what do you use to record games

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What software do you sue to capture your games to video? i've heard of and used fraps before. anything better? do they all make the videos in a raw format so it takes up hodges of HDD space?
 
VirtualDub has capture settings (I've used it to capture tv etc at least) but it's all Raw.

Lots of video editing software comes with a form of screencapture also, and I think they may be able to capture in different formats, though at low res. Magix can and I've heard Sony Vegas can at least.
 
Howitzer said:
VirtualDub has capture settings (I've used it to capture tv etc at least) but it's all Raw.

Lots of video editing software comes with a form of screencapture also, and I think they may be able to capture in different formats, though at low res. Magix can and I've heard Sony Vegas can at least.
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I know im winging about it being in a raw format bu to get best quality is it better to have in raw format? i could put up with it taking lots of space would just have to amage it more closely.
 
I bought fraps ages ago and still use it.

RAW format takes up huge amounts of space but is absolutely the best, as it gives you the full source to play with. You can always compress down, but you can't go the other way without losing quality.
 
I use fraps to capture if I'm playing back demos, etc. but for realtime capturing as I'm playing I use MSI Afterburner the quality isn't quite as good but it errs on the side of caution and decreases the quality of the capture before it will hit performance whereas fraps will kill performance to keep the quality.
 
I alwasy found fraps to make me lag during games. not sure if i just had it setup wrong. i remember seeing an option to set it to the FPS. is this FPS how many you want it to record at? or how any FPS it can use to capture. so say

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i get 100 fps

then i set fraps to 30 fps, would it drag the game to 30 fps or put game to 70 fps and use the 30 fps for recording

saying that, last time i used fraps i was using I3 with 9600 gt. got an i7 with 660ti now, could have it been hardware that was slwing me down before?
 
http://www.bandicam.com/


I used fraps but would lag in some games and afterburner would always make my videos dark and the option to have the cursor was bugged for me.

Only just started using Bandicam but i have no issues it keeps quality only thing i dont like is the watermark but im tempted to buy it.
 
Depends on what you format you were recording in. Raw/RGB24? If so, you need a lot of hard drive speed to record at that. I don't know what other codec options Fraps has. If you can't load your own codecs and use them, then that's a massive downside. You can choose your own codec in Dxtory which is why it's the best program to use.

Diplexbullet19 said:
http://www.bandicam.com/


I used fraps but would lag in some games and afterburner would always make my videos dark and the option to have the cursor was bugged for me.

Only just started using Bandicam but i have no issues it keeps quality only thing i dont like is the watermark but im tempted to buy it.
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Bandicam is literally the same thing as Dxtory with about half the features.
 
dunn2010 said:
I know im winging about it being in a raw format bu to get best quality is it better to have in raw format? i could put up with it taking lots of space would just have to amage it more closely.
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The thing is in some cases raw format is as much about performance as it is about quality. One issue with recording directly to e.g. xvid is that there will be a performance hit if it has to encode on the fly, especially if you aren't I/O limited (you should be writing to SSD). Although on multicore systems probably not so much of a big deal these days.

The best solution IMO is to record in raw format and then manually compress it afterwards.
 
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