Many ways to do it... and none work!

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:39 am

I want to record something from my screen, but it's getting really complicated. 'Tis a game for Windows.

I downloaded the ZDsoft Screen Recorder and ran the game - got only blackness with audio. So I disabled the Hardware Acceleration for my video board and the game won't open. Instead, it displays an error message related to "openGL". I scavenged around the game directory and found some .DAT files, but I have no clue about how to convert them. All my attempts using AviSynth and VDM so far have failed.

I've heard of openGL before but I had no idea what it actually does. Based on what I found on the Wikipedia, I'm not sure if I should install it since I already have DirectX 9. In other words, I'm an idiot.

The ideal solution in my case would be capturing from the screen (either being able to run the game w/o hardware accel or finding a way to capture the hardware overlay video) but if that's impossible, I'll be perfectly happy with reading the DAT files.

Thanks in advance for any and all help,

--Gepetto

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:59 am

from what i understand, opengl helps with 3d rendering speeds. correct me if this is wrong.

i see alot of people use fraps for games.

in my euphoria spoof in the buttsecks MEP, i used snagit

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:58 pm

OpenGL is a graphics rendering standard. That's about it. It's a standard for putting graphics onto the screen.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:09 pm

Looking around for extraction tools for the specific game can often turn something up that can open the resource archives (in this case, the .DAT files) and unpack them - granted of course that this is a case of FMV or still images.

Which game is it?

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:26 am

FRAPS worked! The downside is having an entry for "Fraps Video Decoder" on the VirtualDub compression menu, but screw that, it worked.

The game was Pump It Up: The PREX 3 PC. I wanted to capture the Dignity steps for an AMV Hell 4 segment. Thank you all very much for the help and information on openGL. I'm a little less ignorant now =]