Elitist Jerks
Register
Blogs
Forums


Go Back   Elitist Jerks » Public Discussion » User Interface and AddOns

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
Old 07/24/08, 10:26 AM   #61
Fujitsi
Glass Joe
 
Human Warrior
 
Boulderfist (EU)
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.

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 07/24/08, 10:31 AM   #62
pinchet
lobstar!!
 
pinchet's Avatar
 
Dwarf Priest
 
Scilla
Someone else in this thread had low FPS issues when he didn't realize there was a 64-bit version and after changing he said his problems were fixed. Are you using the 32-bit version?

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 07/24/08, 10:32 AM   #63
Fujitsi
Glass Joe
 
Human Warrior
 
Boulderfist (EU)
Originally Posted by pinchet View Post
Someone else in this thread had low FPS issues when he didn't realize there was a 64-bit version and after changing he said his problems were fixed. Are you using the 32-bit version?
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)

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 07/24/08, 1:48 PM   #64
 Andeh
The Titleless
 
Andeh
Goblin Rogue
 
No WoW Account
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?

United States Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 07/24/08, 2:36 PM   #65
Ohi
Piston Honda
 
Ohi's Avatar
 
Blood Elf Mage
 
Thunderlord
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.

Last edited by Ohi : 07/25/08 at 12:06 PM.

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 07/24/08, 7:17 PM   #66
slyph
Glass Joe
 
Gnome Rogue
 
Runetotem
Originally Posted by Fujitsi View Post
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 had the same issue, also running 64bit. my fix was to switch the recording destination to another drive. it went from 60fps without fraps to 15fps while using same disk. to 60fps > 45-50 using seperate disk.

I know you mentioned you only have one drive, but maybe invest in a 2nd internal. drives are insanely cheap these days. At least here in the US.

P.S i record in 1920x1200 because anything less looks blurry.. I tried cutting it down to the half mode and its just not to my liking, although the fps drop is almost nonexistent.

Intel Q9300 2.5 Quad
Nvidia 8600 GTS
4GB of RAM
1920x1200

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 07/27/08, 7:26 PM   #67
Kyuki
Piston Honda
 
Kyuki's Avatar
 
Gnome Mage
 
Emerald Dream (EU)
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.

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 07/28/08, 10:00 AM   #68
seul
Von Kaiser
 
seul's Avatar
 
Blood Elf Paladin
 
Arathor (EU)
Originally Posted by Kyuki View Post
is it meant to be this way? That the picture quality decrease this much just because you lower the size? (the diffrence is huge).
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.

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 07/28/08, 3:54 PM   #69
Kyuki
Piston Honda
 
Kyuki's Avatar
 
Gnome Mage
 
Emerald Dream (EU)
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

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 07/29/08, 2:31 AM   #70
Dikij
Glass Joe
 
Tauren Shaman
 
Nera'thor (EU)
Gah... I knew it was going to come down to that. I'm running Vista64-bit. >.<
Nice! You've just solved my problem, i was almost crying after i've seen 5 FPS frapsing on my new computer as well Thanks pall !

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 08/09/08, 5:44 PM   #71
Seife
Von Kaiser
 
Seife's Avatar
 
Troll Priest
 
Gul'dan (EU)
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..

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 08/10/08, 8:23 AM   #72
Bluerose
Von Kaiser
 
Orc Shaman
 
Magtheridon (EU)
Originally Posted by Seife View Post
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.

Last edited by Bluerose : 08/10/08 at 8:28 AM. Reason: Removed some random useless information.

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 08/16/08, 12:13 AM   #73
Furiosa
Off the Deep End
 
Furiosa's Avatar
 
Furi
Orc Death Knight
 
No WoW Account
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?

Canada Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 08/20/08, 4:38 PM   #74
id0
Glass Joe
 
Dwarf Warrior
 
Kael'thas (EU)
hi, i'm looking for an answer to my problem with fraps since 2 days and it seems some of you know fraps well :p

when i use it on wow in 1920x1200 i don't see my actions bar (like it hide ~100 pixels at the bottom) but the movie properties are width 1920 height 1200 ... so it doesn't cut it :o

this prob comes only in this resolution (1920x1080 or 1680x1050 works fine)

does anyone got an idea on what i can do ?

hardware configuration :
Q9450 (Quad 2.66Ghz)
GTX280
2x 500Gb Samsung HD
4Gb DDR3
Vista x64

Offline
Reply With Quote
Old 09/11/08, 12:06 AM   #75
 Andeh
The Titleless
 
Andeh
Goblin Rogue
 
No WoW Account
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).

United States Offline
Reply With Quote
Reply

Go Back   Elitist Jerks » Public Discussion » User Interface and AddOns

Thread Tools

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Old? Fraps of arena-bg pvp from Alpha realm. Rocco Public Discussion 8 10/13/06 3:21 AM