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    Screen Recorder

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by hiarieshi, May 20, 2011.

  1. hiarieshi

    hiarieshi Notebook Evangelist

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    I was wondering what you guys think is the best screen recorder that teh M11x will be able to handle. For example recording League of Legends replays.

    From experience, FRAPS slows framerate too much. WeGame is decent, bad quality but very little space taken up and I can play the game.

    Any recommendations? I plan on doing some commentaries as well.
     
    hiarieshi, May 20, 2011
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    froogle Notebook Evangelist

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  3. Xsonic

    Xsonic Notebook Consultant

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    Hook it to an tv/monitor and record it using a dvr or just lower the resolution, take out AA/vsync. I tried many screen recorders, and FRAPS is probably the best choice.
     
    Xsonic, May 20, 2011
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    FRAPs is definatly the best. If you record no sound as well has 'half-size' at 29.97 FPS you wont see much performance decrease....

    Any third party record program will hit your performance. The only thing I can think of is if the game has a built in frame-by-frame capture like in Crysis or Counter-Strike Source.
     
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  5. hiarieshi

    hiarieshi Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks guys, Fraps takes up a huge amount of space D:

    Also when I set the recording to 60fps, it runs fine then after a 1 minute or so it begins to drop to 1-2fps; is it something with the M11x or just a bug i nthe program? I'm testing it out with LoL
     
    hiarieshi, May 21, 2011
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  6. MasivB

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    Fraps releases new updates each week. Its actually really really buggy so I wouldnt be surprised.
     
    MasivB, May 22, 2011
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    damon45 Newbie

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    If you hasn't found a satisfied program to help you record video of screen with high quality, you can try this one.

    1. It can help you record in a long time period, so you can explain the way to use the product as detailed as possible, making user better understand.

    2.The program can record external voice, and help sync the audio with video, which makes the recordings more vivid.

    3.It helps you save the recorded video to standard video format file, so you needn’t to use another video converter to edit the video.
     
    damon45, Sep 29, 2011
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  8. m3talfingers

    m3talfingers Notebook Enthusiast

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    OP, there is a program called LOL recorder that doesnt seem to drop frames at all.
     
    m3talfingers, Sep 29, 2011
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