What do you use for recording?

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As the title says, what do you use for taking screenshots / recording gameplay? Fraps is pants tbh, so would like some suggestions.

Also, I think this is impossible but, incase its not can you take a screenie ingame without all the game HUD stuff showing up (such as health, speedometer, lives, time etc)

Cheers :p
 
In source games, the demo feature. You can configure the HUD etc so everything is turned off and you can record in 300+ fps and post process your videos so they're really smooth. It's difficult to use but it's a really good system I think.

For non source games, Dxtory is just like Fraps except vastly superior. You have to buy it though, the trial's watermark is unbearable.
 
H2F Scott said:
For non source games, Dxtory is just like Fraps except vastly superior. You have to buy it though, the trial's watermark is unbearable.
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Thats the first I've heard of that. I'll have to check that out soon. ¥3,600 = £27.24 vs $37 = £22 for Fraps. Fraps can be a bit of a pig at times with some games.
 
I used to use FRAPS but have been using the MSI Afterburner for a few months now, I have it set so it shows my FPS, GPU temp & % fan speed as well as taking screenshots and recording videos.
 
I never actually record while playing very often, I only really record demos (CoD4), so Fraps provides me with acceptable quality for that.

For screenshots I just use Xfire.
 
I use Steam for screenies now so I don't have to remember to load it up, but I'm also after a decent recording application. I used the trial of FRAPS, which is decent, but haven't tried anything else to compare it to.
 
I used to use Camstudio to record my games when I was playing 5 wow accounts - videos everything on screen, and in good quality. Free too.
 
If you think Fraps is pants then you need to get the newer versions.

Framerate lock = disabled = smooth video recordings at very high quality even at full res mode.

I an play at 60fps with Fraps recording at 1920x1200 in my usual games (L4D2, Portal 2 etc).
 
FRAPS has worked for me, Up until a few weeks back were I couldn't view the clips I had recorded in MW2/Black Ops. Soon fixed that with changing my default player to VLC.


VLC Rocks :D
 
Khaaan! said:
If you think Fraps is pants then you need to get the newer versions.

Framerate lock = disabled = smooth video recordings at very high quality even at full res mode.

I an play at 60fps with Fraps recording at 1920x1200 in my usual games (L4D2, Portal 2 etc).
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I dont get lag, my rig is good:

OCZ ModXStream 700W
Phenom X6 1055T 3.85GHz
MSI GTX 460 Hawk 850/1700/4000
2X2GB DDR3 G.Skill 1800Mhz
M4A88TD-V EVO
.....

I play at 1920x1080 res on a 40" Samsung TV, its not lag, Just the video recording sizes are huge, like over a Gigabyte which is no good for Youtube :eek:
 
toon_mad said:
I dont get lag, my rig is good:

OCZ ModXStream 700W
Phenom X6 1055T 3.85GHz
MSI GTX 460 Hawk 850/1700/4000
2X2GB DDR3 G.Skill 1800Mhz
M4A88TD-V EVO
.....

I play at 1920x1080 res on a 40" Samsung TV, its not lag, Just the video recording sizes are huge, like over a Gigabyte which is no good for Youtube :eek:
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You do know that FRAPS records as a raw .avi file, hence the large files?

You then have to simply encode the footage to a suitable format (MPEG/WMV/Whatever else) and that will drastically reduce the file size.
 
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