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Wouldn't say "all", there's a number of fairly big LPers/Gaming Personalities (100k+ subs) that use DxTory as well. (TotalBiscuit is the first gaming personality to come to mind, when it comes to people who recently made the transition to DxTory)

Every software has its perks and flaws - and solution for user A isn't always the best for user B

I use a mac and screenium seems to work well

There's Dxtory. I personally use Fraps though.

I'd say use Fraps. --------------------------

I'm still a "noob" at this whole recording thing, so can someone tell me how to use fraps? Thanks.

Currently I'm using fraps for MC, but if you aren't cursed with a gtx600 series card, dxtory is great.

DxTory, not free, and there is a reason. It is fully customizable for all suites of gaming and will record anything. It auto recognizes where you want it to record and will actually benchmark your drive to see if you can record in the quality you have it set up for.

I personally use fraps, I get good fps and I use a laptop, I set it ay 45 and get average of 41-42, I also use avs4you video editor to edit them with is good and easy t use, then convert the avi file to a flv (flash) using avs4you video converter which can convert to HD quality and split your videos into "chapters" so they save as separate files for upload at different times.

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I personally use fraps, I get good fps and I use a laptop, I set it ay 45 and get average of 41-42, I also use avs4you video editor to edit them with is good and easy t use, then convert the avi file to a flv (flash) using avs4you video converter which can convert to HD quality and split your videos into "chapters" so they save as separate files for upload at different times.

EDIT: also forgot to mention avs4you does cost, but you can get a crack program on a torrent site like the pirate bay that will unlock all avs4you programs full version with the click of a button. is you need any of this without look i have it all on my laptop and you can pm me for my Skype to get them.

We use Fraps.

If all you want to do is open a game and record, by all means, Fraps is great. I personally use Dxtory, and I think it is the best recording software there is, at least for my needs.

I know Antvenom recommends dxtory

The key is - you have to use the tool that's "best" for you, and by 'you' - I mean both your system AND your technical knowledge (thankfully the 'technical knowledge' tends to improve the more you are forced to encounter over the course of making videos... goodness knows I've had to learn a lot about things I didn't think about at first).

FRAPs almost requires dual HDDs unless you are recording a game/resolution that's got a low data rate requirement (read/write speed) - hell, at certain resolutions, you NEED an SSD to record with fraps (admittedly, that's at excessively large resolutions... 1080p can write to a velociraptor if you don't need to read from it at the same time).

DxTory (and other tools like Bandicam and such, that you generally use specific codecs to 'compress' the data) - can work on single-HDD systems a little more reliably, but tax other assets on your computer such as Processor, GPU, etc. (depending on the program).

Generally - you want FRAPs + DxTory (or something similar) - it's kind of like having a flathead screwdriver and a philips head screwdriver. You can unscrew everything with the flathead, but sometimes the phillips head is more 'efficient' - if that makes sense. (Fraps being the flathead, DxTory being the philips head )

As an aside, the software is semi-important, but in the end, it's going to be your hardware that really makes or breaks your ability to record... There's reasons why my system from 2007 can still record better than most 'off the shelf' systems (ie prebuilts) from 2012/2013 - processor choice, harddrive choice, and GPU choice being among those (Was only a dual core, but it had a high clock speed, the harddrive was a velociraptor, and the GPU had a high clock speed for its time as well - its also the reason it was able to play games that it technically didn't meet the minimum reqs for, because it took advantage of a generational hiccup - that still occurs to this day especially in nVidia gpus, compare GeForce GT 610 OEM to the GeForce GT 640 - 640 has more memory, but the 610 has a much higher clock speed)

FRAPs and Bandicam function and strain different resources, most people who are encountering more lag with FRAPs as opposed to bandicam usually do so due to a harddrive chokepoint (read/writes) - FRAPs creates very large files with limited processing. Bandicam (depending on codec used) - compresses while recording, resulting in smaller files and thus straining read/write less, but straining other resources more.

Just remember - the more 'compression' the lower the quality usually.

DxTory can work much better on lower end systems for similar reasons to bandicam 'seeming' to cause less lag. Though DxTory allows much more tweaking specifically for your system and recording environment compared to bandicam.

I use screencasomatic, here is one of my vids so you can see what it's like

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Not a lets player, but i use fraps all the time (For gaming videos), and i got a decent fps in my videos.

Here is my channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/HeadB0xF1N

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you can use bandicam just make your minecraft screen small it runs faster (dont use mods makes lots of lag)

I did not read any pages besides page one, but so far you guys are ALL wrong. I am almost POSITIVE most of them use Dxtory.

It's mostly preference of what they like to use. Even though it's not a video recorder, direwolf20 admits to using windows movie maker to edit his videos lol

Its Dxtory he uses Dxtory

I use ezvid. It works amazingly on my computer. Fraps and bandicam suck because they show at the top what software you're using. With ezvid, you can add music, speed up or slow down your videos, and so much more. Once you get used to how it works, its amazing how it looks.

I use DxTory, CaptainSparklez uses DxTory, and AntVenom uses DxTory.