Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-6991905-20150405224253/@comment-24840690-20150417090215

SuperSajuuk wrote: To respond to the points raised above, it's pretty easy to get good quality videos on YouTube now, due to all the options available to record games. If you have an up-to-date nVidia graphics card (newer than GTX 600 and at least 330 drivers), you have Shadowplay, which records the game screen with no performance loss and I think that, for the most part, people here will have an nVidia card.

Since YouTube supports high frame rate playback, I think we should make a requirement that you should be able to record 60fps. With Shadowplay available, this is not difficult. If, for some reason, you don't have an nVidia graphics card that meets the requirements, there is Fraps and Dxtory, but unless you've got a drive that has a super high write speed, this won't be as good quality and may be at a lower FPS (eg 50fps). If you can't record anything higher than 30fps, then the video will be poor quality and do no justice to the games whatsoever.

This is an age where people will have decent PC's. If the best you can record is only 480, not HD, then you might want to upgrade. :D

Being one of the few here who has a youtube channel with a decent following, I would like to suggest that I be one of those council members, since I know the kinds of software people can use and what kind of quality is "acceptable".

I have an up to date nvidia card, it's not newer than the GTX 600 but it does it's job well. Don't think i have 330 drivers. As for recording software, i only use bandicam despite the free version having a 10 minute record limit. I have tried fraps and found it a nuisance to even understand. My pc is capable of handling several games at once like world of warcraft, starcraft, skyrim, lotro online, runescape, smite, strife, swtor, age of empires 2 and the conquerors expansion if i keep the graphics to a minimum along with assistance from some game booster programs where i can still play but said graphics are still decent. This may not seem like a lot, however not everyone has the money to be able to upgrade their pc myself being an example. So "this being an age where people will have decent pc's" is not entirely true. Also, just because you have a decent following on youtube doesn't mean you should be promoted to a council member. And why should you be the one to tell people what kind of quality is acceptable? Note the sentence about decent pc's. If you can't seem to open your mind to the bigger picture, then maybe you should take the time to try.