How to record gameplay?

[Linamints]

I was hoping to record some of my gameplay but when I went to review the test video the colors looked like color vomit.
I tried the suggestion of of open the recording program first but all it did was make it so almost every color was black except for a few icons and some lines of the faction bases.

The program I'm trying to use is SMrecorder. I have also tried Cam studio and am not having any better luck with it. I have also tried the window trick but I get weird dark lines across the water.

I am running Alien Crossfire on Windows 7.

[Antoniaz]

What I'm interested in is this forum has the content I'm studying.