Greetings fellow Descenters,
I'm looking for free software that can record gameplay video from Descent 3. Could anyone recommend a free Windows or Linux video capture program that handles fullscreen OpenGL / DirectX?
My own research has been inconclusive - fraps isn't free, XFire doesn't support Descent 3 from what I understand, and no other programs I found specifically listed fullscreen capture as a feature. I'd just buy fraps, but my \"skill\" at D3 isn't worth $30 for now.
Thanks in advance! That there's still an active Descent community around is pretty awesome.
Descent 3 Video Capture
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I don't know of any free utilities, but you can nab a copy of Guncam for only $20 which is a lot better than the $37 wanted for Fraps. IIRC it also has the advantage of performing much better than Fraps at recording video from D3.
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You could give Taski a try.
It is free but doesn't seem to support audio recording, you would have to do that seperately.
I don't know how it compares to fraps or Guncam in preformance, but since those come with free trials you could easily find out.
It is free but doesn't seem to support audio recording, you would have to do that seperately.
I don't know how it compares to fraps or Guncam in preformance, but since those come with free trials you could easily find out.
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This is about the same thing. I was looking for something else and saw this so I just thought I'd throw it up.
This is about the same thing. I was looking for something else and saw this so I just thought I'd throw it up.
Thanks for the suggestions. If I had a TV tuner card, that would be great, but unfortunately I don't have any video inputs. Taksi looks pretty good for pre-1.0 software - it didn't recognize the game in DirectX mode when I played tonight, but I'll try switching D3 to the OpenGL renderer and see if that works. The beta even seems to support audio recording in some form (probably a patch cable from my speaker out to my line in 
). If Taksi fails, $20 for Guncam is reasonable.
). If Taksi fails, $20 for Guncam is reasonable.
recordmydesktop should work if you give it the --full-shots option (documented).
recordmydesktop worked pretty well. It shows D3 running in a window instead of fullscreen, but fixing that is just a matter of cropping the vid. I'll try Taksi with D3 running in OpenGL, but recordmydesktop's looking like a good final choice if I can get the sound recording working. Oh, and the framerate wasn't good with recordmydesktop, but if I do any serious recording I'll disable Compiz and hopefully take care of that problem.