Can my computer record?

[ErrorCode404]

Hello. I've been using Camtasia to record with Terraria on my computer, but it lags and I wish their was a better program. Is Camstudio better? I heard it uses less resources...

What is the lowest-resource-using program out there? My specifications are

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
AMD E-30R
Zacate 40nm Technology
RAM
4.00 GB DDR3 @ 539MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard
TOSHIBA Portable PC (Socket FT1) 53 °C
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@60Hz)
AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics (Toshiba) 53 °C
Hard Drives
298GB TOSHIBA TOSHIBA MK3265GSXN SATA Disk Device (SATA) 37 °C
Optical Drives
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633J SATA CdRom Device
Audio
Conexant SmartAudio HD

[SHSPVR]

There nothing unless you go with Realtime MPEG or H264 Hardware Encoder.
I take that this a laptop or notebook, netbook?.

[ErrorCode404]

Originally Posted by SHSPVR

There nothing unless you go with Realtime MPEG or H264 Hardware Encoder.
I take that this a laptop or notebook, netbook?.

It's a laptop. Why can't I use Camstudio?

[BuffCareBear]

If your computer can run the game fine really the only specs that matter are the HDD and the CPU to less extent(Unless you're compressing the video while recording.) If you're recording to the same drive as your OS, the recording will still come out like dog poop. Get a 7200RPM HDD for recording and that will resolve any issues with recording. There's no free way around recording PC games the right way. You're going to have to spend money. If you have an external USB 3.0 or eSATA harddrive you could try that, though I'm willing to bet the results will be the same.

tl;dr You need a HDD dedicated to recording, OS drive = No,no for recording. Right now the HDD is a really, REALLY narrow bottleneck.

*Edit* Also I noticed you asked about programs. The above still applies, unless you want to record at a garbage resolution.

[ErrorCode404]

Originally Posted by BuffCareBear

If your computer can run the game fine really the only specs that matter are the HDD and the CPU to less extent(Unless you're compressing the video while recording.) If you're recording to the same drive as your OS, the recording will still come out like dog poop. Get a 7200RPM HDD for recording and that will resolve any issues with recording. There's no free way around recording PC games the right way. You're going to have to spend money. If you have an external USB 3.0 or eSATA harddrive you could try that, though I'm willing to bet the results will be the same.

tl;dr You need a HDD dedicated to recording, OS drive = No,no for recording. Right now the HDD is a really, REALLY narrow bottleneck.

*Edit* Also I noticed you asked about programs. The above still applies, unless you want to record at a garbage resolution.

So what your saying is, I need an external hard drive, and I need to save my recordings to that?

[BuffCareBear]

Originally Posted by ErrorCode404

So what your saying is, I need an external hard drive, and I need to save my recordings to that?

Yes and no. If your laptop does not have eSATA(http://blog.fnac.es/wp-content/uploa...er-449x339.jpg) or USB 3.0(http://i.testfreaks.com/blog/wp-cont...0/02/usb82.jpg) you'll just get worse performance. Though I would expect similar frame rates even with en external drive as most of them are 5400RPM. I would see if you have extra HDD slot if you do awesome, if not I guess you could try an eSATA drive or USB 3.0 external drive, though I suspect you'll still be in the same boat.