Quote Originally Posted by Ava View Post
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.