Hey folks 

so, I've downloaded camstudio, as it's free and supposedly the most easy-to-use video capture programme.
But my tests so far haven't been any good: the graphics is all distorted and elements are displaced.
The input rate is ca. 15 fps...

There's an older thread on camstudio here where someone says that its a Vista graphics dirver thing (i have Vista and no proper card, only an onboard graphics chip).

Shall I try hypercam instead (only FOUND a trial version so far, and it's more complicated)?

Any suggestions?Camstudio is great, but the sampling rate on onboard video is horible across the board. System SPECS also affect success with it, such as I USED it on a Pentium 4 2Ghz eMachine with 512MB Ram and onboard video and when recording audio/video its horrible. I also have a 2Ghz Pentium 4 with a GeForce 6200 video card  8x AGP ith 256MB video Ram, and 2GB Ram and its bearable. Then on my AMD Athlon 64 dual-core with GT 8800 and 512MB Video card and 4GB Ram is very smooth with audio and video capturing.

Cam Studio also has the ability to remove sound which will give better performance for lower end systems as well as select the area of the screen to capture VS whole screen to improve the sampling rate not having to sweep the entire screen but a smaller area. You can also adjust the quality of the recording to have less lag freeze framing.

What do you have for a system, CPU, Ram ( is this a laptop or a desktop/tower )

If being used to capture actual streaming video such as movies, video games, etc ( Cam Studio's quality can be distorted blurry.)thanks.

I have a desktop with 1 GB Ram, single channel, which will turn into double channel once i'll have bought a proper graphics card.