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.
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.
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)
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!
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...
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%
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.
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.
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:
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
I am trying to run fraps on specific cores. Its easy enough to open task manager and set them manually for fraps but it is a tad tedious.
I have added this to the shortcut for fraps to specify which cores it should use. Problem is I cant get it to set 2 or more cores it only ever picks one. I use an i7 so affinity 192 should be 4th and 8th core but when using the code it only uses the 8th core. Anyone know what numbers should be used?
I am trying to run fraps on specific cores. Its easy enough to open task manager and set them manually for fraps but it is a tad tedious.
I have added this to the shortcut for fraps to specify which cores it should use. Problem is I cant get it to set 2 or more cores it only ever picks one. I use an i7 so affinity 192 should be 4th and 8th core but when using the code it only uses the 8th core. Anyone know what numbers should be used?
192 would be core 8 and 7.
Remember, basically it's a binary mask.
CPU8
CPU7
CPU6
CPU5
CPU4
CPU3
CPU2
CPU1
128
64
32
16
8
4
2
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Simply add up the numbers for which processors to use (represented by a "1" in the third row).
Regarding "start.exe", I'm not entirely sure and - lacking enough CPU cores - have no way to test it, but I've read that it uses a hexadecimal representation, so try writing 192 in hex, which is C0 (easily converted with the windows calculator).
Last edited by sp00n : 11/26/09 at 5:03 AM.
Reason: dang, forgot to click save changes yesterday
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 had the same problem myself, and I simply solved it by turning off recording sound in FRAPS and recording Ventrilo separately (with the in-built record function in Ventrilo). You then have to use some other software such as Audacity to transfer the Ventrilo sounds to mp3 format, so it's a little more work, but at least it's a solution.
@ kr0n1x: This isn't proper forum for your question, but your entire computer is outdated and it would do you well to update every piece.
Just thought I'd throw this out there, when Fraps is recording at a set FPS (You pick the FPS to use in Fraps) it will reduce your game's FPS to that limit, this means that the video will show at that FPS as well but can incur bad results.
I find that putting a custom FPS in at a number that your PC could never possibly reach (100 FPS for me) makes not only the game run smooth whilst recording but makes the recording look smoother as well. This is because the FPS isn't bottlenecked and can fluctuate as much as your PC needs it to.
I have no problem recording and what not. However I have never made a video(Yet!). I have one recorded and would like to upload it. I been trying to use a few programs but I am not having much luck.
For starters I tried using Cyberlink Powerdirector and made my movie. I went to encode it and I cannot find anyplace to set a custom resolution. So my videos always had hard coded bars.
I also have downloaded Vegas and tried a few things. I was able to specify my resolution however still had bars.
I recorded at 1680x1050 Widescreen resolution. I tried to keep the aspect ratio but it wouldn't let me in Vegas(Says frame size not available or something). So I tried 1600x1024 and that wasn't allowed either. My next time I tried 1440x900 and it started working. However after viewing the file it still had hard coded bars on the sides of the video.
How can I get rid of these bars? I am unsure of what resolution I should go with to still be able to keep a decent size view area and good quality. Like I said, I am new at this so pardon any misuse of terminology!
I have no problem recording and what not. However I have never made a video(Yet!). I have one recorded and would like to upload it. I been trying to use a few programs but I am not having much luck.
For starters I tried using Cyberlink Powerdirector and made my movie. I went to encode it and I cannot find anyplace to set a custom resolution. So my videos always had hard coded bars.
I also have downloaded Vegas and tried a few things. I was able to specify my resolution however still had bars.
I recorded at 1680x1050 Widescreen resolution. I tried to keep the aspect ratio but it wouldn't let me in Vegas(Says frame size not available or something). So I tried 1600x1024 and that wasn't allowed either. My next time I tried 1440x900 and it started working. However after viewing the file it still had hard coded bars on the sides of the video.
How can I get rid of these bars? I am unsure of what resolution I should go with to still be able to keep a decent size view area and good quality. Like I said, I am new at this so pardon any misuse of terminology!
Sony Vegas likes to keep the ratio at 16:9 even when you have the project settings at your resolution. After you put the clip into the timeline, right click and go all the way down to properties; there's an option for "Maintain Aspect Ratio" and uncheck it.
For people using Vegas 9, what codec and setting are you using, and how big are your files roughly?
I've tried using the guide posted on page one from warcraftmovies, but with vegas 9 the settings are different. I am also on 64bit Win7, so for the xvid codec I had to download klite to get it to work.
I have a 9 minute video, and after rendering the lowest I could get it was 840 or so mb(This was at only 1024x640). So if anyone can give me a hand with settings and codec, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
I just started playing with Fraps and I like it so far, however I am having an issue with the External Hard Drive. When I have fraps set to save video to the External Hard Drive using a USB, the fraps in game FPS indicator drops to about 25fps, but when I save video to my PC Hard Drive the fps will stay over 50. The only difference to my PC Hard Drive is that it`s using USB and that the External Hard Drive is formatted as fat32 and my pcs is NTSF. I just want to know if anyone has had a similar issue, as I don't want to format my External Hard Drive to NTSF and find that was not the cause of the problem.
I just started playing with Fraps and I like it so far, however I am having an issue with the External Hard Drive. When I have fraps set to save video to the External Hard Drive using a USB, the fraps in game FPS indicator drops to about 25fps, but when I save video to my PC Hard Drive the fps will stay over 50. The only difference to my PC Hard Drive is that it`s using USB and that the External Hard Drive is formatted as fat32 and my pcs is NTSF. I just want to know if anyone has had a similar issue, as I don't want to format my External Hard Drive to NTSF and find that was not the cause of the problem.
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Originally Posted by 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:
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
Thanks Kiyoka, Don't know how i missed that >< I'm going to drop the WD external hard drive and go with a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA internal drive, should let me recode in higher fps with less lag. anyone using a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA drive? that can give me some feedback on it?
07/15/09, 6:54 PM
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