29 replies to this topic

[Syzygy]

Ok, so I'm kinda into making video etc. But all the cams I've tried so far give me really low frame rates, or high frame rates with crap quality.

Here are some I've tried:
- ZD Soft Game Recorder (Best I've used at the moment, good quality) www.zdsoft.com/game-recorder/
- Hypercam 1/2 www.hyperionics.com/hc/
- Fraps (Worst everrr) www.fraps.com/download.php
- GameCam www.planetgamecam.com/
- xFire Game Cam www.xfire.com/

All seem to drop my FPS to 20ish.

So what do you think is the best Screen Recorder?

Edited by StickwithXP, 18 October 2008 - 03:15 PM.

[lareeth]

Xfire and Fraps work the best for me, don't ever get any frame drop

[Villain]

screen FPS is always going to drop. your not only doing something, but recording it, you know how much memory that takes up?
Techsmith Camtasia here, BTW.

[RickSOLET]

Fraps

[Syzygy]

screen FPS is always going to drop. your not only doing something, but recording it, you know how much memory that takes up?
Techsmith Camtasia here, BTW.

ZD Soft only uses about 30MB of RAM.

Xfire and Fraps work the best for me, don't ever get any frame drop

Look at your Computer specs, I wouldn't get frame drops either if I had that beast.

Edited by StickwithXP, 19 October 2008 - 01:19 AM.

[coldemone]

try a webcam, cellphone, video recorder with a tripod and no drop!

i tried fraps and it's way down.
I use hypercam for recording youtube videos before, but sometimes dont work with sounds.

never tried others.

i think there's some firmwares able to record something you do in the monitor (not in the cpu). I have one but nevr tried it.

Edited by Corn Muffin, 19 October 2008 - 03:59 AM.

[lareeth]

If your graphics card has a composite out then you could hook it up to an external DVD recorder then rip the DVD when you have finished whatever you are recording

[eskieman]

Snagit 9 by Techsmith works the best if u have a good computer. (basically 200-500 mb of ram to spare while playing) very good quality too.

[AMIRZ]

As U said ZD Soft

[timbertide]

Fraps is quite good but it decreases the FPS by about 10 when recording a game.

[Syzygy]

Fraps is quite good but it decreases the FPS by about 10 when recording a game.

Mine drops about 20-30ish, even on lowest quality settings. Not the best corder out there for sure.

[Veke]

So you say that ZD soft recorder is good. Well, I downloaded and installed the free trial from the official site, and AVG reports a Trojan in the main executable. Is this a false positive?

[Secured Tim]

I have used Fraps only, and it's real good.

[FalseAgent]

I have used Fraps only, and it's real good.

Fraps best.

However, I was only able to record at 60fps only after moving my Nvidia driver to a older (MUCH older) version, so...

Edited by comedy_guy, 24 January 2009 - 02:32 PM.

[Eye Pie Rate]

Best screen recorder = BSR recorder
Best Game recorder = Fraps

[utak]

have you tried camstudio

http://camstudio.org/

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[Merforga]

Fraps is the best by far. The only that comes close to it is Xfire, but even that is pretty far behind.

[henrydtv]

for great screen recording check out camstudio (free!)

[Joost Zaal]

I know it's been a while, but I'll bump the topic, cause if I google search, this is the first hit.

I'd like people to know, the best game recorder out there, BY FAR. Is playclaw. It actually handles multicores really well and gives me only a minimal FPS drop when gaming. And it is very customizeable.

Note for pirates, it hasn't been cracked yet, at least, only the old version, which sucks. Just buy it, 30 dollars isn't going to skin you alive ;p