Better than Fraps?

[LaBlallin]

So, I've been using fraps for my video screen-capture for a long time, and now it seems like it's just a pain to use. Any alternatives you can suggest like camtasia?

 

[ColeusRattus]

Most likely that it eats resources like a fat kid eats cake when you hit "record".

That's not a problem with fraps, but with video recording being quite a intensive computing operation.

The only way to caputure video without using ressources would be to hook up a recorder of some sorts between your PC and your monitor.

 

[oplinger]

I like Fraps for basic rapid-fire screens and frame-rate monitoring. It seems light and no-fuss. What exactly don't you like about it, out of curiosity?

Most likely that it eats resources like a fat kid eats cake when you hit "record".

On Topic: Can't really help you there, since I only use FRAPS. Really wish there was a better alternative... or a setting that made one really long video... and have it turn audio way down when recording... damn, FRAPS has a lot of problems.

It doesn't eat resources for me >.> ..However hard drives limit the frame rate you can record at. ..and you can make one really long video, FRAPS just has a 4 gig limit, so it immediately starts recording a new file when you hit 4 gigs. I kinda like it like that.

OT: FRAPS is the best out there for recording games, I'm also curious how it's a pain to use though.

 

[Meestor Pickle]

I use wegame only problem ive had with it so far is sometimes there is sound delay

 

[QuadFish]

Demo recording and Source recorder filming with DivX is the way to go if you're playing a Valve game.

 

[oplinger]

Interesting. I've never needed to record gameplay before so wouldn't know either way. Could this be inherent to the process of direct video recording as ColeusRattus states, or should it really be less resource intensive?

I really don't know. I think it has to do with the read/write speeds of your hard drive more than anything else.

Perhaps you could try writing the video to a secondary drive. That is, one that is different to the disk with the running game's files. Or a small cheap, SS disk? Might be cheaper and simpler than a dedicated recording device.

3.9GB per file, at most, 6 minutes per file, and I do marathon sessions of about 40 minutes. Wouldn't work too well for me. Besides, the cheap SSDs have crap write speeds.

It's because FRAPS has like no limit on bitrate, it helps for editing, as the files are hardly compressed at all, so you can splice them together and compress them to whatever you need. It's actually good for you, not bad for you

Also FRAPS doing it in 4 gig chunks is also helpful, if something goes wrong..you're not going to lose 40 minutes of video..

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Wegame is alright, I dunno if it's worth recommending or not, though.

 

[Aphex Demon]

I <3 Fraps. Constantly telling me my FPS too which pwns.