Best game recording software

tankskun

tankskun

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Hi all, whats the best software I could use to capture ingame videos, I know of fraps and wegame but they seem to record very slow.

Or will I need a video recorder card or something?
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full version of fraps can record at full screen 60fps.
but it takes up huge amounts of hard drive space.

so i'll be watch to see if anyone knows of anything better to do the job
 
FRAPS is alright. Set to record half size and 30fps and save content to another hdd and it should be fine. The finished video will be a large file but simply use AVS video converter to reduce the size down to normal, quality is still very decent but file size has decreased a lot. It also allows you to join the files back together if it exceeded the size limit and created another file.
 
Fraps is the best. Hands down. Bought it, worth every penny.

You need a decent computer of-course, you're essentially taking a screenshot of the screen 30 times a second. Large disk space is required because it obviously can't compress it while it's recording, that would slow it down even more. Splitting the video up into 4GB sections is because it would be impractical to be working with such a large file, so it records it in multiple smaller files.

If you get stuttering it's probably because your HDD isn't fast enough to store so much information so quickly, so turn down your resolution or record at a lower FPS. Likewise with the GFX card.

Honestly, you won't find a better tool.
 
If you want to record continually then you don't have many options, Fraps is fine if you split the recording and don't leave it on for hours on end. If you do want to then I'd suggest splitting your monitor cable and feeding it out to a digital camcorder or as I use to do a few years ago - output it to a VCR! (quality was pretty iffy though on VCR..)
 
Kami said:
If you want to record continually then you don't have many options, Fraps is fine if you split the recording and don't leave it on for hours on end. If you do want to then I'd suggest splitting your monitor cable and feeding it out to a digital camcorder or as I use to do a few years ago - output it to a VCR! (quality was pretty iffy though on VCR..)
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ok I tried fraps its not that bad, thanks for everyones help.

But I really like this idea from kami. Can you detail me more on splitting the monitor cable to a digital camcorder. And can I record at more than 60 fps this way?

Its because I play at around 300 fps in some older online game, and feel that 60 fps is a bit slow.

thanks.
 
Can't believe there's so much love for fraps, I think it's terrible. It's a total hog and when playing the game, your framerate is capped to the fraps record rate :o
Wegame is OK, try that out.
 
I'd like to half agree with the not liking FRAPS too much. The file size is a bit of an issue when it comes to actually reincoding it. I did find that camtasia was good for the most part and has better software support. The only problem with it is that it won't record fullscreen games. I've recorded games at 720p res windowed with it fine and gotten a decent filesize.

I'm currently converting a 10 minute FRAPS file and the temporary rendering video file is a smidge under 70Gigs in size, which i think is a bit excessive.

I haven't tried wegame so can't comment on that but i'm just about to download it and try it.

As a side question, i'm trying to record in 1080p for high-def youtube videos. Does anyone know the best file type to encode to for that. I tried encoding to .avi but ended up with an 18Gig video, and youtube limits you to 1gig.
 
I know that games on the source engine have their own video recorder where a demo file is made, recording everything that happens in the game with effectively no performance loss, then the video can be rendered afterwards at a slower speed and higher graphs settings. I am not sure if many other games have similar recording tools.

TF2 Wiki example
 
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