Screen Capture

Hugoagogo on 2011/09/19 11:49

Is anyone able to recommend a good screen capture program, i haven't been able to find one that will play nicely with my game, every program i find seems to either have messed up colours or make the controls for the game sticky, so suggestions appreciated.

Also, i am on windows

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richard on 2011/09/19 12:58:

If you're using pyglet then you can use

  pyglet.image.get_buffer_manager().get_color_buffer().save('filename.png')

Hugoagogo on 2011/09/19 20:56:

Sorry i should have been more clear i want to record a video of my game

Hugoagogo on 2011/09/19 20:57:

And pyglet

richard on 2011/09/19 21:49:

Ah, right :-) Have you tried fraps? It seems popular.

Hugoagogo on 2011/09/20 05:20:

Yea i have had a go with that, it didnt make the keys sticky but im not sure it just doesn't seem right, i have uploaded a video made with it though.

Archy on 2011/09/20 08:12:

Fraps is definitly the best one for windows, all others cause much more lag.

VirtualDub is a possibility, but you need an additional program that generates the virtual camera that delivers the video data. There was one that was at least free for 30 days. It can be hard to set up and I don't think it will be better than fraps.
 
You should deactivate vsync while capturing otherwise fps will propably split in half.

Archy on 2011/09/20 08:36:

Ahh, thats why you game had major issues on my main pc. Somehow using pyglet and vsync misses half the frames on my machine, which means 30fps. This is the reason I deactivated vsync in my game, because if I have this problem probably others have it to. Using 70% or 100% of a single core isn't that big of a difference.
 
Allison is unplayable at 30fps. It is not possible to activate the special abilities, at least the glowing head and running is very jittery. If this is what you are experiencing with fraps deactivating vsync will probably help.

mihi on 2011/09/20 09:44:

I use vlc to do this.

Hugoagogo on 2011/09/20 09:50:

ok thanks i will try disabling vsync, sorry that you were not able to play my game, if you are having trouble with the glowing head ability most, the lighting can be sped up by using psyco.

@ mihi i will look into using vlc

Archy on 2011/09/20 09:56:

Not a problem, played it on another pc. Died, often. :)