Recent debate about the merits of sending a screenshot to customer services set me thinking .... Software exists to record everything that happens on your screen, as a movie file. As with most things, I believe there are commercial applications as well as freeware. I don't have Windows XP, so for all I know there may even be something bundled with that to do the job. It does seem potentially useful to be able to record what goes on, not just to capture evidence of any bugs (or indeed to satisfy yourself that a bug was only imagined in the heat of the moment), but also to allow for a play-by-play analysis of a game when it's all over. The only possible drawback is if the recorder application puts such a load on the PC that it slows down everything else and interferes with the game. Has anybody had any experience with such a utility? I'm thinking of trying some out that are built around the free VNC tool. E.g., http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bsd/vncrecording.html
Hypercam Here is something I found a while back and tried while playing GP. It is called hypercam and can be found at www.hyperionics.com. You can try it for free and buy it if you like it for $39.95. I don't recall that it slowed my system down to much, but it was a while back when I tried it. Pat
Thanks Pat Being a cheapskate, I might try the totally free options first I found the following article which lists various products, including 'Windows Media Encoder 9', which is apparently a free download from Microsoft. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/11/11/primetime.html
