Whats slowing me down?

Skillmister · 26 Apr 2010 at 17:18

Trying to record on MW2 using fraps. When i start recording my fps drops from ~90 to under 30, making it pretty hard to play.

Specs:

Phenom II X2 unlocked to X4 @ 3GHz
6GB RAM
ASUS M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G
ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB

Tried recording to both my 320GB Samsung f1 and my 1TB f3 but makes no difference.

Any ideas on what it is holding me back?

GeneralJohnny · 26 Apr 2010 at 17:29

I think fraps drops the FPS down to the speed it is recording at, you can change the FPS in the movie section.

Liampope · 26 Apr 2010 at 17:29

Skillmister said:
Any ideas on what it is holding me back?

Yep - probably the fact that you're poor PC is trying to write a mahoosive video file at the same time as playing

. Not sure if there's much you can do about it to be honest. SSD might help but i wouldn't know for sure.

smogsy · 26 Apr 2010 at 17:33

GeneralJohnny said:
I think fraps drops the FPS down to the speed it is recording at, you can change the FPS in the movie section.

you are correct.

if you change fraps FPS to say 60FPS you will get 60FPS in game.

if you want to get around this there is one way.

Record using Steam's Record function, it records each persons player points. once recorded play it back & set fraps to record.

that way when you play you get 90FPS+ so no lag and the recording will be 30FPS & a good size.

Skillmister · 26 Apr 2010 at 17:37

Liampope said:
Yep - probably the fact that you're poor PC is trying to write a mahoosive video file at the same time as playing .

I figured that

Ah thanks, i'll give that a go. Smogsy how do i use Steam record?

Skillmister · 26 Apr 2010 at 19:53

Gave recording at 60fps a try and it put me down to around 40-50 ingame. Now everything on the recording looks stupidly quick the the sound is out of sync

Guess i'll leave it till i can get a capture card and record on xbox.

Temi_D · 26 Apr 2010 at 20:37

the latest version of fraps (assuming you paid for it) Lets you playt at a higher fps that what you are recording at

oli356 · 26 Apr 2010 at 20:45

Also remember to record at half-size

Well i have to anyway

Temi_D · 26 Apr 2010 at 21:39

Also, It is better to record fraps on a different HDD to the one your system is using. I use it to record videos (all at 30fps) at 1080p and 3840x1080. Read/write speeds are 200MB/s+ so if you have a slow HDD or use the same one your system is on, playback or even recordings can be very choppy

Skillmister · 26 Apr 2010 at 22:59

Temi_D said:
Also, It is better to record fraps on a different HDD to the one your system is using. I use it to record videos (all at 30fps) at 1080p and 3840x1080. Read/write speeds are 200MB/s+ so if you have a slow HDD or use the same one your system is on, playback or even recordings can be very choppy

I tried that, was exactly the same. Playback is fine however.

Temi do you have any experience with premiere? After chopping my clips up and adding some music i rendered it out and it was terrible quality. Do you have any idea what settings to be using to keep some half decent quality?

Temi_D · 26 Apr 2010 at 23:49

I dont have any experience with it sorry. I use nero 10 for my HD vids and export them as .mp4 (AVC) for the 720p ones I use a bitrate of 3-4MB/s and 6-8MB/s for the 1080p. At those settings its hard to tell the difference between the original and exported one but its still possible

Skillmister · 27 Apr 2010 at 00:29

OK cheers anyway

mast3r · 27 Apr 2010 at 10:43

Fraps = pretty poor.
Steam = Great but a bit lower sound quality (If you want sound)
Xfire = Poor quailty
CamSudio = Fraps issues found.