WoW and FRAPS - Page 7

Illundai · 06/02/09, 7:42 AM

Originally Posted by Nynx

Well, besides digging up an old post, i would like to know what im doing wrong here or what it is actually. First time im rendering a movie, so please, bare with me...

- My rig is a Core 2 Quad with 6gb RAM and a Nvidia 7900 GTX and using Windows 7 RC1 atm.

Just frapsed a yogg kill for the guild and atm, i'm done with my project on vegas and so on, so, im trying to render it on a WMV 9 customized setup, with a 1680x1052 resolution.
The problem i'm having here is that, when im about to render my movie, it just crashes at 2% saying that the program has stopped working...

Now, anyone got any idea why's this happening ? Is the whole movie files in the project too long that it "bugs" vegas ? Is it the setup that i chose for it to render ?

I can change the setup without any problem, but i only want full and best quality...and being this my first project, i was influenced by some "how to render in HD" vids on youtube...so, if anyone got any tips, they're all welcome !

Anyways, back to my problem.... first time i rendered (was playing wow), it crashed, second time (was playing wow) it passed 2%, was on 5% when i cancel it because i was having some breakdown ingame and thought i would render it later on ....but after that, it just crashes every single time on 2%...

Any tips ?

I fixed this by toning down the resolution of the output file. Sucks, but at least it worked.

RA|Relay · 06/07/09, 3:47 PM

Im kinda in the same boat, For what my rig is it should be a HELL of alot better then it is

Intel Core2 Duo E8500 3.16ghz
6gig OCZ
500gig HDD ( I save all my FRAPS to a 500gig External )
3x Geforce GTX 280 OCed

The the thing is wow only runs at 60fps with this and when i fraps drops to 30fps

chaud · 06/07/09, 3:55 PM

Are you FRAPSing at 30fps? You do realize FRAPSing drops you to whatever FPS you set it to?

RA|Relay · 06/07/09, 4:04 PM

i had fraps set to 100fps

chaud · 06/07/09, 4:20 PM

Try saving to your main drive instead, turn off vsync, or OC your processor.

Bluerose · 06/08/09, 2:05 PM

Originally Posted by Nynx

Well, besides digging up an old post, i would like to know what im doing wrong here or what it is actually. First time im rendering a movie, so please, bare with me...

- My rig is a Core 2 Quad with 6gb RAM and a Nvidia 7900 GTX and using Windows 7 RC1 atm.

Just frapsed a yogg kill for the guild and atm, i'm done with my project on vegas and so on, so, im trying to render it on a WMV 9 customized setup, with a 1680x1052 resolution.
The problem i'm having here is that, when im about to render my movie, it just crashes at 2% saying that the program has stopped working...

Now, anyone got any idea why's this happening ? Is the whole movie files in the project too long that it "bugs" vegas ? Is it the setup that i chose for it to render ?

I can change the setup without any problem, but i only want full and best quality...and being this my first project, i was influenced by some "how to render in HD" vids on youtube...so, if anyone got any tips, they're all welcome !

Anyways, back to my problem.... first time i rendered (was playing wow), it crashed, second time (was playing wow) it passed 2%, was on 5% when i cancel it because i was having some breakdown ingame and thought i would render it later on ....but after that, it just crashes every single time on 2%...

Any tips ?

It's possible your Vegas project has corrupted at some point. When this has happened to me I usually just copy all files in the time line and paste into a brand new clean project.

Darktruth · 06/26/09, 1:08 AM

Always attempt to encode fraps in a progressive (480p, 720p, 1080p) friendly format if your going to work with Adobe Premiere.

480p = [dont remember]x480
720p = 1280x720
1080p = 1920x1080

If you record in 1280x1024 for some reason take a program like VirtualDub and cut off a total of 304pixels from the top/bottom/both to make it 720p format.

Hints to improve your fraps:
Set fraps to 23.976fps or 30.000fps or 60.000fps (all progressive friendly frame rates, 23.976 is the most recognized)
Enabling VSync in WoW will help keep your frame rate steady(er)
Use 2+ Hard drives. Do not save your fraps to the same drive as your \World of Warcraft folder aka.. Fraps to C:\, WoW on D:\

Encoding a 720p file should end up around 40mb/1min if you want to keep your lines straight.
If your using MeGUI, make sure to enable cartoon mode.

Redbeard · 06/26/09, 6:46 AM

Is there a way to narrow frapsing to rendered area only? I have dual-monitor setup with rendered area to the left screen - which is the only part I want frapsed.

över · 07/04/09, 5:37 PM

I'm curious. Does anyone know a solution to the "Fraps makes my in game FPS unreasonably low" issue that is being discussed? My system specs are Intel E8400 Oced to 3.6g(dual core), 4gig ddr2 800, MSI Geforce 260gtx, 7200rpm hard drives and I fraps/play at 1680x1050 using Vista64. I have found that recording to a dedicated hard drive does give me an in game fps improvement during recording. My issue is strange though. I have Fraps set to record at 30fps, during intense fights my in game fps is usually around 10 while frapsing(over 100 when not), but the resulting video still comes out at 30fps. It turns out to be perfectly smooth unlike the play which is noticeably choppy. Somehow, I'm able to play well at 10fps but its is far from pretty.

Any ideas? I see people with similar hardware are able to Fraps and play at 30fps which would really be nice. I've tried setting core 0 to WoW and the other to Fraps and it seems to work worse that way. I also fraps without recording sound.

Lysandro · 07/08/09, 5:08 AM

Wow, nice Thread xD. A Hint from me, I used Fraps a long time, making movies from Dark Age of Camlot. But I found a better Recoder Software called GameCam found here. It's cheaper and on my machine it's faster than Fraps and the most favorit feature: It can record and compress it with Divx so the video are much smaller on the HDD.

Just a hint, nothing more.

Moggle · 07/13/09, 5:10 AM

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 · 07/14/09, 3:41 PM

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 · 07/15/09, 5:54 PM

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 · 10/27/09, 12:55 AM

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 · 11/08/09, 10:29 AM

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...