My_Inner_Fred Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Whats the best Free or not free in-game recording software? (Not Fraps) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iKillSteal Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 xfire has a built-in video capture tool now, as well as a video streaming tool. Far from being the best there is but it's pretty flexible. You can record at 25, 30, 60 or 100 fps bot full and half-size with the option of capturing your cursor which is nice for things like MMO's. Haven't messed with it too much but the last time I used it, it worked decently but that was back in it's beta stage. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
My_Inner_Fred Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Does come out in good quality? and do u know any other programs? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iKillSteal Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 I'll record a little video in just a second and I'll let you know. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
My_Inner_Fred Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 I'll record a little video in just a second and I'll let you know. Thx ^^ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iKillSteal Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Just did a little bombing run in 2k4 and it really hits the framerate although that's mostly because of my CPU being a steaming pile at stock. Using the defaults on xfire(30fps, half-size) output file was 889mb @ 840*524 2:04. Video quality was excellent. Did not record with sound on(Forgot to enable) so I'm not sure how much more negatively that would have affected my performance. Took me down from >90fps constant down to around 30fps. Included image has some more misc. info regarding the video. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
My_Inner_Fred Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 I heard you could use fraps to record the video at a certain framerate like 120fps. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iKillSteal Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Pretty sure you can(been a while since I last used fraps) but I doubt there would be much difference between 120fps and 100fps(barring output file size), for example. Feel free to prove wrong but I can't think of a reason to record over 60fps for most gamers plus the unavoidable compression that you will have to do will most likely negate any benefit of that extra framerate. Not to mention that it will be, I assume, considerably more resource intensive to record at 120fps. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
My_Inner_Fred Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Just did a little bombing run in 2k4 and it really hits the framerate although that's mostly because of my CPU being a steaming pile at stock. Using the defaults on xfire(30fps, half-size) output file was 889mb @ 840*524 2:04. Video quality was excellent. Did not record with sound on(Forgot to enable) so I'm not sure how much more negatively that would have affected my performance. Took me down from >90fps constant down to around 30fps. Included image has some more misc. info regarding the video. y did it take 90fps down to 30? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkrow21 Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 y did it take 90fps down to 30? Because recording the video and running the game is too much for his processor which is a steaming pile of crap. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
My_Inner_Fred Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 oh my bad didnt see his sig lol.. must suck having such a slow CPU.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iKillSteal Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 (edited) Video recording is very system intensive. Your CPU is considerably better than mine so you shouldn't see that big of a hit but it is still going to hurt. A lot. Edit: Meh, I get by. Still haven't really met any game that my system can't respectably play at 1680*1050 with decent, or better, settings. Except Crysis but that's always the exception. Edited November 16, 2008 by iKillSteal Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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