Fraps help.

[RANCID_TIM_NZ]

Hi there,

I am having some trouble with recording in game video, mostly with games such as BF3 and DayZ.
Firstly, when I record, my frames drop to around 20-25 FPS, secondly, when I review the video the first 10 seconds or so are fine, but after that it looks like my frames are at 1FPS,
like the video is skipping.


I have video capture set to 50FPS, full size, and both windows sound and mic sound recorded. I have tried half size and various different capture settings.

My PC specs are:

ASUS P8Z77-V Intel Z77 DDR3 SLI+Crossfire Wi-Fi PCI-E3.0 LGA1155
      
Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge 3.50Ghz 8MB 95W LGA1155

Corsair Hydro Series H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
   
Mushkin Blackline FrostByte 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1600
      
Sapphire Radeon HD7950 OC 3GB GDDR5    

I have in game settings maxed in BF3 and pretty much the same in DayZ.

Any help would be much appreciated,
Cheers,
Tim

[mycoolcar]

Are you using the most recent version of fraps?

[RANCID_TIM_NZ]

3.03 is what I got. I'll try getting a newer version, chur bra

[RANCID_TIM_NZ]

It's no way near as bad, but its still there every now and again. Thanks for your help all the same.

[Emrico1]

Try half size. Maybe max setting are taxing at full res?

[mycoolcar]

You could afford to lower the recorded fps to 30 too. Video looks fine at 24fps, so 30 is plenty. See if it helps.

I run 30fps, half res (half of 1900x1200) on an i7 920, 6gb ram, 2x580's and don't get lag.

Also, try writing the video to a hard drive that is not being read from for the game. I.e. run game from C drive, have fraps writing videos to a separate storage drive.

[RANCID_TIM_NZ]

Awesome thanks, yea it seems to run absolutly fine on half size, recording at 30 fps. I am now writing to my external which seems to do the trick. Cheers for the help.

[Emrico1]

Awesome thanks, yea it seems to run absolutly find on half size, recording at 30 fps. I am now writing to my external which seems to do the trick. Cheers for the help.

External would be slower than the local drive I'd think. Try 50 (I hate 30 fps).

[RANCID_TIM_NZ]

External would be slower than the local drive I'd think. Try 50 (I hate 30 fps).

My external is USB 3.0, it seems to be ok. I am recording at 60fps now and its smooth as tits. So I'm happy. Cheers.

[Emrico1]

My external is USB 3.0, it seems to be ok. I am recording at 60fps now and its smooth as tits. So I'm happy. Cheers.

Oh nice!

[Xenolightning]

Tits.

[The Demon Lord]

Tits.