Why is my Sims 3 recording slow?

Question by frankluva4eva: Why is my Sims 3 recording slow?
Everytime I try to record on the Sims 3, it runs really slow. I quit the game to watch the video, hoping that maybe the video would be normal speed like on the Sims 2….it wasn’t. So I went back to the game and tried changing the settings. I set the capture size to large and the quality to medium BUT IT STILL RUNS SLOW. I really want to know if I can fix this because I love making Sims videos/movie and low quality won’t cut it. Can someone help me please?

Best answer:

Answer by Angry Deuce
If your computer isn’t powerful enough, recording video while rendering a 3d game is gonna slow it down terrible. There’s nothing that can be down about that.

You can try a 3rd party program called Fraps. I’ve used it for my game videos and it’s worked great, it’s not free (unless you know where to look wink wink) but even on modest hardware it worked pretty well.

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