Quote Originally Posted by Knytestorme View Post
Seems MSI Afterburner now has video recording built into it that provides better loseless quality recording than FRAPS and removes the 4Gb file size limit, it will just record until you stop in one continuous file. This is definitely the biggest QoL reason to move from FRAPS for recording gameplay and will give it a test tonight.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2173195
Sounds like a nice free alternative but, there seem to be a few trade offs.

1. That 4GB limit, as the poster first mentions, is nice because you're able to find shit after you've recorded
hours of footage. My uncompressed FRAPS files are about 35 - 45 seconds per the 4GB limit and with MSI-A the
poster had 98 seconds at 15GB for uncompressed which is ridiculous. That would be like 90GB+ for 10 minutes
of footage -- Good luck opening a 90GB file in a video editing program. Might as well just drag, drop, and walk
away unless you've got a great system.

2. He has a RAID0 setup for video recording. I don't have a RAID setup for my recording drive and FRAPS, in
any mode, works just fine for me. I'm not sure where he's running into issues with FRAPS.

3. He doesn't mention anything about FRAPS's DWM desktop capture which is required if you want to
capture more than just the game window itself. I'd have to look at MSI-A to see if it's there.

All in all, sounds good and I'm willing to give it a try but, if it can't capture the desktop then I'll just stick with
FRAPS... it's done me no harm.

Last but not least, I'm really not sure this belongs in the movies section.