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2nd Step launch MSI Afterburner :

Do not touch any settings here, this is not the subject of this tutorial.
Click on Settings area marked in red here.



Here is the first tab General from MSI Afterburner configuration panel.

 

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3rd Step configure MSI Afterburner :

Click the arrows at the top right for going to the Video Capture tab.

1 Choose a keyboard shortcut to toggle the capture while playing. Here I choose CTRL + F12 2 Choose the RTV1 codec (Riva Tuner Video ) 3 Leave at 85 % 4 Choose full frame. This saves your capture at he same resolution as your game. 5 Choose 25 or 30 FPS25 pictures per second = PAL standard 6 Choose a hard disk or partition with plenty of space free between 10 and 100 GB of free and not the system disk C:\ !       7 Verify that audio is checked. 8 Leave Auto select, unless you have multiple sound card, for experts …

 

Click the On-Screen Display tab.

Do not check the case Show On-Screen Display on captured screenshots and videos

All this do now click OK

OK to technical messages.
If everything goes well this new configuration screen appears.

 

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4th Step configure RivaTuner panel :

1 in High 2 in ON   3 in Vector 2D           4 in ON

The " Show own statistics" allow in capture to see the technical information, such as the "frame rate" (number of frames per second) and the good progress of recording.
If you have disabled the option "Show On-Screen Display on captured
screenshots and videos" so all this information will not be written on the video ;)

Iconify the windows now everything is OK in MSI Afterbuner.

 

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5th Step verify your audio configuration system :
This is very important because it is really probable when you make a video capture the sound of the game is too low, or absent. I'm going to explain you why and how to fix this.

Launch the configuration software of your sound card for example HD Adeck if you have a VIA audio chip, or equivalent if you have a Realtek chip or a Creative Labs chip. Mostly this looks like an audio mixer, where you can control the inputs and outputs levels.

Here is an example with HD Adeck :

The logic is to configure the card / chip to record audio mix, not the microphone or line input !

This example here I click Mixer, Recording and then I chose Stereo Mix, and I put the maximum level. (This is a limiter it amplify nothing.)

But that's not enough we must also control the levels of the audio mix. Launch the audio mixer of Windows.

CAUTION before touching the audio mixer of Windows put at MINIMUM your audio amp, stereo box, PC speaker, headphones, etc. MINIMUM!!

Beware if you have a laptop you must connect a headset or speakerphone PC at minimum and NEVER listen headphones thoroughly on your ears otherwise you risk a traumatic noise, and you must go immediately to the emergency. WARNING!

With Windows XP here is what its look like :
( Right click on the taskbar speaker )



The master level must be at thoroughly also the wav sound.

ATTENTION TO YOUR EARS AND YOUR AMPS!

 

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6th Step launch the recording !
Verify that MSI Afterburner is running in memory ( the two rocket in the task bar )



Launch your game, and when you want to start the recording make the keys shortcut CTRL + F12. Like indicated at step 3.
When you have finish CTRL + F12.
And so on …

Good games and good captures with MSI Afterburner :)

BONUS : For playing your videos I guidance to use this media player
Media Player Classic + FFDShow. VLC can't read RTV1 !


Media Player Classic
http://www.codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder
http://www.codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm



It only remains you to use your video editing software for adding your narrations, your comments, etc.. All of this takes some time, expertise, and patience, it's a job for someone, a hobby for the others ...

Greetings to everyone, gamers, geeks, youtuber, etc...

-=( AMOTRAX )=-

PS : screen capture realized with Crystal Amotrax Theme on a French Windows XP freely available for all versions of Windows XP, on any language.