InGame recording?

[Dude_Doc]

Are there any other programs, except FRAPS, that can record gameplay from, eh, games?

[GUNWOUNDS]

dont these types of programs cause alot of lagg tho?

[Digital Guerrilla]

FRAPS works best with video games that have 3D environments. War and RTS games usually have static backgrounds and move sprites so they do not use buffering or the Flip function. FRAPS  works best with games that write large amounts of data to the screen.

[Dude_Doc]

Okay, I'll see what I can do.

[Cyborg]

FRAPS works best with video games that have 3D environments. War and RTS games usually have static backgrounds and move sprites so they do not use buffering or the Flip function. FRAPS  works best with games that write large amounts of data to the screen.

I'm afraid you're wrong...

2D games do use backbuffers, and they do flip them just as often as 3D games do.

It's just the methods of drawing involves one less dimension...

[Digital Guerrilla]

Is that not only single buffering and not page flipping, where there is a front and back buffer?

[Cyborg]

If you want to know, the drawing works like this:

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                          (graphics that does not need to be rendered each frame. Buttons, etc.)

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backsurf <- per-frame-graphic-blits(animations, etc) <- mainsurf(more static like surface which contains non-realtime-rendered-graphics)

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flip(the memory pointers of the two or three backsurfs change so that the graphics card sends the newly drawn graphics to the monitor. The old backbuffer becomes the object of blitting)

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[Digital Guerrilla]

??? I think we have a misunderstanding about what we have said to each other and each other's understanding of computer animation.

[Cyborg]

Ok, what did you mean by it then?

[Digital Guerrilla]

Never mind it is not really important.

[Cyborg]

You're right :P

[IxianMace]

So is FRAPS the only known program that has the capability to record gameplay?