WoW and FRAPS - Page 9

Domey · 01/17/10, 8:17 PM

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.

Melbuframa · 01/25/10, 3:50 PM

I run Vegas 9 and compress using the DivX Codec with the following settings as guidelines

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In the first shot you just want to set the output resolution to whatever you recorded Fraps at so in your case 1024*640.

I normally run 1680*1050 and a 9 min video comes out at ~500mb with these settings.

blitzseed · 01/25/10, 5:40 PM

Greetings;

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.

Kiyoka · 01/28/10, 6:32 AM

Originally Posted by blitzseed

Greetings;

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.

see:

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:

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

blitzseed · 01/28/10, 1:19 PM

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?

curlyandrson · 01/31/10, 9:59 PM

Just bought a new comp that is more than capable of frapsing in raids, but I've got an issue that it'll studder about once every 4-5 seconds. Then it comes out of the studder, and resumes recording at 50fps. Anyone else have that issue and get it resolved?

My computer's specs:

amd II quad core 955 @ 3.2ghz
ati radeon factory OC'd 4890 @ 950/1050
1 tb hd @ 7200rmp
8 gb ddr2

Monitor and game resolution 1920x1080

I've tried full screen windowed / full screen. vsync on and off, results aren't changing much.

Thanks in advance

blitzseed · 01/31/10, 11:01 PM

Are you saving the video to the same drive that you are playing wow off?

curlyandrson · 02/01/10, 3:24 AM

Originally Posted by blitzseed

Are you saving the video to the same drive that you are playing wow off?

Yeah, and its my only drive

Would it help if I limited certain cores in my processor to fraps/wow?

blitzseed · 02/01/10, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by curlyandrson

Yeah, and its my only drive

Would it help if I limited certain cores in my processor to fraps/wow?

Don't know if that would help or not, you may want to look at getting a second drive for your videos like a 360-500g they don't cost alot any more less then 100$ maybe look at a Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB

Lyssa · 02/02/10, 12:23 AM

Nevermind, problem solved.

blitzseed · 02/21/10, 6:39 PM

hello, i need some help, can anyone tell me why Fraps saves in 3.90gb parts?

• Heavenly · 02/21/10, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by blitzseed

hello, i need some help, can anyone tell me why Fraps saves in 3.90gb parts?

A computer techie can describe this in more detail but most formatted HD's have a 4GB per file limit.

Jophess · 02/21/10, 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by blitzseed

hello, i need some help, can anyone tell me why Fraps saves in 3.90gb parts?

The .avi files Fraps creates are limited to 4gb in order to keep compatibility with all editing software.

Cronax · 02/23/10, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by Heavenly

A computer techie can describe this in more detail but most formatted HD's have a 4GB per file limit.

Originally Posted by Jophess

The .avi files Fraps creates are limited to 4gb in order to keep compatibility with all editing software.

For a little additional info, a normal 'windows' hard drive is often formatted in FAT32, which limits the maximum size of files (not folders mind, just files) to under 4GB. In order to be able to use larger files your hard drive will need to be formatted as NTFS, however because of the limitation on FAT32 many programs are built to automatically make sure their files don't exceed 4GB.

In this case though, it sounds as if your hard drive is indeed formatted as FAT32. In order to change this, unfortunately you are forced to erase all data from the drive. The best option may be to add another disk drive and format the new drive as NTFS.

Dezarro · 02/23/10, 2:36 PM

Recording Speed

Any footage of WoW that I record seems like it plays back at double speed. Does this have something to do with the FPS settings? I have FRAPS set to record at 30 FPS because I heard that was the normal setting for high quality video producing.

If, for example WoW runs at 60FPS should I be recording at 60 FPS and just encode at the lower 30 FPS? Any help would be appreciated. Manually adjusting the speed setting in sony vegas movie studio is a pain

Thanks