Recently in my guild I have been trying to record some newer boss kills.

My speccs are:

Intel Q6600 2.4 Ghz Quadcore,
2 GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS
Vista 64bit
One 300GB sized HDD

So, as most of the people posting their problem here, I'm experiencing massive framedrops too.

I tried the trick where you dedicate core 0,1 to WoW and the others to FRAPS, that didn't work.
I don't have SLI, so that's out of the question too.
And I have the latest version of FRAPS.

I'm running at the highest settings, 1400*900.

Are there any other things I could do?

Thanks in advance.

I thought I had... I'll have to look around some more I guess.

edit: I checked in task manager, and I am running the 64bit version. (Task manager says: fraps64.dat)

I got a cheap copy of Adobe Premier Elements through my sister-in-law, who works there. I'm wondering if anyone has much experience using this as a Fraps-recording editor, and can comment on whether its worth continuing to learn how to use, or just switching to various freeware.

I've managed to figure out how to get pretty good quality WMA9 video out of it, but so far adding titles and stuff has been a real pain in the ass. Every time I try to add some fade in/out text on black at the start, it overlays it onto the start of my video. Once it does that, I can't figure out how to strip it back off, short of mashing undo a few times. Also, once I make a title item, and its displayed on the project media list, I can't figure out how to go back and edit it.

Any suggestions for finding a tutorial for typical WoW-movie-related editing in Premier Elements?

I really found that APE was very cumbersome to use. I didn't like it at all. I had a free version I was trying when I was deciding what program to use. Finally went with Sony Vega, I'm happy with it overall. Takes a tad of a learning to figure out all the bells and whistles, but the final product is worth it.

I've been pulling my hair out..

Been capturing footage in full size and the raw file comes out to be looking as it does when I play. Looks great and all. When I record in half-size however I can't make out what's beeing typed, and it's very pixelish everything (makes for shit movies ofc) - is it meant to be this way? That the picture quality decrease this much just because you lower the size? (the diffrence is huge).

Any help here would be godly.

I'm afraid it is, yes. If you lower the resolution in WoW itself the game's rendering engine will downsize and filter all your UI elements for you (such as the font, the buttons, unit frames, etc...), using algorithms like anti-aliasing to ensure you can still read the text and make out crisp edges of UI elements.
However, due to performance limitations, FRAPS only performs a very very simplistic downscaling, most likely (without knowing the actual process, but its a pretty good bet) just taking a 2x2 pixel area and approximate it's color contents to a single pixel. You can imagine what that does to fonts / text.

So yes, if you let FRAPS do the downsizing you'll only get results like that. A possible workaround, if you can afford recording at full size, is to let your video editing software (or VirtualDub) take care of the downsizing. They usually offer much more sophisticated algorithms (Bi- or Trilinear filtering, etc), the resulting text display should be much more crisp.

Thanks for the informative answer seul.

I can afford to do it fullsize but it's really not going to be beautiful to watch because it'll run around 10-20FPS with some arse drops probably, and resizing my UI for a diffrent resolution will be a pita, but it looks like that will be my only option for now.

Thanks again

When you fraps in say 40 FPS, Fraps throttles your WoW to exactly 40 FPS. Is it somehow possible to fraps in 20 FPS, but let WoW run in not 20 but 40 oder 60 FPS? I ask because I often need to fraps with a lot of FPS to ensure a smooth gameplay but that consumes too much disk space over time..

I haven't heard of any settings or mod that can make this happen, but if you set it to 30 your game play should be smooth as silk if you have the power and a decently clean, defragged hard drive.

Hey, I'm pretty new to fraps / virtualdub and all, so hopefully these 2 problems I'm having are simpler than I think.

First, when I try to playback the raw OR encoded (with XviD) fraps videos, it goes in super slow motion, half speed or there-around in WMP. Same with VLC although it won't play the raw ones.

Also, when I try to encode in DivX format, I get the following error :

An out-of-bounds memory access (access violation) occurred in module 'DivX'...
...writing address 00000000...
...while compressing frame 0 from 04c40020 to 03d10020 using codec "DivX® 6.8.4 Codec (2 Logical CPUs)" (w32videocodecpack.cpp:694)...
...while running thread "Processing" (thread.cpp:159).

Any idea whats going on / what to fix?

They appear to have fixed the FRAPS / SLI bug with 2.9.5.

I just Frapsed M'uru fullscreen w/ sound at 30 fps and was getting 25-30 ingame.

System is overclocked E8400, 4 GB DDR800, 750i motherboard, dual 8800 GT, Vista Home Premium 64, and was recording onto my system drive (which I understand is bad).