Take Screenshot of Game or Record Video
How to Take Screenshot of a Game or Record Video? This tutorial is being
published for the users who want to take and capture screenshots of their
games, most probably the Cricket 2007 game because a few of the users asked
me how could they capture and save screenshots of the Game while they are
playing. This capturing is called Real-time screen capture. I’m sharing the
way how could people easily capture screenshots of their Video games while
playing. Users may be able to save Full HD High-Quality pictures of their
Game. This tutorial not only guides you on how to take snaps of Game while
you will also be able to record Games as movies and publish the Video to
Youtube and similar websites. Fraps is premium software but you can still
use it as a Free user.
Take Screenshot of Game or Record Video
There are lots of software available on the internet to take screenshot of game and record Games but the most famous and easy Game Screen Capturer and Recorder are known as “FRAPS”. Time to tell you how to download and use this software for recording Games and taking snapshots.
Download & Install Software:-
Visit the Official Website of Product “FRAPS” and move to Download Section and start downloading this software, when it finishes Run setup to install this program to your PC and Start Fraps Application. (Windows Vista/7/8 Users must ‘Run as Administrator).
How to Take Screenshots:
Important things to understand and keep in your mind:-
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The folder to save screenshots in is a location where you can save snaps, by clicking the “Change” blue button to select another directory and “View” will jump to the location where screenshots are being saved.
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Screen Capture Hotkey is a Key defined by Keyboard, by pressing this Key once screenshot will be automatically saved on the preferred directory. By default, the Key is “F10” you may change it anytime by clicking over it and “Repress” any key from Keyboard.
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Screen Capture Settings, by Checking “Include frame rate overly on screenshots” will add an overlay on each image like “FPS 99”, while Checking “Repeat screen capture every __ seconds” will restrict saving images until the prescribed seconds passed even pressing the Hotkey.
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Image Format can save your images as the provided formats like BMP, JPG, PNG, and TGA, although JPG will be smaller in size with Good Quality also.
Take Screenshot of Game or Record Video
After knowing the necessary things, now Just Start “Fraps” minimize it and Start your Game. (Always start first Fraps then Game). While playing the game if want to take Screenshot just press the “F10” key from the keyboard to save images.
How to Record Games:-
Necessary things to know and remember in mind:-
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The folder to save movies is a location where your video will be saved, by clicking the “Change” blue button to select another directory and “View” will jump to the location where videos/movies are being saved.
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Video Capture Hotkey is a key which will start recording by pressing it, Default key is “F9” which can be replaced by any key by clicking on it and “repressing” another key from the keypad".
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Sound Capture Settings enables you to either record game’s sound or your own voice, by checking “Record Win7 Sound” will record Game audio and enabling “Record external input” while recording your voice through Microphone (if any), selecting both features will record Your voice and Game Sounds too. Remain “Stereo” selected for better sound.
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Video Capture Settings, 3 predefined frame rates setting are available but still have the choice to redefine your own frame rate, but ”30 fps” is enough to record any game.
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Hide the mouse cursor in the video, by checking it will hide the mouse cursor during recording and will show if not checked.
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Lock framerate while recording, enabling this will simple restrict recording at the same framerate as defined.
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Force lossless RGB capture (may be slower), it’s for RGB colours which are too old but avoid checking this option.
Simply first Start “Fraps” then open your Game and start playing, if ready for recording just press the “F9” key to start recording and pressing again will stop it.
