously record the gameplay footage in the background while you're playing, and when you press a specific button, it saves the last few minutes (usually configurable) of the recorded footage. The software then starts recording again and overwrites the previously saved footage. Some examples of software that offer this feature are NVIDIA ShadowPlay, AMD ReLive, and OBS Studio. All pc of course.

nnonymus t1_ja6wbda wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:47 AM

Can attest that OBS has historically done this very well. Haven't used it in a couple of years though fwiw

trappedonjupiterhelp OP t1_ja6xbyw wrote on February 27, 2023 at 8:01 AM

Thanks a lot

DanFarrell98 t1_ja73leo wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:31 AM

This is how it works on PlayStation so I'm guessing it's possible on PC

americanista915 t1_ja6xbln wrote on February 27, 2023 at 8:01 AM

I downloaded the Valorant tracker app and now it records every single one of my games I open including Roblox and tycoons