Flashback watches in the background and saves the last moments of your game with one key press. It was written to run unnoticed even without a beast of a PC: the graphics card does the encoding and leaves your processor alone.
Popular recorders ask a lot: a strong processor, plenty of memory, and they even drag down your game's frame rate. They punish exactly the people who most need the game to stay smooth.
Flashback was made so you can save replay clips on an average or even weaker PC without your game starting to stutter.
The image is compressed by the graphics card's dedicated encoder, the buffer lives on disk in small chunks (it doesn't stuff your memory), background jobs run at low priority, and the app sits quietly in the tray.
A built-in self-test measures CPU, memory and GPU load, dropped frames, and memory leaks over long runs.
What matters: light recording, good audio, quick sharing. Everything else is a bonus.
Capture and encoding happen on the graphics card, so the processor almost rests. The buffer goes to disk in small chunks, background jobs run at low priority, and no ghost process stays behind even after a crash.
GPU encodinglow CPUdisk bufferA full-screen editor with a timeline, thumbnails and a waveform. Frame-accurate cuts, text, automatic captions, slow motion / speed up, zoom, cropping to 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5, muting, background music, separate audio tracks, live preview. Save to MP4, GIF or WebP, with a size limit.
frame-accuratetext9:16musicThe buffer length can be set between 20 and 600 s. You choose how much comes from BEFORE the key press and how much from AFTER.
Each game gets its own FPS, bitrate, resolution and buffer length. The app switches by itself when the game comes to the front.
Scan the QR code and watch or download your clips in your phone's browser on the same Wi-Fi. No cable, no cloud.
Audio is recorded separately and aligned to the video with timestamps, so it doesn't drift. If your headset disconnects, audio recovers by itself.
A noise gate against background noise, hotkey muting, separate volume, and a live level meter in the settings.
Besides system audio you can record several output devices and single apps (e.g. Discord, Spotify), each on its own track with its own volume, adjustable separately in the editor.
When the sound spikes (say, you shout), the app saves a clip by itself. Adjustable threshold and cooldown.
Pick a size limit: a smaller copy is made that fits, ready to paste with Ctrl+V. The original stays untouched.
The app compresses older clips by itself, but only while you're not playing. They take about half the space.
After you close the game, a small window shows how long you played and which clips were made, with quick sharing.
Separate folders per game, search, favorites, filters, your own title, notes, tags and collections. Deleted clips go to the Recycle Bin.
Joining clips, montage, a duplicate finder, external clip folders, a task list for background jobs, and external editors for the “Open with…” menu.
The app sees which game is in front and files the clip under its name. Your own renaming rules work too.
It warns you when the clips drive is running low, and shows how much space each game takes.
Twelve styles – including airy, clean layouts –, nine themes, your own accent color and font. The app works in English and Hungarian.
The app tells you when a newer version is out. Downloads only go over https and are verified (SHA-256); your settings and clips stay.
Download and run the installer. Everything is included, you don't need to get anything else.
The app runs in the tray and doesn't bother you while you play. The buffer is always ready.
Something cool happened? Alt + F10, and the clip is already on the Clips page.
The latest version.
If Windows shows an “Unknown publisher” warning, click More info, then Run anyway. The app is independently made and isn't digitally signed yet.
When a new version comes out, the app tells you and updates with one click. Every change is listed here.
Capture and encoding run on the graphics card, the processor barely works. The buffer lives on disk in small chunks, background jobs run at low priority. While playing you usually won't notice it.
Yes, that's the main goal. If your graphics card has a hardware encoder (NVIDIA, AMD or Intel), it works well even on an older PC with a slightly lower resolution and bitrate. With per-game profiles you can give heavier games their own, gentler settings.
By default in the Public Videos\Clips folder, in a separate folder per game. You can change the location in Settings.
Yes: turn it on under Tools › Phone and a QR code appears. Scan it with your phone (on the same Wi-Fi) to watch and download them in the browser.
Yes. In Settings you can enter your own server's (SSH) details, and the app uploads clips there too. It's off by default.
The app checks for a newer version by itself. If there is one, an “Update” button shows up – one click, and it restarts with the new version. Your settings and clips stay.
In the app, under Settings › System › Report a problem, describe it in a few lines and send it with one click.
Find Flashback in Windows Settings → Apps. Uninstalling doesn't delete your saved clips.