Recording Games

[sdavis117]

I bought Fraps Full several days ago. Works well, just one issue. No compression. A single 10min match can be upto 10GBs. While this is okay for short matches (if I compress afterwards), I'm worried about a match lasting too long. I only have 40GBs left of open space, and that may not be enough. So I ask you holyist of holy men: Is there a Frap like program with real time compression? I don't care about spending money, and even with Fraps running I easily get max Frames Per Second on most of my games, so some compression in the background shouldn't hurt.

Please help oh saints of modacity.

[Jelly]

Gamecam does real-time compression, AFAIK: http://www.planetgamecam.com/?locid=features

[sdavis117]

Uh, Punkbuster approved. I can finnally record my BF2142 games without fear now.

Thanks Jelly.

[Evil_Monkey]

This is one of the reasons I prefer Gamecam over Fraps, due to the ridiculous file size that Fraps creates.

[Lateksi]

You can also try WeGame, a free recording program. I can't use GameCam because I'm on Vista :/

[Zeph]

I don't care about spending money

Buy a bigger hard drive.

[Cortexian]

Buy a bigger hard drive.
QFT.

Real-Time compression = shitty quality.

[Advancebo]

I like to call Fraps, Faps

lulz, Fraps does fail.

[Jean-Luc]

I like to call Fraps, Faps

lulz, Fraps does fail.

Lies!

I use Fraps almost daily to record cutscenes from games and to piece them together. Yes, the filesize is massive, however, if I record, lets say...30 minutes of video, I'm generally able to get 30GB used. This isn't much for me when I have 100GB free. At this point, regardless of where I am, I simply exit the game, convert the videos to a high quality, but smaller filesize format, delete the uncompressed vids, and continue.

[Cortexian]

Yea, I have a 500GB HDD dedicated to video related stuff so... Fraps wins.