[ZoomZoom]

Can anyone tell me a good game recorder to record GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas with a good quality??

Except Fraps and CamStudio

[nightwalker83]

Why not Fraps or CS? I use Fraps and it is quite good.

[ZoomZoom]

Its good but there is no free version of it.

[oksa8]

BandiCam.

It's free, pretty easy to use and also allows to convert to better format while recording. Though it was small watermark if you don't buy full version, but I don't think it's such a big deal.

[ZoomZoom]

QUOTE (oksa8 @ Saturday, Jul 28 2012, 08:54)

BandiCam. It's free, pretty easy to use and also allows to convert to better format while recording. Though it was small watermark if you don't buy full version, but I don't think it's such a big deal.

I will try downloading it.

[gabrielkipp77]

BandiCam is excellent.

[Wolf68k]

FRAPS is s**t. I still see people to this day on YouTube posting their specs, game settings and framerates and many of them mention that they have to lower their settings because FRAPS cuts their normal fps down a good deal.
About the only thing FRAPS is good for is it you wanted to do benchmarking with games.

Xfire is a gamer's version of MSN and AIM. It's a chat program for gamers. It can also let you launch your games for you, join friends who are online playing a game that you have as well, plus it can take screen shots and record game play video and with no framerate lose.

MSI Afterburner 2.2.2 meant to monitor and record your graphics card performance, as well as overclock it. The 2.2.2 version can also record video, again with no framerate lose. Plus it can take screenshots, but it's been able to do that for a while. It can also just like FRAPS display your FPS while in game, along with others things such as GPU temp, fan speed and everything else it's able to monitor.

No these two are not your conventional video recorders but they are free and do a better job than FRAPS.

[nightwalker83]

QUOTE (Wolf68k @ Sunday, Jul 29 2012, 01:15)

FRAPS is s**t. I still see people to this day on YouTube posting their specs, game settings and framerates and many of them mention that they have to lower their settings because FRAPS cuts their normal fps down a good deal.

You realize that FRAPS records uncompressed video/audio thus the system has to keep moving resources to until it has finished recording. Yes, those other programs you mentioned record compressed video/audio. However, the quality is reduced.

[Wolf68k]

Actually Xfire is uncompressed as well. It uses it's own codec just like FRAPS does but it's uncompressed. Back when Xfire made the video recorder a final version (for a while it was beta) I compared it to FRAPS which I had at the time and the quality was the same. I do have a video on YT that I made with Xfire capturing it, however I lowered the quality on purpose because I didn't feel like waiting for days while a 1GB file uploaded. I do still have the original capture files (not sure why) and with only 3:47 mins:secs of captured video it's 2.2GB. Another piece that I also captured and used is 28secs long and 274MB.

MSI AB has an uncompressed option. At this time I haven't tried it. I will try to make a short one later with the uncompressed option. However I will say that even with the default setting of MJPG compression it still looked great. While I could upload the video the YT to show you the problem there is, who is to say that YT won't screw that up.
As for the quality the default setting is 85% but I use 100%.
The videos I captured, while I did have it on the default MJPG compression and half frame, the quality at 85% (a test capture) and at 100% (for some real captures) there is little difference. You can still perfectly make out the player names in the squad list in BF3 and that's pretty small to begin with even at full screen. You can even make out and tell the player name over the squad member's head plus what the kit is.

Frame size on all of them is usually default to half size.
Capture frame rate on all is also usually default of 30fps.