A screen and game recorder built around hardware encoding, capturing high frame rate footage at a small file size without dragging the machine down while it records.
Overview
Bandicam has stayed in use for years because it gets the important trade right. Recording at a high frame rate normally means either an enormous file or a machine that stutters while it works. By handing the encoding to the graphics hardware, it produces a small file at a high frame rate while leaving most of the processor free for whatever you are actually recording.
There are three capture modes and each has a clear purpose. Screen mode records a rectangle you drag out or a whole monitor. Game mode hooks the graphics pipeline directly and captures the frame buffer, which is far more efficient than reading the screen and works properly with full screen applications. Device mode records an external source such as a capture card or a webcam.
Audio handling is more thorough than most recorders manage. System sound and microphone are recorded as separate tracks so they can be balanced afterwards rather than being mixed permanently at capture time. Multiple input devices can be recorded at once, and the mixer shows levels while recording so you find out about a dead microphone during the take rather than after it.
The extras are the ones people actually use: scheduled recording that starts and stops on its own, a webcam overlay with a chroma key so the background can be dropped out, real time drawing on the screen while recording, mouse click and cursor highlighting for tutorials, and a screenshot tool with timed intervals.
Output covers the common formats with a choice of hardware encoders across the major graphics vendors. This build is licensed, so the watermark and the ten minute recording limit of the trial are both gone.
Feature set
Encoding runs on the graphics card, keeping file sizes small and the processor free during long recordings.
Hooks the graphics pipeline directly rather than reading the screen, which is far more efficient in full screen applications.
System sound and microphone recorded independently so they can be balanced after the fact.
Picture in picture with a chroma key for dropping out the background, positioned anywhere in the frame.
Starts and stops on its own at set times, useful for capturing something you will not be present for.
Licensed configuration with the trial watermark and the ten minute cap removed.
Changes in this build
Installation
Hardware
| Processor | Intel or AMD dual core, quad core recommended for high frame rate capture |
|---|---|
| Memory | 4 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended |
| Graphics | A card with a hardware encoder, otherwise software encoding is used at a higher cost |
| Storage | Fast drive with plenty of free space, footage accumulates quickly |
| Display | Any, multi monitor supported |
| System | Windows 7 through Windows 11, 64-bit |
Package
| Title | Bandicam |
|---|---|
| Version | 8.3.1.2537 |
| Developer | Bandisoft |
| Category | Video Editing |
| Platform | Windows 7 / 8 / 10 / 11 (64-bit) |
| Package size | 42.6 MB |
| Interface languages | Multilingual (17 interface languages) |
| Release identifier | BS-83125371 |
| Listed | 5 years ago |
| Last rebuilt | 4 days ago |
| Total downloads | 174,243 |
Questions
No. The licensed configuration removes the ten minute cap and the watermark that the trial applies.
Game mode. Screen mode works but costs considerably more performance in a full screen application.
Yes, as its own track, which is the setting to use if you expect to fix levels afterwards.
Almost always the storage rather than the processor. Record to a fast drive that is not also holding the application you are capturing.
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