After discussing the various uses which use an old PC now no longer suited to gaming and how to improve one with some simple steps to overclocking, the third round extra our Guide PC is dedicated to a number of useful software in the field of gaming, but sometimes not used. Starting from the more generic NVIDIA GeForce Experience and AMD Gaming Evolved developed by the respective manufacturers of video cards, we go down more specifically dealing with some very useful software like Fraps and OBS, sometimes little known but certainly very useful for specific uses . We deliberately left out the major gaming platforms such as Steam and purchase, Battle.net, Origin – yes, we missed on purpose because Uplay Ubisoft titles are all available on Steam, so if you want to play them head on the pages of the store rather than Valve on those issues of the software publisher’s French – because you need to play and then known by heart by every “PCista”, instead directing our efforts toward other programs as useful, but certainly less used. If you are looking for optimization, overclocking the video card or programs for the acquisition and streaming will surely find one that suits you.
NVIDIA GeForce Experience
The software developed by the colossus of Santa Clara for its video cards is practically a must for anyone who owns a mock up. Its most useful features remain automatically update video drivers and the ability to optimize the games in your library with a simple click depending on the hardware available. 
Very often it happens that the release of a new title to be released specific drivers that should improve performance with a specific family video card and have a chance to do updates automatically is extremely convenient and practical. However, from what has been made available on the manufacturer’s site, GeForce Experience has undergone various changes and implementations that have followed the step made by NVIDIA in recent years as part of the PC gaming, expanding his horizons before adding Shadowplay and then with full support to the handheld console Shield and consequently the stream of titles on the small screen directly from your home PC. In Italy the Shield there are very few, but many more are the players who habitually use application to capture game footage with Shadowplay or directly transmit their games online on Twitch. The advantage of have a functionality typically implemented on a program tied hand in glove with the video card is in fact the largest optimization between the hardware and the software, which in this case does not go through GPU acceleration to impact too much on performance in game. You can select the resolution and quality video and audio, and start recording using a shortcut without needing to resort to external third party programs.
AMD Gaming Evolved
For those who prefer the AMD cards, there is a program almost completely analogous. Gaming Evolved also allows to optimize their titles with a simple click depending on the hardware, setting the graphics settings in order to make the best of a video without going to affect playability and fluidity. 
Video cards Graphics Core Next (HD 7000 / R9 / R7 Series), also support the Video Codec Engine (VCE) to hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding when streaming and recording: This makes it possible to capture their own games or go live on Twitch directly without the need for secondary programs. As happened with the previous program, thanks to the optimization Gaming Evolved allows encoding burdening the bare minimum hardware, with an impact in terms of performance according to AMD wanders introno to 3 frames per second. Finally the function Game DVR records continuously and allows players to save from 10 seconds to 20 minutes of gameplay on the hard disk, so that if something unexpected happens and “sensational” during gameplay users can always have the ability to save what has just occurred. The biggest difference with the program NVIDIA is partnering closely by AMD with Raptr, the application that keeps track of all activities related to gaming on your PC. Statistics, hours played and so are saved on your profile and compared with those of other players in your friends list, or with those who have played the same securities. What is new, however, is that playing, contributing to the activity of the community and optimizing the games you earn points to spend on taking home new titles or video cards. Needless to say, it takes a lot of points, but if you spend several hours a day with a mouse and keyboard, you might as well start putting aside their booty.
MSI AfterBurner
Of this we had already spoken in the previous extra themed overclocking. MSI Afterburner is definitely the best application if you want to operate on frequencies and voltages of the video card and squeeze it to its fullest potential. 
Afterburner MSI was initially set by the developers to be used only with the boards of the company in Taipei, but soon His support was extended to all video cards GeForce line of NVIDIA and AMD Radeon becoming a universal application for overclocking the GPU. The interface is quite clean and intuitive, allowing you to change the voltage with a few clicks and the frequency of the graphics processor in addition to the frequency of the memories and the speed of the fans, creating up to five profiles to be selected according to the needs of the moment. One of the fundamental problems when you overclocking a video card is definitely the temperature of the graphics chip, which must not rise excessively to avoid compromising the integrity of the hardware and damage it irreparably. In this sense, Afterburner provides a series of graphs updated in real time showing the power, use and GPU temperature by recording the maximum and minimum peak values that will return definitely useful after running a benchmark program. If these are kept below 80 degrees, we can be sure, but if we see that the graph line exceeds this value it is better to stop the test and lower values. A very comprehensive program in short, that with the years and the subsequent improvements was confirmed as genuine essential tool for anyone wanting to get the most out of your video card, proving in many cases superior to the various proprietary software developed by the same producers of video cards .
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Razer Cortex
This is a fairly new program, developed by Razer, one of the most famous companies in field devices from gaming. Mice, keyboards and headsets come all accompanied by your personalization software but in this case the California-based company has gone further by setting up a useful program to three hundred and sixty degrees, with some really interesting features. First, after having discovered all the games installed on the PC, it gives us a chance to make a back up of the bailouts of all games using Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive unifying this function regardless of the platform to which it is linked to the online game. 
Whether the securities are on Steam rather than on Battle.net, all backups will be exported automatically saved in the same virtual space and accessed from our profile Razer. The section Boost instead provides a comprehensive overview of all the processes running on your PC by specifying the use of the processor and memory, with the ability to close the most expensive to gain in performance. We could not miss the section Share from which see screenshots and videos shot during play sessions. You can choose the resolution, quality video and sound, but lacks the ability to upload on video sharing sites and “streammare” content directly on Twitch or similar platforms. Given the address that has taken the industry we expect this feature to be inserted as soon as possible via upgrade. In terms of virtual reality Razer has clear ideas and Cortex is already prepared for OSVR, the viewer open source presented at the last CES in Las Vegas that should debut on the market in the year. The section dedicated to VR now is nothing more than a repository of information and updates on the development of the device that will gradually fill with content dedicated to this technology.
TeamSpeak
TeamSpeak has surely needs no introduction as it is the software used to communicate online with their playmates. Thanks to its open source nature is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linus, and is constantly updated by a community of programmers enthusiasts who improve relentlessly releasing new add-on. 
The big advantage of this program, however, is that it can run in the background with an incidence almost in both performance that on the Internet: with its graphics essential no effect at all on the processor and consumes only 1 Kb / s upload bandwidth, to reach out to all types of connection. With the release of the final version 3 there have been many improvements, especially in terms of quality. Have been implemented new codecs for better sound quality, automatic adjustment of the microphone volume, reduction of background noise and advanced echo cancellation, for a communication really high quality. As for the management of conversations you can create virtual rooms where you can come and go, or only if you know the password, chat with other people, send and receive multimedia files and more. The real comfort is the ability to create servers in which find themselves with their friends or with a community of enthusiasts to a specific title and play together by organizing events, parties and tournaments in multiplayer. Voice chat is undoubtedly the fastest and usable than text and is definitely a preferable choice for titles like MOBA and first-person shooter where coordination is critical, or for the MMO when you find yourself playing with their friends. The strength of TeamSpeak lies in the possibility of being able to create a virtual private to share only with members of their team or their guild, which can be allowed, banned or warned by the admin that has full powers of management within the server. Each of these can accommodate up to 32 users in its free version, that number grows if you decide to buy one of the licenses available in the official store.
Fraps
Fraps is a small program that allows you to display on the screen the number of frames per second which is turning the selected application to realize any drop in fluidity and the size of the same . 
This allows players to experiment with different graphics settings having undergone at hand is tangibly than you have changed the performance, looking for a balance between the fluidity and the visual quality of display screen. The number of frames per second can be displayed in one of the four corners of the screen and you can enable the feature to record the minimum, maximum, and average game session so you can analyze retrospectively PC performance. In addition to the frames per second allows you to take screenshots using a single hotkey and likewise to record gameplay videos. However this last function we can not really advise you, as it is quite heavy and records video occupying a monstrous amount of space on your hard drive. There are certainly preferable alternative, lighter and with more possibilities for customization that perform the full scope. Fraps is therefore recommended only and exclusively to the possibility of sending more frames per second in the foreground on the screen, a feature very useful if you want to get an idea of the performance of their gaming machine.
OBS
Many times we receive messages asking which program to use to make acquisitions or the video stream on Twitch. OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) program is probably the most versatile and complete for such purposes, and is completely free. Very lightweight execution allows you to record and “streammare” without affecting the performance of the system, with a wide range of personal, definitely the best offer from a free program. For each “scene” of can match more “Video Sources” such as the title and running the webcam to comment in real-time gameplay, also automatically recognizes all external devices connected to the system such as microphone and headset to be selected as a sound source input and output at will . 
Unlike programs that had previously seen the profiles predefined quality, with OBS you maximum freedom of choice to do so, with the possibility to choose the scanning resolution, the streaming media, the bitrate of video encoding and audio of that, the number of frames per second and a number of advanced options that will guarantee a great freedom of choice. Unless you just want to record video, but send them directly to a streaming broadcast, the program has already the default profiles for all the major sites that offer this type of service as Twitch, Hitbox, YouTube, Azubu, all related to a list of servers selected for the best transmission quality. In last OBS is fully compatible with the external video capture devices like Elgato or capture cards dell’AverMedia, expanding its use for console players that only with the help of a laptop can set up their video productions. If you want to record video of gameplay or play a stream on Twitch of games available on the home console of old and new generation use the Elgato coupled with OBS is hands down the preferable option, also if, as said, there is the need to have necessarily a PC at hand. Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have both the function integrated streaming, but often suffer from problems of bandwidth and do not allow you to set in detail the quality of video transmission. Switch to OBS allows you to bypass these limitations as well as adding a number of customization options of which they understand the potential only by trying it in the first person. A program very complete and highly recommended.
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