Recording in game

[CrazyCracka420]

So what is a good way to record in game?  I'd like to record my travels in game and try to clean it up for the viewing audience.

I know about fraps, but my main issue is that I want to record in a decent quality, but not have it kill my FPS in game.  I'm running a very good computer so I don't think that will be an issue.  But I know when I fucked around with fraps in the past it killed my "skill" in game because it severely lagged me in game.

Also any recommendation for editing software?

[Carac]

If you have a good computer, Fraps shouldn't show a difference in FPS. If it does, it won't be noticable

[Digglez]

when you are recording, have it save to a drive that is NOT your boot drive.  Virtual memory operates off your boot drive and doesnt like it when a competiting program starts writing massive data that it has to share speed with.

Of course, not using virtual memory and having a crap load of ram would help, and also having a super fast solid state HD would help.  Just easier to save to another drive.

[CrazyCracka420]

Thanks digglez, I'm going to give saving to another drive a try.  moved over the weekend so don't have internet until tomorrow (at home) so I finally gave myself an excuse to re-install Windows on my Solid State HD.  I'll just save Fraps to my old school sata drive.

[Slamz]

Actually if you have an SSD, saving FRAPS to there is probably your best bet even if it's already running everything else.  You're not going to beat that speed.

Assuming you have room, anyway.  FRAPS will go through hard drive space like mad.

Set your FRAPS video capture to full-size, 30 fps.  You might even try 20 FPS or something -- I'm not sure what most videos end up being but you won't notice the difference between 60 and 30, at least.  Going half-size will save you a lot of drive space but you won't get high quality full screen video out of that.

[CrazyCracka420]

yeah I only have 120gb SSD, but I have a 500 GB Sata drive...maybe I can save to SSD and then transfer to backup after.  I'm thinking running the game off the SSD and saving fraps to the SATA will work ok. 

I just know trying to play before and having fraps run at the same time killed my FPS and made it impossible to have any timing on my horse (which defeated the purpose of recording if I can't show what I normally do).

[dodnet]

Depending on how long and at what resolution you want to record, you need a lot of disk space. When I record with the trial version of Fraps (limit of 1 or 2 minutes) on 1920x1680, the file already take up a few GB. 120 GB might be not enough...

[CrazyCracka420]

Yeah I agree, especially after I have 20-40 used up for programs.  I'm planning on recording to my 2nd drive.