How to Record Minecraft Gameplay on PC Easily without Lag

Minecraft is a very popular sandbox game where you can collect sources and create your own world step by step. After several days of effort to build an outstanding world, you may want to record a video of Minecraft to upload on YouTube and TikTok. Or you want to record the process of creating a word as a tutorial. How to record Minecraft videos?

Here are two common ways to record Minecraft easily through the recorders. In these ways, you can record the desired Minecraft videos of your beautiful world with high quality.

Part 1: The Best Way to Record Minecraft in High Quality without Lag

Tipard Screen Capture is the best gameplay recorder to record Minecraft videos with high quality. With its fast processing speed, the lag is less than other recorders. Moreover, the flexible adjustment of video format, quality, and frame rate can make the recordings of Minecraft have high quality with less lag.

• 1. Record Minecraft videos with voice and take screenshots easily in high quality.
• 2. Occupy less CPU/GPU/RAM to reduce the lag when recording Minecraft gameplay.
• 3. Adjust the recording area, audio track, and webcam freely.
• 4. Output the recordings in any format, resolution, frame rate, and quality to upload on different video platforms.

After that, you can clip the extra parts at the beginning and the end. Then click the Save button to choose the storage path and save it.

Using Tipard Screen Capture will minimize the lag when recording Minecraft. And there is also a common way to record videos while live broadcasting at the same time. Please read the following part.

Part 2: How to Record Minecraft through OBS (with a Lag)

Another frequently used way to record Minecraft is using Open Broadcaster Software(OBS). It is a live streaming tool with the screen capture function to record Minecraft videos. It's a rather complex tool with more powerful features besides recording videos. However, it will occupy more CPU, which will record Minecraft with more lag even if you reduce the frame rate. If you accept the high lag, read the following steps:

Note: Please download Visual C++ 2019 Redistributables in advance to install OBS.

Step 1Launch OBS on your computer. Firstly you should add Minecraft to OBS. Click the Scene menu and choose the Add Scene button.

Step 2Then you can select applications on your computer as the scene. Click the downward arrow in the Application option and choose the Minecraft application. Click the OK button to save the settings.

Step 3Back to the main interface, you can click the Settings button to change the recording parameters.

• Encoding: To make the recordings smaller, you should choose the x264 Encoder. As for the audio settings, just keep it as it is.

• Broadcasting Settings: If you only want to capture Minecraft videos without live broadcasting, you should choose the File Output Only option. Then you can select the File Path to save the recordings.

• Video: The resolution of videos is decided by the application you want to record, so you can't change it. About the FPS, although the original lag is high, you can lower it to 24 fps to minimize the lag.

You can also change the hotkeys according to your need.

Step 4After that, you should open the Minecraft gameplay, and press the default F9 button or the hotkey you have changed on your keyboard to start recording Minecraft.

Part 3: FAQs of Recording Minecraft

Conclusion

The above article has introduced two efficient ways to record Minecraft videos, respectively through Tipard Screen Capture and OBS. OBS is more professional for live streaming and screen recording, but it will create more lag when recording. If you want to record Minecraft with no lag, please free download Tipard Screen Capture to help you.