k3v Man Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 I was wondering what you guys think the best free or purchasable software for screencapture and recording. Please tell me if it is for or how much it would cost.thanks also i would prefer not to have one that takes up to much memory so the game wont lag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveme4whoiam Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 FRAPS (www.fraps.com I believe) is a decent utility. It runs in the background and then starts recording or image capturing when you press a button. It creates pretty large files though, and I'm not sure how much lag it creates. Some guys in my BF2 clan use it to make movies in the game, so it can't be that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k3v Man Posted March 21, 2006 Author Share Posted March 21, 2006 Ya i found a good program called autoscreenrecorder free but it lags alot loli was just looking at fraps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savin877 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I was wondering what you guys think the best free or purchasable software for screencapture and recording. Please tell me if it is for or how much it would cost.thanks also i would prefer not to have one that takes up to much memory so the game wont lag Im pretty sure Fraps works well but youre going to have to have a decent system in order to run both it and Oblivion at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krotukk Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 FRAPS is probably your best bet. The setup to use, however, can get tricky.Because it's a record-as-you-go program, it is constantly writing to your hard drive while in record mode.Since your game needs as much access to read/write to your hard drive as it can get in order to run at maximum performance, it's best to use a different hard drive than the one your game is installed on to record to. Also, FRAPS likes to make its videos quite a nice size. (For example: a 46 second capture at the settings I used to use (30 FPS, half-size, I believe) is a nice 162MB file. That's insane. The Oblivion countdown videos were ~30 seconds long and at max were 20MB.)It's also extremely easy to use.Set a hotkey in fraps to start/stop recording video, make sure that key is not bound to any action in the game you want to record gameplay in, and you're pretty much all set.Just make sure you've got a decent-sized hard drive when you use it, and that you don't leave it recording when you step out for a minute to take a break but leave the game running. Then you'll just fill up loads of hard drive space with empty action.And, as stated above, running Oblivion on any kind of decent graphic settings and running FRAPS at the same time will probably require a pretty nice system. I haven't been able to play Oblivion yet to find out, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 If you use FRAPS you'll need a compression program. I don't know of any free ones (although I haven't really looked). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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