Screen recorder

[TJPrime]

I have been watching many youtube videos of KSP, and I've always wanted to make youtube videos myself. However, I can't download a capturing device that will allow me to record good videos for free without it being blocked by mcaffee security or giving me 100 ads a second. Having one built into KSP would be mazing for me and probably some other people.

I can understand that if the devs don't want to put it in, but if someone could at least give me a screen capture device I could use or a mod (if there is one)? thanks

[One-Way Films]

Hmm... It is a good idea. But I doubt the Devs will work on it until the game has reached version 1.00 . For screen capture your best bet is to research Fraps, Bandicam or whatever and choose one to buy. But, MSI have a software called MSI afterburner and it has a built in Screen Recorder thats' pretty good too! So good, that I'm putting off buying fraps until I can try it out when I finish my Gaming build. Oh, and it's free It might only work on MSI parts though.

Edited January 28, 2014 by One-Way Films

[Capt Snuggler]

if you have an Nvidia card i think i heard a video capture thingy being bundled/built in with the "game ready driver" or "gforce experience" or something like that. or take a look at this

http://www.bandicam.com/downloads/

http://www.geforce.co.uk/geforce-experience/shadowplay

[TJPrime]

I've tried what you have suggested, but Mcafee won't let me use them. It always asks me 'Do you want this program to make changes to your computer?" and seeing how the last time I managed to get something to work, it actually installed another internet security thing. Which was really annoying.

[KvickFlygarn87]

Try using OBS, and if you want to edit, save to file and don't stream.

[MK3424]

My guess would be to use Dxtory: low cpu impact (if using good codec), multifunctional( you can use more than 1 mic.),you can also use it to stream videos.

[guest91111]

if you have an Nvidia card i think i heard a video capture thingy being bundled/built in with the "game ready driver" or "gforce experience" or something like that. or take a look at this

You have to have a rather modern Graphics card (GTX 600+) To run this, and most people, unless they recently bought a Gaming-Rig, won't have such a GPU

If you really want to have a good recording software for a low price, I recommend Fraps. It's simple, it's smooth, it's nice. But watch out for tremendous files. Action could be a nice option as well.

I don't recommend DxTory, if you don't really understand video codec, sound codec, kbps, or any of that kind of things. It has options, but some things have too many options, and DxTory is really one of them.

Don't try BandiCam, it's one of the worst recording software on the market and not worth its money. Even though the demo is alright, 10 minutes of recording, I don't recommend it.

You can check my videos to see how Fraps reacts to KSP (I recently downloaded new drivers for my GPU, but haven't been able to make videos with this new driver).

I don't know anyone for DxTory, but for Minecraft videos Yogscast Rythian uses DxTory.

Edited January 29, 2014 by guest91111

[tetryds]

You have to have a rather modern Graphics card (GTX 600+) To run this, and most people, unless they recently bought a Gaming-Rig, won't have such a GPU

Yes, but if you do there is no non-extra-hardware recorder that can get near it.

I tried lots of them, Fraps, Dxtory, bandicam etc, and even being beta, there is no equal to shadowplay.

I have a GTX 660 Ti SC that runs BF4 on ultra at 45fps 64 players under paracel storm storm (lol).

With shadowplay enabled the framerate doesn't even gets touched here.

Also, you can set bitrate and fps now, and 5min video at my current settings get no higher than 1.4GB.

I remember using FRAPS and i got 3GB video with 30 sec 30fps half-res video.

I'm sort of a fanboy, yes, but this feature is very cool.

The second one I recommend is Dxtory, since its the lightest, then bandicam.

I don't recommend Fraps, it WAS good compared to the others but now it's extremelly bad optimized and HDD memory hungry.

I don't think that KSP should focus on such a feature, there are third party software that can do this very well already.

And the game is very heavy on processing, most people wouldn't make use of it.

Edited January 29, 2014 by tetryds

[Superfluous J]

Unrelated to screen recording (I highly recommend FRAPS. Bandicam doesn't work well on my fairly awesome gaming computer but FRAPS works great) I would like to suggest you find a different virus scanner. In the words of John McAfee (who wrote the software originally but then sold it, and his name to Intel a while ago) on the upcoming name change of the software from McAfee to Intel Security:

I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet... My elation at Intel’s decision is beyond words.

[TJPrime]

Ok, I've tried every single one suggested so far. Mcafee doesn't like any of them. It comes up with the same message every time, asking for an administrators password.

I would like to suggest you find a different virus scanner.

I think my parents are looking for new internet security and virus scanner software - mcafee has been bugging all of us, as well as windows 7 (I mean, how in the world does a faster computer mean that there's an error?). I think a new computer is needed - let alone anti-virus software. Shame we can't afford one yet...

[vexx32]

If you can tolerate Windows 8, it's not too expensive really to upgrade and is a lot less trouble than Win7 in my opinion (though I had a weird issue with win8 that meant I had to reinstall it again for some weird reason). Only major issue for a lot of people is the lack of a Start Menu, but you can get one set up and running exactly how you want in no time with a program like Classic Shell.

As for antivirus, I'd be recommending something like Avira, but if you plan on getting a paid version of antivirus, Avast! is one of the better ones (take care with KSP, though, sometimes Avast takes issue with it for some weird reason).

[technicalfool]

and is a lot less trouble than Win7 in my opinion

At least you added the "IMO" qualifier, otherwise I'd have shouted at you.

I'm wondering if the reason McAfee is squealing about needing admin access is because to capture video with software, the software has to dig its tentacles pretty deep into the graphics subsystem?

As for me, Xfire seems to work well enough. You don't have to upload the videos, you can edit them locally before uploading to youtube (or in my case, Vimeo). The streaming format is some kind of raw uncompressed format though, so expect it to take an absolute boatload of space before you compress the video down using h264 or whatever.

Believe it or not, this is actually a good thing. You don't want to recompress compressed video unless you absolutely have to.

[The Flitter]

McAfee is the problem here. Uninstall McAfee, then install the free version of Avast! Problem solved.

[plainawesome]

Don't use Mcaffe, it's a pile of warm crap. Instead, you should get AVG. I got it for $50 and it works great, ant the best part, very little, if any, false-positive detections!

[Samapico]

Don't use Mcaffe, it's a pile of warm crap. Instead, you should get AVG. I got it for $50 and it works great, ant the best part, very little, if any, false-positive detections!

AVG's free version works fine too.

[White Owl]

I started recording KSP with Bandicam, which worked okay. Moved to Fraps, which worked a lot better. Now using Dxtory, which is the best so far.

[sumghai]

I've always used Open Broadcaster for KSP videos, as it is free and open source.

Mild digression - Microsoft Security Essentials is a 100% free and reasonably good antivirus/antimalware program without the bloat that comes with most other antimalware suites.

[Solarspaceprobe]

Just get Open Broadcast Software(OBS). It's free and it works great.

[Red Iron Crown]

I think the OP may not have administrator privileges and is getting stuck when trying to install an external video recorder program.