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free pc game recorder's?
« on: October 02, 2013, 10:30:51 AM »
so far evrey free recorder ive used has had a screen distortion or time limit forcing you to buy the full product


Is there any really any fully "free" recorders out there?








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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2013, 11:00:55 AM »
None that I'm aware of that's actually fairly good I'm afraid. I've looked for ages and compared different ones, but found none free that pleased me

DXtory is my favorite out of the paid ones, fraps is ok but I don't like their codec and it's pretty intensive on performance (meaning your fps are often halved).
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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2013, 05:37:49 PM »
ah ok thanks
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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2013, 04:45:04 AM »
Seriously? Just use Fraps

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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2013, 09:14:16 AM »
Seriously? Just use Fraps

you only get about 1 minute of recording time...impossible to commentary.
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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2013, 09:45:28 AM »
Seriously? Just use Fraps
I honestly don't like fraps because it's a major resource hog and literally cuts my fps in half.
That's with 3 hard drives, i7 CPU, a 7970 GPU and 16GB of RAM.
The codec can be quite annoying to work with in 64bit as well, doing some video editing and transcoding kills the quality.

Dxtory is much lighter and works much better imho. The free trial puts a large watermark however in the middle of everything.
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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2013, 10:07:38 AM »
I use LiveStream Procaster if anything.
It is for free, and I would suggest setting up a regular LS account, not a new.livestream account.
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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2013, 12:32:56 PM »
Seriously? Just use Fraps
I honestly don't like fraps because it's a major resource hog and literally cuts my fps in half.
That's with 3 hard drives, i7 CPU, a 7970 GPU and 16GB of RAM.
The codec can be quite annoying to work with in 64bit as well, doing some video editing and transcoding kills the quality.

Dxtory is much lighter and works much better imho. The free trial puts a large watermark however in the middle of everything.
is it a big watermark?

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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2013, 12:40:52 PM »
is it a big watermark?
Looks something like this (image from google):
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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2013, 06:07:44 PM »
Seriously? Just use Fraps

you only get about 1 minute of recording time...impossible to commentary.

It's 30 seconds actually, [REMOVED]. When recording videos, I can sync my microphone with the video so I can record as I play. It's pretty sweet, but the file sizes are massive
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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2013, 09:17:15 PM »
*snip*
I can sync my microphone with the video so I can record as I play. It's pretty sweet, but the file sizes are massive
Not to backseat moderate or anything, but I might mention that I'm fairly sure it's against the forum rules to suggest bad (and especially illegal) behavior.

Anyhow, dxtory does pretty much the same thing. It allows me as well to set up several recording sources for audio and thus records several audio streams.
For example I can record the my own mic, the in-game sound and for example a skype conversation or something at the same time and it's all outputted as individual file streams, so in the video editing software I can just edit them individually. For example I can lower the game sound at a only a single point whilst keeping the other sounds as they are or I can mute my friend who's screaming something whilst I'm trying to say something else.

It also has options for using different codecs and encoders (including 3rd party ones!) with varying compression to either have huge uncompressed files with excellent quality or much smaller files compressed ones with almost as good quality.

You can choose also between different file formats depending on the coded used. For example you can output as .avi or .mp4 or .wmv or whatever else you like.

As for free ones, once again I don't know any I can recommend. I've heard camstudio should be decent and I suppose hypercam (if it's still around) isn't too bad.

The free version of Hypercam I know has a small watermark up in the corner, but it's not too bad and you can kinda bypass it without breaking the law by simply editing cropping it out when editing the video, although you will lose a slight bit or the corner in the recorded video by doing this.

EDIT: It seems like Hypercam 2 has now been made free and the watermark has been removed as version 3 has been released (which is however offered as a free demo with the aforementioned watermark).
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Re: free pc game recorder's?
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Dang. Didn't know syncing a computer mic was illegal. What kind of a world is this?


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Re: free pc game recorder's?
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Dang. Didn't know syncing a computer mic was illegal. What kind of a world is this?
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Re: free pc game recorder's?
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Re: free pc game recorder's?
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2013, 05:19:12 PM »
is it a big watermark?
Looks something like this (image from google):

id be fine with that...

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