Suggestion: In-game video recorder

[Vesperia]

This is a terrible idea, imo. An in game recorder would be worse than fraps, and it's completely unneeded and wasted development time. If you can't record with fraps, what makes you think you can record without it? Recording live *anything* on your PC is a resource hog, and fraps is the best program out there for it on a PC. If you want to record your game play, buy fraps and learn how to use it, pirated copies are usually not good alternatives. It's well worth the $.

FRAPS is a resource hog because it records in video format. An in game recorder would just record the bare minimum graphical data to reproduce the scene and thereby alleviate alot of stress on people's computers.

[Ava]

FRAPS is a resource hog because it records in video format. An in game recorder would just record the bare minimum graphical data to reproduce the scene and thereby alleviate alot of stress on people's computers.

FRAPS is not a resource hog. Recording requires high write speeds on the hard drive. Most of the slowing down people experience when recording with fraps or any other program is likely because they are running everyone off of 1 hard drive. I'm not really sure I understand what you're saying, but if I understand it right, if the game did do what you're saying, it would be recording into a relatively useless (non avi) proprietary format (similar to replay files for games like SC2). I'm not really sure that kind of thing is what the posters of this thread envision.

A recording program like fraps (or one of the half million lesser alternatives) is the only way to record high quality raw video data for use on the web.