Video recording in games ?
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The only other popular game recording program apart from fraps seems to be gamecam, not sure how it compares -
http://www.planetgamecam.com/
Or if space is an issue get a gfx card with tv out and record the footage into a video recorder, then get a capture card for your pc to get the footage back into the pc.
http://www.planetgamecam.com/
Or if space is an issue get a gfx card with tv out and record the footage into a video recorder, then get a capture card for your pc to get the footage back into the pc.
fraps and a peice of video editing software it'll have to be then!
dbmzk1 said:
Maybe with a QX6700, the motherboard maxed out with RAM and a dedicated fast HDD it would give it a damn good try, but I agree most peoples current PC's won't cut it for 'on the fly' playing, recording and encoding.
dbmzk1 said:
A dual core cpu could easily do it. Even my pc can record vga video at 30fps and encode it to xvid on the fly with plenty of cycles to spare, another core would be able to run the game. Hdd speed isn't an issue either as the encoded video would be less than 1MB/s.
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Energize said:
Lets put it this way, the Fraps team have only recently unlocked full resolution capture with the release of dual core CPU's. It only works on a dual core CPU and can use 100% of the second core. Previously it only captured at 800*600 or something like that.
RAM is another issue. Todays modern games use a lot of it and use it fast. So does encoding video on the fly. So you are presented with two incredibly high bandwidth loving tasks, the speed of which a PC cannot match.
Recording VGA video is a lot different from producing real time HD graphics, capturing it and encoding it all at the same time. A quad core might be able to do it I guess, but the vast majority of todays PC's are simply not powerful enough to do it. Try it.... run FEAR or something in high detail, capture using fraps at full resolution and convert a HD file into Xvid. Good luck!
Some games have their own recording commands.
For instance Quake3 Engine bases games should have.
Record a demo, play it back and do the avi command (forget what it is) with the number of frames persecond and it will screengrab how many times a second you specify. Takes up a lot of space though as you can imagine.
This is great though because you can enable all highest settings, even bigger resolution and then use a batch resize script to compress the image down making it looks even better quality.
Than setup your codec the way you like it. Long winded and you have to make it in small chunks due to the image file size, but the quality of the final movie surpasses anything fraps could churn out.
For instance Quake3 Engine bases games should have.
Record a demo, play it back and do the avi command (forget what it is) with the number of frames persecond and it will screengrab how many times a second you specify. Takes up a lot of space though as you can imagine.
This is great though because you can enable all highest settings, even bigger resolution and then use a batch resize script to compress the image down making it looks even better quality.
Than setup your codec the way you like it. Long winded and you have to make it in small chunks due to the image file size, but the quality of the final movie surpasses anything fraps could churn out.