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Is there an application that allows me to record a fullscreen game while I'm playing it so I can later edit the video and put it on YouTube?

I tried Camtasia but the results were not very good; the video was blinking a lot.

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Have you investigated to see if your game has any built-in capture support? – Zoredache Jul 21 '11 at 7:15
@Zoredache the game is warcraft3 and no, I don't think it have anything. – Prix Jul 21 '11 at 23:36

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You can try Fraps.

Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560x1600 with custom frame rates from 1 to 120 frames per second!

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thanks but fraps is terrible I tried it for a 1 minute recording using 29 fps it made 3 files of 3.95gb , I am looking for something like camtasia that can record without blinking on full screens etc. – Prix Jul 21 '11 at 3:00
Why not just reformat the video down to a smaller size? I have used cam studio in the past with success on windows. – a sandwhich Jul 21 '11 at 3:35
You can also just record at a lower resolution instead of reformatting the video file after the fact. Whenever I'm doing streaming like that, I prefer to keep my main drive in tact and stream to an external drive (use to do FireWire400 but have upgraded to USB3 since). – kobaltz Jul 21 '11 at 4:36
Craps is the easiest to use, just get virtualdub and Xvid for compression – Simon Sheehan Jul 21 '11 at 5:08
@a sandwhich because it splitted the video in 3 files of 3.95 instead of 1 file for the 1 minute of recording that is ridiculous to be honest. – Prix Jul 21 '11 at 7:17
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the best software at the moment for pc based game recording is Bandicam get it here it has worked great for my game recording like BF3&GTAIV

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