Easiest Way to Record Gameplay in HD Quality…

There was a time when just kids were fond of the games, but today the gaming technology has reached to far from our imagination the real-world gaming experience. Now more adult peoples are involve in gaming than children.  There are more strategically/logical/adventures games are there and people loves to share their gameplay techniques. This tutorial will give all great tips on how you can record any of gameplay with high quality and share them online.

There are about three top leaders in record gameplay in highest available quality are: Fraps, Dxtory, Bandicam. But Fraps is the one the require minimum configuration to do and can easily able to record gameplay in HD quality. In previous article I told you how you can record movies with Fraps but it rocks when recording gameplays. You can check out the gameplay movie I recorded with Fraps here https://vimeo.com/75310586

Now let's follow the steps below on how you can record the gameplays of your favorite:

STEP ONE: RUN YOUR FAVORITE GAME
You can run your game if it's shortcut icon available on the desktop or you can run it through:

I)  Start Menu > All Programs > and scroll to your game program.

STEP TWO: RUN FRAPS
Now as you're in the gameplay and run Fraps you need to minimize the game, and I usually try to do this by pressing Windows Key + Desktop to go to desktop or simply press Ctrl+Shift+Esc. and run Fraps from Desktop Shortcut Icon or Start Menu.

II) Start Menu > All Programs > 'Fraps' folder > Fraps program

STEP THREE: CONFIGURE FRAPS PROGRAM
Now you need to do a little steps of configuration:

I) Click on 'FPS' tab and select 'Hide Overlay' option button because I know you don't want to keep seeing the FPS benchmarking while gameplay.

II) Set a Hotkey to capture the gameplay by going to 'MOVIES' tab and under 'Video Capture Hotkey' set the hotkey. I just set Shift+F7 key here.

FINAL STEP: LET'S RECORD THE FAVORITE GAMEPLAY
You're ready to record the gameplay and let's go back to the gameplay we minimized and just press the 'Video Capture Hotkey' Shift+F7 whenever you want to start gameplay record. When you want to stop gameplay recording just press 'Shift+F7' again and the gameplay recording will be finished.

One thing I forgot to tell you that Fraps eats lots of your hard drive that’s why you need lots of hard drive space for recording gameplay for long-time, and possible you may see some lag for long recoding but don’t worry I share some tips to get rid of lags forever in any recoding of gameplay just keep in touch and le't’s enjoy recording favorite moments of your gameplay and sharing online to help people how to clear all the stages of the game :)

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A Best Tool to Get Ultra Smooth Screen Video Recording Experience…

Possibly you may be in a troubling situation due to lags and no smoothness in the video when you try to use Camtasia, Camstudio, etc. to record HD video currently playing  on the media player and you didn’t find them great to do this task 100% well. Now may be you're looking for a better screen video recorder that will help you to record such videos.  So, today I'm going to share you a great screen recording tool that will help you to record ultra smooth screen recording.

The tools that I'm currently using for all super smooth screen video recording is FRAPS. It allows me to record HD movies, gameplay without losing quality. But unfortunately this tool isn't free, however you can get it for $37 with free updates. I just did a video to show the comparison between some of my previous screen video recording tools and this great software Fraps. You can check it out here (http://youtube.com/)

Now let's see how I can do ultra smooth recording with these tool but before you start recording please follow the performance improvement instructions given in this link will help for smooth & fast screen recording. Let's follow the step-by-step process below:

STEP ONE: RUN THE FRAPS
This is always the most easiest part for me :) and surely for your too.

1) Click 'Start' Menu > then 'All Programs' > Scroll to 'Fraps' folder then select Fraps program

STEP TWO: CONFIGURE FRAPS TO GET THE RESULTS WANTED
This program looks very simple and it is very simple no doubt just for 4 tabs for this whole program.

General Tab:
I) I usually check 'Minimize to system tray only' to keep it hide from taskbar while recording. Or sometime I just  check 'Start Fraps minimized' when I'm just recording a specific area for example recording movies/videos

II) Check 'Monitor Aero Desktop (DWM)’ this is the key option will help you to record your whole desktop. But it's only available in the newer version. and this option is buggy I don’t prefer Fraps to do desktop recording very much.

FPS Tab:
IV) Click the 'Hide Overlay' option button you will it on the right so you'll not see the FPS benchmarking on your video as you’re currently seeing below:

Movies Tab:
V) Set a suitable 'Video Capture Hotkey' whenever you need screen recording I'm using 'Shift+F10' key.

VI) Under 'Video Capture Setting' select the suitable fps most of the time for movies you can use 25-30 FPS or might be 60 fps if it's HD video or a gameplay. I forgot to mention that this tool can help you to record your gameplay (such you’re playing FIFA 2011 you can easily record with this tool.)

VII) Under 'Sound Capture Settings' if you want to narrate your voice with microphone check 'Record external input' mostly you'll do this if you're creating a tutorial for playing games otherwise just uncheck it and check 'Record Win7 Sound’ for recording movies.

VIII) Check 'Hide mouse cursor in video' if it's movie/gameplay

Note: Most Importantly If you’re going to record a long video then you should first select a drive location where you’ve some amount of hard drive space and to do this click ‘Change’ and browse the location then click ‘OK’.

FINAL STEP: LET'S READY TO START RECORDING YOUR SCREEN
Now be prepare you'll to do the first screen recording experience with tool:

IX) Just press your 'Video Capture Hotkey' I set Shift+F10 to start recording but you'll notice there is no sign of  recording on the screen. but it's recording and let’s enjoy recording videos on your screen.

I usually use this for recording PowerPoint videos with sync audio on iSpring then record in HD format with this great tool. I have already used Camtasia, Camstudio (Free), Snagit (for Low-end computers) but I didn't find such ultra smooth screen video recording with these tools. There are some tricks that you need to do to improve the video recording performance, but I'm sure you'll not find such smoothness as compare to recording with this tools, possible some may not agree no doubt.

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How to Know Which PC Device Drivers are Outdated ???…

For several days I had faced the continuous BSODs (Blue screen of deaths) on my PC. I didn't know what thing is causing this big headache for me. I tried keep googling to find a best a solution and after many days I found that my outdated device drivers are causing this problem. But I didn't even know how to know which driver is outdated. So, today I'm sharing a you a really nice utility that can help you to find outdated drivers from your PC and and even install updated ones.

The program I'm talking about is Driver Reviver which isn't fully free but you can able to check outdated drivers with the free version of Driver Reviver. You can download the free version of this software from http://www.reviversoft.com/driver-reviver/ and click 'Download now'. Install this program I usually install most of my programs in C: drive because I have lots of space in that :)

After installation of Driver Reviver you're ready to find your outdated drivers with this free version, and If you really want to save some more time with automatic installation of updated device drivers then you have to spent some money just $29.99, but you can able to find the recent drivers without paying for this program, and method will be to find recent ones manually. OK let’s move on and follow the steps to detect outdated drivers and to update them manually.

STEP ONE: OPEN DRIVER REVIVER PROGRAM
1) Go to Start Menu > Click 'All Programs' >  scroll to 'RevivorSoft' folder > select  'Driver Reviver' > then select 'Driver Reviver' program

STEP TWO: DETECTING OUTDATED DRIVERS WITH THIS UTILITY
Now you have to click 'Home' tab of this program where you'll see your PC Health which depends on the updated driver and as you can see it' showing 'Excellent' since I already updated my PC's device drivers. In this step all you need is to click 'Start PC Scan now' and wait until the process completes.

STEP THREE: FINDING THE LATEST DEVICE DRIVERS ONLINE
As Driver Reviver completes finding outdated drivers it will show the message 'Action Required' and number of device driver that are outdated in the ‘Home’ tab. Now, let’s find their latest versions online. Here I'm giving you some useful websites which you help getting the updated versions of your PC’s outdated drivers.

1) CNET - http://download.cnet.com/windows/drivers/
2)  Device Identifier - http://www.driveridentifier.com/
3) Driver Guide - http://www.driverguide.com/index.php
4) If you have any branded machine like Acer, Compaq, HP, Dell,  Gateway then you can simply go to their website and get the latest versions.

As you know that finding drivers online manually really eats time. But the good news is I'll give you some useful tips in coming articles about finding PC device drivers online more efficiently which will save some of your time. I hope after updating device drivers you’ll see the better performance of your computer.

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