ZEQ2 : Interactive Anime Experience

Monday, May 01, 2006

Hello I want a program to make movies But not FRAPS its slows the fps on my computer do you know something elseeeeeee!? PLEASE

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Fraps is the only decent one.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Sugar & Cocaine wrote : Hello I want a program to make movies But not FRAPS its slows the fps on my computer do you know something elseeeeeee!? PLEASE

Sounds like you need a new computer, as Morph says it's the only decent one. If your trying to make a Quake3 movie for example and it's giving low fps cause your using fraps, record a demo of the match you take part in, then play the demo in Q3 and set fraps recording sit back and wait.. Thats one exmaple of how you could get round low FPS on Q3, I Dunno about ESF or anything else..

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

[quote="RaiDer

Sounds like you need a new computer, as Morph says it's the only decent one...[/quote]
Not true

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Sugar & Cocaine wrote :

RaiDer wrote : Sounds like you need a new computer, as Morph says it's the only decent one...

Not true

Not true? Unless you're trying to record in a witty resolution then it shouldn't be killing your FPS if it's a half decent computer.

Despite this, real time video processing is an expensive task, in terms of resource consumption, as it's having to write a lot of data on the fly. Accessing the hard drive during gameplay causes a noticable hit, even on modern hardware, constantly writing to the disk will undoubtably slow things down, but then you'd run out of memory awefully quickly if you tried to buffer it all until you finish. This ofcourse isn't taking into account actually handling the frames (e.g. encoding and such) which would hit the processor aswell, which is usually using all it can to run the actual game. Fraps is the best third-party app out there for recording games, but that doesn't mean you should even attempt to record anything over 640x480 and hope for a perfectly playable game (not to mention you shouldn't expect to have much harddrive space left.)

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

A few things to enchance the peformance of fraps is.

1. Do NOT record the sound
2. Set it to 25/30 fps max
3. Resolution 800x600 or lower
4. Have enough ram and faster/big enough HDD
5. Record the game, ingame first, like you can do with Quake 3 or Counter Strike