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Descent 3 Video Capture
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:41 pm
by Bonzer
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:58 pm
by Krom
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.
http://www.growlersoftware.com/
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:56 am
by Ryujin
Ferno, what do you use?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:15 am
by Tebo
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:51 pm
by Duper
Post from a year ago
This is about the same thing. I was looking for something else and saw this so I just thought I'd throw it up.
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:58 pm
by Bonzer
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:33 pm
by AceCombat
FRAPS you pay for now?
well frap
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:08 am
by The Lion
recordmydesktop should work if you give it the --full-shots option (documented).
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:30 pm
by Bonzer
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.