Best way to record a video

[Regs]

Well I know of FRAPS, but without purchasing the full version you can only record 15 seconds.

Any other program I can use?

And what should I use to encode the recording to an AVI?

 

[bob4432]

i would have to say fraps works excellent....bought the full version myself and the quality is superb

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: bob4432
i would have to say fraps works excellent....bought the full version myself and the quality is superb

FRAPS is awesome. "Buy" the full version though, its recording capabilites are superior compared to the free one. :thumbsup:

 

[sciortinojs]

Buy the full version of FRAPS. Once you pay for it you get everyupdate free. It is very well worth the money

 

[bob4432]

plus it works good for true fps benchmarking during your actual gameplay

 

[Regs]

Cool, I did it. Now I got a... 3.9 GB movie in my fraps folder. Anyway to compress that into a avi or mpeg?

 

[bob4432]

dr divx? windows media encoder 9? works good and is free

 

[stnicralisk]

Originally posted by: bob4432
plus it works good for true fps benchmarking during your actual gameplay

But it takes away some system resources and costs some FPS. Its really only worth it for the video capabilities and for the neat graphing capabilities. Most games can display FPS.

 

[Concillian]

displaying FPS is virtually worthless compared to what you can do in FRAPS.

With FRAPS ability to log and output FPS over time, you can see how changing in-game settings affects your actual performance. Also changing hardware configuration to determine how upgrades will help (like lowering CPU speed 200 MHz at a time and graphig out the results in excel to see how much a processor upgrade might help)

Yes, I'm a data whore and like to know exactly how settings change my FPS. I also like to only make purchasing decisions with data so I know exactly what my money is being spent on... how much performance my doallrs are buying me, if you will. It's some interesting analysis that you don't normally get from the basic review sites.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: bob4432
dr divx? windows media encoder 9? works good and is free

Got it!

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: stnicralisk

Originally posted by: bob4432
plus it works good for true fps benchmarking during your actual gameplay

But it takes away some system resources and costs some FPS. Its really only worth it for the video capabilities and for the neat graphing capabilities. Most games can display FPS.

Well...recording a video is a different story. All that hard drive writing cripples the game performance while recording a video. Either that...or it could be the CPU. You think a X2 dual core will help in this matter or do you think i have to wait for those new RAMDEC hard drives to come out in a year? lol.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: stnicralisk

Originally posted by: bob4432
plus it works good for true fps benchmarking during your actual gameplay

But it takes away some system resources and costs some FPS. Its really only worth it for the video capabilities and for the neat graphing capabilities. Most games can display FPS.

it is nice to see after a game that you played for 20+mins what the average fps was. if i lose a bit, so be it but i doubt in a serious firefight in bf2 you will be looking up at the fps meter from either fraps or the one in the game.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Regs

Originally posted by: stnicralisk

Originally posted by: bob4432
plus it works good for true fps benchmarking during your actual gameplay

But it takes away some system resources and costs some FPS. Its really only worth it for the video capabilities and for the neat graphing capabilities. Most games can display FPS.

Well...recording a video is a different story. All that hard drive writing cripples the game performance while recording a video. Either that...or it could be the CPU. You think a X2 dual core will help in this matter or do you think i have to wait for those new RAMDEC hard drives to come out in a year? lol.

what video card do you have? just give it a try and see what happens