Question: How can we record a video of our games?

Well now,

Basically, I am entirely aware that there's no replay option at the moment e.t.c. All the same I have indeed seen a few videos of gameplay circulating around youtube. I am interested in the possibility of recording some of the games I play. I've gone through some very interesting matches up to now (wins and losses), and as far as my future matches are concerned, I would like to watch them again or publish them on youtube or something.

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demigod

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You could use something such as fraps. If you actually do use that program, you will need a hefty amount of hard drive space available depending on how long you record and your PC should be fairly powerful as it's a major tank on your system. Luckily, the frame rate that you're playing at is not what the video will look like. You may have a very smooth video but choppy game while actually playing.

My heads a little jumbled right now... Hopefully that helped somewhat

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This game is cpu intensive. People are already low to negative sim speed without fraps. If you have a high end quadcore and good secondary harddrive(raptor) then maybe use fraps with this game. Also set the game to only use 2 or 3 cores and fraps to use 1 or 2 cores. I would be mad playing against someone trying to run fraps causing slowmo game.

Edit: Easiest way is to wait for replay feature and then record the replay.

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When I record I can mantain a 30fps.

Just go to windowed mode and dont maximise the window (or restore down it) and your fps should shoot up by about +5. But if you cant mantain a fps of 25+ please dont do it, it really ruins the games and as mentioned above its probably best to wait for the replays feature.

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Fraps.

My rig is decent but not top of the line anymore. Some AMD 3,4 dual core and a Geforce8800GTS or something. I still get 30 fps videos in high resolution (1280x720) with full details. I haven't noticed the game slowing down too much, although I get a very noticably jerk when fraps starts another 4gb video file.

If you play in even higher resolutions then tell fraps to record in half resolution ... otherwise your system is very likely to stutter, which will reflect negatively on your video AND your game.

And you need LOTS of hd space since fraps doesn't compress videos ... raw footage only.

An alternative to fraps is GameCam, although I'm told that the demo version doesn't allow higher resolutions. Fraps limits video length to 30 seconds.

Can't say which one is better if you decide to buy one or the other version since i'm happy enough with my fraps.

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Maintaing 30fps while recording is still bad. Having higher fps doesn't mean your sim speed will also be high.

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