Choppy capture in Fraps

strikeeagle345 · Post by **strikeeagle345** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:37 am

Hi,

I have been trying to use fraps to recored video in the replay mode. but fraps is so choppy it looks horrible.

my pc specs:
Pentium D 960 (3.6 ghz 4mb l2 cache)
1.5 gb pc4200 ram
300 gb sata hdd 16mb buffer
GeForce 7800 gt oc graphic card

now why is it doing this. with my sys it should recorde fine and not be choppy. lomac settings are at middle range.

please help, because im going to tear my hair out

thanks

Rhino · Post by **Rhino** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:00 am

You should try recording it slowed down, and then speed it up when you put it into your media maker (i.e. Vegas or Windows Movie Maker)

Post by **Lawndart** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:13 am

Fraps writes directly to your harddrive in raw AVI. Slow down the game footage while capturing and increase its playback rate in your editing software later on to real-time once again. Capturing at 15 FPS at half-speed and then speeding up the playback rate 2x will theoretically give you 30 FPS in the video. If you're using SLI and Fraps. Don't! Fraps does not like SLI. Better to use just one graphics card to capture. If you have two separate harddrives (not just two partitions, but two physically different heads that can read and write to the discs, i.e. two harddrives) have Fraps capture the footage and write it to your second harddrive where your OS and other software is not located. This will help alleviate a lot of the stutter and degrading of performance while capturing since one drive will essentially be dedicated to writing the raw AVI file Fraps creates and nothing else! You system specs sound like they should be alright to capture at higher settings. I've got a really beefed up rig and the framerate goes from over 100 FPS to a meager 15 FPS in Lock-On's external views when the Frap engine is running with everything set on high and at the highest AA, AF, vSync and Quality in my graphics card settings (nVidia). So, to sum up... Capture in Slo-Mo and you'll be fine!

strikeeagle345 · Post by **strikeeagle345** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:33 am

how do you slow lomac down? thanks for the insite Thunderbird 6

Post by **Lawndart** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:19 am

For LOMAC use "Ctrl-A" to accelerate time (the info bar (the "Y" key) will tell you the playback rate in the lower right corner) while viewing a track file. Use "Shift-A" to reset the rate back to 1.00 whenever needed. "Alt-A" will slow it down. I typically go through a clip at a very fast pace (up to 100.00x) to the part I need and then hit the reset key, pause and set the playback rate to 0.50x or half-speed, sometimes even 0.25x and then hit "Y" until the info bar disappears. Before starting the track again I get my F11, F2 or F4 view of choice setup and zoomed the way I want it, padlock the desired aircraft by hitting "Keypad-Del" key and get ready to use any zoom or other effects during capture before un-pausing and starting playback again and then once started hitting the Frap key for capture. Always work one view at a time so that you end up with one shot per Frap clip. This gives you the time to "setup" each shot, view keys and more while paused, plus makes for much easier editing since each clip will be of one kind only. How the views and playback works in other games may vary, but generally if there's a playback function use it (!) and if possible slow down the rate whenever you use Fraps to smooth out the video when sped up again in your editing software. Needless to say, you'll be Frapping in slow motion as well, so it will take as much time as you hoped it wouldn't!

strikeeagle345 · Post by **strikeeagle345** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:05 pm

thanks, that answered every question i had.

Tailhook · Post by **Tailhook** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:23 pm

yeah, if you have the newest fraps. it screws up. why the hell is that though? I got a kick*** system but yet my graphics when recording turns to 1-2 fps.... i take it that its something wrong with their software on their part?

lqcorsa · Post by **lqcorsa** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:36 am

Dont know what you guys are talking about

, my Fraps works fine, and it doesn't stutter. Make sure the "30 FPS" is checked inside of fraps!

Burner · Post by **Burner** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:00 am

Make sure you're writing to a different HD than you're running FRAPS and LOMAC on, and that you have lots of free space on the second drive. Running a RAID 0 setup should provide a similar result as well. And as LD said above, make sure SLI is disabled.

Tailhook · Post by **Tailhook** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:28 pm

all previous versions have worked for me but not their newest

. I am CURRENTLY running a Radeon 9550 AGP (256mb 128bit) but its still running like crap. I changed settings and all and it still is happening to me. And no, AGP isnt the problem cause it seems to work great for everything else.

Burner · Post by **Burner** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:04 pm

Man walks into a doctors office and says "Doctor, it hurts when I bend my arms back like this." Doctor stops and thinks and after much pondering says "My opinion as your physician is that you shouldn't try to bend your arm back like that."

Use an older version of FRAPS until the next version is released and the bug is fixed.

P.S. A Radeon 9550 isn't exactly a kickass system, so be sure you're not trying for too high a capture res

Tailhook · Post by **Tailhook** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:35 am

i just downloaded a new version of 2.7.4 and it works great. i love it now, it even records the music your playing in the backround on media player

Toast · Post by **Toast** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:47 am

Man walks into the doctors office and says: 'Doctor, every time I drink a cup of tea I get a stabbing pain in my left eye'. The doctor replies: 'Take out the spoon'.

Thankyou.