Fraps or something similar

What is a good piece of software used to record your gameplay and then can be edited and what not. It doesn't even have to be edited, I don't mind people seeing me die.

The reason I ask this is becuase I've always been interested in capturing live feed from first person shooters among many other genres, such as RTS. Before I would hook my video camera to my computer and just record it like that, but I no longer have my video camera so I can't go down that route.

I just really want to make some short gameplay footage, and maybe even make a nice little collection of big battles for my own personal collection from either my point of view from playing in the round or being a spectator and just go through everyone and see the battle up close where it is on the map at the moment. I think it will be a fun little side project. And if I make anything that is worth others viewing, I will definately upload them to Gamespot for your viewing pleasure or dislike. I can only get better and critique it from other users being critical on my gameplay videos. As in, maybe tips of it would have been better if you would haev spun the camera around and caught that action sequence from this angle and things in that nature.

Well, thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this matter.

or try camstudio

I was just in Windows Movie Maker and I clicked Caputer from video device and I got an error that said "A video capture device was not detected. Verify that a device is turned on and working properly , and then try again"

This makes me wonder if I have a device on my computer to record video. What type of video device do I need to capture video's on my PC?

I was just in Windows Movie Maker and I clicked Caputer from video device and I got an error that said "A video capture device was not detected. Verify that a device is turned on and working properly , and then try again"

This makes me wonder if I have a device on my computer to record video. What type of video device do I need to capture video's on my PC?

cos_vanquish

you record with fraps then drop it in WMM

fraps basically just takes screenshots every 1/25th of a second, and stores it and audio in a streamed file, for this reason it can slow down your game somwhat.nutcrackr

Yep, that's a major annoyance with Fraps, it a huge system hog. I tried making some Worms (world party) vids at a LAN some time ago, and even that lagged like hell, as much as UT2004 as a matter of fact.

I wonder how my new comp manages. :)
But besides that, Fraps is also nice for displaying your FPS, if you have a Logitech G15 keyboard, you can get Fraps to show the FPS counter on the LCD and turn the on-screen display off. Pretty neat.