Best way to record.

[c4Menace]

Whats the best way to record a game replay to video?

Some guy emissary rushed me talking smack saying I was gunna get owned. so I told him I accidentally sold my MCV and that it was a GG. Jokes on him.. I ran to my refinery outpost to the north [anytown America] and built up about 20 tanks and 20 rocket troops knowing that he spent all his money building turrets in my base. I then destroyed his old base (mcv and everything!)

Now all he has left is what he built to destroy me.. well he managed to rebuild his mcv and attempted to use laser venoms on me.. he never got to build one because he spent all his funds and by then I used my now larger army to knock out his power. He called me some bad names and then left the game...

I want to show everybody how much I owned him, even after 1.4 s resealed.

VIA youtube :)

[spyVspy]

I haven't tried it yet, but you could grab a demo of FRAPS or GameCam.

[Deesies]

I only know of fraps but it saves things in their raw format so a few minutes could take a gig or so in hard drive space.

If you don't have the hard drive space and a compressor (I use virtual dub and divx codec) then you're probably better of using something else.

I'm not sure if gamecam is any better as far as filesize goes :)

[M2M]

I only know of fraps but it saves things in their raw format so a few minutes could take a gig or so in hard drive space.

If you don't have the hard drive space and a compressor (I use virtual dub and divx codec) then you're probably better of using something else.

I'm not sure if gamecam is any better as far as filesize goes :)

the thing is, you can't compress a complete gamescreen with the current processors (maybe a quad core), while the game is running, so the trick is to store the video with as little compression as posible, and compress the mess later on.

and yeah it will take a couple of gigabytes of your HD, but who cares nowadays

remember to set your resolution to something like 800*600, else the video will be too big for your comp to handle

[mrchris]

And setting FRAPS to record half screen size as well.