Moggle

I know I have a computer which should be able to fraps very well. The problem is that I can get down to 5-10 ish FPS occasionally, and sometimes it runs smooth as hell even in larger battles. It doesn't matter whether my resolution or settings are on low or high, I've tried most of it. The FPS-drops seem to be completely random, and I can't figure out what the heck to do about it.


Edit: As an example: Recording in 1360 x 1024 gives the same result (skip/FPS-wise) as recording in 800 x 600.

I'm recording in Full Size, since that's what I want. Half Size however does not solve the issue. I've tried various different FPS limits such as 25, 30, 35, 50, 60. Same problem every time. Works great for a while, and then BAM everything just slows down, FPS falls to the bottom of hell.

 

Aroll2

My experience: 60 framse, no sound, half sized. I know half sized isn't what you want. Ok, so leave it full sized. Still set it to 60 fps and no sound.

If that gives you a really smooth running video (say on hodir, a more graphic intense battle) but later bogs down on freya or whatever boss - likely your processor is getting hang ups. Make sure all your drivers are up to date and that your processor is running smoothly. Hang ups suck.

Also - resolution wont make a big difference, but lowering in game graphic settings can.

Example: When I record I pretty much set everyone on the lowest settings to prevent "natural" dips in FPS. naturally, when a boss does more stuff and I have to run by him,t he raid is doing more dmage, etc - your FPS dips, even without recording.... you just may not notice it. Then when recording... it dips to the noticable level. Gotta sacrifice the graphics for a solid video.

Check out http://shadedbyoblivion.com and look at the recent videos. Hodir my processor hung - so I needed to stop recording and lower the settings... but it was mid fight. Likewise, on 10 freya and hodir, with minimum settings: There was no issue with fps.

Just a suggestion. I am sure you've tried this before... but processor hangups are becoming a common issue.

 

KasumiRevy

I have been using Fraps over the past few months, and have found my space to hold them all is dwindling quickly and I soon will have to either delete clips, encode them, or buy another hard drive. I use Sony Vegas for editing and I have been having problems encoding the raw fraps down, then using the encoded files for editing. (I used xvid and divx for encoding)

Anyone have a suggestion for a good format to encode in for editing? (with Sony Vegas in particular)

 

jumanji

Hello, I'm currently making a video and came across a movie intro Theéd - Shadowpriest PvP By Theed - World of Warcraft Movies.
I would like to ask if anyone do know how to blend the character model (translucent) into a clip? Time at 0:37 to 01:27
Thanks in advance!

 

Illundai

Hi,

after recently upgrading my computer to something a lot more powerful than my previous setup I wanted to try FRAPSing again. System specs:

i7 920
6 gb dd3
ATI 5850

my FPS are more than fine. However, when I'm FRAPSing in Full-Size my FPS limits itself to 30 FPS, no matter what setting I pick in the FRAPS menu. I've tried turning No Sync on and off, I've tried turning sound recording off and many more. As soon as I untoggle Full Size my FPS goes up to whatever I pick. I can't seem to find any information on this annoying bug, so maybe someone here knows what the problem is?

I'm running Vista 64bit.

[e] Tried it with xfire and it does the same thing here...

Yes, Death Knight tanks are/were too good in 3.0.x. Having 38k HP, 76.81% Avoidance (Miss incl.) and not gimping your threat in the first tier of gear is broken. (Yes this is clickable)

 

• Gnarfoz

That doesn't really sound like a bug to me.
I get exactly the amount of FPS in game that I choose to record at in Fraps.

(I haven't uses half-size in ages though, you're saying it doesn't behave like that there?)




Oh, also, Fraps 3.0 is out.

Quis custōdiet ipsōs custōdēs? -- Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

 

Illundai

I'm saying that even if I put the FPS higher than 30 it never exceeds 30. It's capped to 30 no matter what.

Yes, Death Knight tanks are/were too good in 3.0.x. Having 38k HP, 76.81% Avoidance (Miss incl.) and not gimping your threat in the first tier of gear is broken. (Yes this is clickable)

 

Aul

Did you try updating Fraps? They've recently released a new version with the following changelog:

3.0.1 - 8th Nov 2009
- Added minimize to systray option for Win7 users
- Fixed video capture frame rate defaulting to 30 fps when Fraps loads

Perhaps that will solve your issue.

 

Saltyone

Has anyone ever encountered this behavior in fraps? While recording with 2.x or 3.x, all audio on my machine is piped back through Ventrillo (very loud) when I transmit. I’ve asked around on frapsforum, with no useful replies. It has pretty much shut down my attempts to fraps my guild’s raids, as I must speak on ventrillo.

Intel DP35DPM Motherboard with Intel IDT Audio.

Settings:
* In WoW: Game Sound output: IDT Audio1
* In Ventrillo: Output device: (use direct sound is checked) IDT Audio 1, Input device: (use direct sound is checked) IDT Audio 1, Hardware input mixer (None)
* In sound properties: Recording: Stereo Mix and Line In ('Select' is not checked) 100%, Microphone ('Select'ed) 100%

 

Terraburn

I apologize if this has been mentioned before but a couple way to increase the performance of Fraps and WoW running together:

Have Fraps installed to a second hard drive seperate from WoW.
If possible, have that hard drive actually be two drives setup in a raid0.

If you're running at least a dual core processor, assign the affinity of 1 core to WoW and the other to Fraps.


Bottom line is even the most beasty machines are going to see a performance dump when frapsing while running the game at super high settings. The above plus turning the quality down a little bit are just a few things that can make a world of difference.

 

kr0n1x

I would like to have higher FPS while raiding and, why not, make some clips of my playing, but at the moment i can't have any.

My hardware spec is:
Intel C2D E6300 (1,8 Ghz)
Asus P5B
Radeon HD 3450
2*512MB DDR2 800 Mhz
Onboard sound card

I thinke these are the most important pc's parts, right?

What I should change by priority? Are some parts good? Give a grade from 0 to 10 of each piece please, and maybe a good replacement for that part if you can!

At the moment, in fights like Valkyr 25 heroic, I've around 10 fps. This lowers my playing performance.

Thanks!

 

• Heavenly

Just like the recording feature in the mac version of WoW, the most important aspect to recording video on FRAPS is how fast you can write data to a hard drive; the other parts just apply to if you want to record video with higher settings in the game. Depending on your resolution, even one external drive can't have the write speed to maintain a decent FPS. Terraburn stated that the best way to record with FRAPS(and the Mac client) is to a drive that isn't used by WoW and in a RAID setup. These numbers are from my mac client for the data rate at recording video @ 1280x800 vs. 1920x1200 but should be the same for FRAPS:

20FPS: 29/66mb/s
25FPS: 37/83mb/s
30FPS: 44/99mb/s
60FPS: 88/198mb/s

At 1280x800, you could record to the same HD as WoW but it would kill your FPS in game. With my Macbook, I tested out the highest FPS by recording to an external HD connected by eSATA since the mac client has an automatic disable feature if the write speed isn't high enough(~70mb/s) and I can only record up to 20fps at my resolution of 1920x1200. Anything faster and I'd need something like WD Raptors or SSD's in RAID0