Comic Maker Requesting Advice

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Since you brought up recording video specifically:

If you have a Nvidia Geforce 600, 700, 800, or 900 series card (like the 970 GTX) you can use Nvidia's Shadowplay which comes with their Geforce Experience program (the one that you use to download drivers with). It's still a bit buggy and may not capture sound if you're unlucky, but I think it's still in beta. It runs pretty light and doesn't really cause frame rate dips in my experience with it. AMD may have an equivalent, not sure though.

Another free option is MSI Afterburner, which is primarily an overclocking program, but it's built in video recorder is pretty good and has good quality. The program can also be set to take screenshots with your choice of button presses (like alt+/ or whatever you want).

If you have the game in Steam, or want to add XIV as a non-Steam game, you can use Steam's built in screenshot taker as well if you want just screenshots. May take them faster than the one built into the game.

Both recording programs can be used to record desktop (non game) footage as well.