A good free video game recorder

any suggestions.

OBS, case closed

Ok thank you very much :)

If you have an Nvidia kepler based card and up (600series & newer) you can use Nvidia Shadowplay through GeForce experience.

Otherwise OBS

thank you, but i have a amd gpu

there also MSI afterburner if you want to try that out aswell.

Using the Intel quick sync encoder with OBS is my recommendation. Intel quick sync uses the CPU's integrated graphics to encode video and won't put any additional strain on your AMD GPU or your CPU. Another option is the raptr game overlay. Rapr provides game capture and streaming functionality and supports AMD's VCE encoder. VCE is amd's hardware accelerated video encoder that competes with Nvidia's nvenc. Nvenc can also be used with OBS and is not completely bound to shadowplay, which is great.

AMD does have it's own recording thing too, i can't remember what it's but just google it :)

tried it... well i tried to try it... damn thing is too confusing.

go OBS and mess with all the settings until you dial it in right, and if you have issues, use the 32 bit version, it's more "reliable"

If you have a 7000 or 200 series amd gpu you can use VCE in OBS. 

Sorry for butting in though but does anyone know how to make the footage of OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) more richer to be like more comparable to Fraps since heheh, (please don't shun me) if not make it less demanding so that the performance hit won't be that big as it use to.

Specs:

AMD FX 6300 4.5Ghz

Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo

M5A99X EVO R 2.0

Coolermaster K350 no side panel

Asus R9 270X TOP

My current video Bit rate is 10k which seems ok but comparing to Fraps is like night and day. I upload random Gaming footage usually errors that happen in the game once in a while to YouTube. 

Yeah I wish AMD would keep up, they're behind in almost everything!

Another alternative (although not as powerful as OBS) is VLC - http://lifehacker.com/the-best-hidden-features-of-vlc-1654434241
It allows desktop recording, so I'm assuming it will work with a game. but not 100% on that or what the quality would be. If anyone has used it for this let us know. 

sorry for the late reply but thanks to all. i chose obs.