For many purposes, you will need screen recording either for: Demonstration Tutorial making Etc purposes This page will recommend some softwares for screen recording (without specific instructions) Once you decide to use one software, please read the manual from their official website (Pay attention to its feature, better to choose one that support DirectX/OpenGL window)

• Newly added : OBS Studio (https://obsproject.com/)
  • Free & Open source
  • Can record screen and from camera, can save and do Live webcast
• Please reference to : http://alternativeto.net/software/fraps/
  • Fraps (https://fraps.com/)
    • Free, but the unpaid version have limited functionality
  • CamStudio (http://camstudio.org/)
    • Free
  • xFire (http://www.xfire.com/)
    • Free
    • Able to record directX/OpenGL window
• If you have a gray area in your screen for the recorded video, then that means this software doesn't support overlay window recording, in other word, it won't record anything in DirectX/Opengl Window area which means you need to switch to another one.
• If you recorded the game with game sound only, you can always add your voice over using Adobe Premiere which is available in students' computer lab inside V core.