
OBS tells me that I need to set my recording resolution to an aspect ratio of 16:9 to "avoid black borders." I have a 4:3 monitor (took me years to get my computer to a decent level, can't upgrade my monitor for a looooong time). The most known downside to fraps is the gigantic file sizes it produces you'd definitely need a compressor, but it would take even more time to compress these seeing that a normal 20 min video could top off at more than 20gb when you finish recording with Fraps.I've tried livestreaming and recording videos for Warframe in the past, only to find that no matter what my settings were, it looked awful. It all depends on your system if you can't run the game your playing at a stable framerate Fraps will tank your FPS hard I mean hard. Now if I try fraps in another game like Batman Arkham Knight where my fps hover from 50-60 it would cap my fps at 30. For example, if I have around 270fps while in a League Of Legends match when I turn on fraps it caps out my fps at 60 stable while if I try to record with Action! or Bandicam in the same situations my fps would hover around 90-110 fps. Third best I've used is Fraps now Fraps records with amazing quality I mean amazing, but the downside to it is that it caps your own framerate in whatever you're playing. If you end up trying virtual dub, I can upload my processing settings for it. I record my videos 15 minutes each and the file size is around 2-3gb when I run it through virtual dub it comes out 300-500mb with very I mean very little quality loss. Everyone in life would recommend handbrake, but I recommend virtual dub this program does a godlike job compressing a video if you optimize it with the right settings. The downside is that it doesn't have a built-in compressor like action does you would need to find your own. Bandicam is very stable doesn't take up a lot of CPU, doesn't tank your framerate, and records at amazing quality with decent file size.
