How To Capture Screenshots/Videos Of PC Games

This is a guide of a piece of cake thing to do. Still though, there are still people out there, that dont know how to capture their favorite scenes and videos of their favorite games so just read below and save ur best gaming moments in ur hard drive upload them on youtube or do whatever u feel like! 

A) First you need to download the right program for that job. One quite appropriate and the most common among the gamers program is Fraps. You can either purchase it or download the full cracked version (you are responsible for it) from any torrent site.

B) Then u just have to install it or unzip it and install it (it depends on the format that u have downloaded)

C) After Fraps is installed, run Fraps.

D) A small window will open (that looks like this) with several tabs:

E) To take screenshots 1.just click on the tab screenshots and 2. chose "JPEG" as the image format (it's the most common format), 3. define where u want ur screenshots to be saved 4. define the screen capture hotkey, 5. and decide whether or not u want to include in ur screenshots the frame rate overlay (thats the yellow number that appears in the decided corner) 6. and if u want to repeat screen capture every a standard amount of seconds (see the pic below).

F) Minimize the Fraps window, run ur game and whenever u want press the defined hotkey for screen capturing and the screenshots will be saved in the folder that u choose on the step "3".

Thats all about capturing a screenshot. Now about video capturing. The process and the logic behind it is almost the same with the only difference that in video capturing we have more details and options to adjust. The pic below will explain things thoroughly.

A) To capture videos 1. click on the "Movies" tab. 2. select where you want the movie to be saved 3. define the video capturing hotkey. 4. chose the frames per second that the movie will have (the more the larger the file will be in size) 5. define if the system will create a new movie file every 4 Gigabytes. 6. Choose the sound of the movie. Here u can choose if u want the sound to be that of Windows (ur game sounds) or external sounds (lets say that u want to record ur own commentary for the movie. This requires a microphone). 7. and in the end we have 3 choices. The one is for making the mouse cursor invinsible, the second is for the framerate to be visible and the third is for the rgb capture.

B) Then like u did for screenshots minimize the window while in movies tab, run a game and press the defined key to start recording and press it again to stop the recording. The movie file will be saved in the path that u chose.

NOTE: The movie files tend to be quite large in size so if u have in mind to do long videos like walkthroughs longplays and stuff like that the best thing to do is make small videos of 10mins max for a better management.