Problems capturing full screen mode for video

[ka0s420]

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this problem? I wanted to make a video of my game to show the progress so far on youtube. I'm using Apowersoft free screen recorder. When i enter the game which is set to fullscreen, the software just records a black screen without any of the stuff that's going on in the game. Figured this is to do with sfml rather than the screen capture, as I don't think ptrscreen works either. Is there a fix for this?

[ka0s420]

Okay, it's the software that causes it. Apparently it will only record games if they're in borderless windowed mode. However, I managed to record in full screen using the screen capturer that comes with nvidia's geforce experience. Problem solved.

[eXpl0it3r]

Apowersoft probably just does an actual screen capturing, which won't work when an application takes full control over the screen, i.e. fullscreen mode. Besides that, the performance of such a capturing mode is usually quite low. What you want instead is a tool that can capture game play footage, by either getting the video directly from the GPU or hooking itself into the game and grabbing the image data directly from OpenGL/DirectX.

ShadowPlay is will feed directly off the GPU and thus has one of the lowest impact on capturing game footage.

I can also recommend OBS Studio, which works with a lot of different recording methods and generally provides pretty much all the features you need to capture video.

[ka0s420]

thanks, Exploit3r 

[alexeicashour]

I think that maybe your computer's resolution is set too low. 2. And how can the problem with resolution be solved?

[subscriptionm]

To capture high-quality screen captures, you need to use the best software on the market. There are a few different ways to take high-quality screen captures. One way is to use professional screen capture software like Snagit or Movavi. These programs will allow you to record your screen and save high-quality footage. For example, I use Movavi and am delighted with it. You can read more about it at https://www.movavi.com/support/how-to/how-to-record-screen-on-mac.html. I never had any problem with this app; I think it's one of the best.