MSI Afterburner is better than Fraps

Merlin5 · 26 Oct 2011 at 00:48

I never realised till tonight that Afterburner does game video capture. It's better than Fraps, more options for changing framerate. In Fraps, it's difficult to play while it's recording since it drops the framerate drastically. With Afterburner, I increased the framerate to 40fps at half frames and reduced quality to 60% from default 85%. The result is decent enough recording quality with smooth framerate and I barely notice the framerate drop whilst playing. This is version 2.2.0 beta 8, and it records audio too, whereas earlier versions don't, so get this beta if you haven't already.

Crezzlin · 26 Oct 2011 at 00:52

cheers will give it ago

Murray · 26 Oct 2011 at 00:53

70% quality, 45 fps and full frame.

Get maybe 5fps drop at most?

Merlin5 · 26 Oct 2011 at 00:56

Murray said:
70% quality, 45 fps and full frame.

Get maybe 5fps drop at most?

Not sure tbh, I think you'd have to experiment. In F1, I think I dropped about 20 fps from about 59 to 39, but it wasn't detrimental to playing like Fraps is.

L33 · 26 Oct 2011 at 00:59

Dxtory is far better than both for recording in my opinion, barely slows the framerate at all for me on full size and quality.

Merlin5 · 26 Oct 2011 at 01:04

L33 said:
Dxtory is far better than both for recording in my opinion, barely slows the framerate at all for me on full size and quality.

That's interesting, definitely worth a try. Is the download time limited since there's a 'buy' button?

L33 · 26 Oct 2011 at 01:54

Merlin5 said:
That's interesting, definitely worth a try. Is the download time limited since there's a 'buy' button?

I think the trial puts a logo on videos, can't remember for sure now though. Well worth a purchase though, same price as fraps and much better

garsands · 26 Oct 2011 at 02:27

For me Fraps is the better & Afterburner is the worse, all video capture was saved to a SSD.

jak731 · 26 Oct 2011 at 02:54

I discovered this once by accidentally pressing the record button. Took a while of hunting to discover why my ssd was suddenly full

Hotwired · 26 Oct 2011 at 03:00

Fraps is exceptionally good at consuming hard drive space.

Got to 500GB not long ago before deleting the whole folder.

Most of what I record is crap anyway

DirtyJester · 26 Oct 2011 at 08:15

I use http://www.wegame.com/ (click orange d/load client button) and find it has zero impact on game performance while recording and playing ie. no lag

and puts out good quality video with or without sound.

arc@css · 26 Oct 2011 at 09:50

jak731 said:
I discovered this once by accidentally pressing the record button. Took a while of hunting to discover why my ssd was suddenly full

Same here.

Gazanimal · 26 Oct 2011 at 16:18

I use Afterburner too, although I found moving the Save directory in Fraps helps a lot.

Set it to somewhere other than your system drive helps immensely.

~>Dg<~ · 26 Oct 2011 at 16:28

garsands said:
For me Fraps is the better & Afterburner is the worse, all video capture was saved to a SSD.

PESolution · 26 Oct 2011 at 16:57

since getting an SSD fraps recording hardly hits my performance again - but then that may be due to my full new system upgrade also

Murray · 26 Oct 2011 at 17:08

L33 said:
Dxtory is far better than both for recording in my opinion, barely slows the framerate at all for me on full size and quality.

Will give this a go.

pestt · 26 Oct 2011 at 17:09

DirtyJester said:
I use http://www.wegame.com/ (click orange d/load client button) and find it has zero impact on game performance while recording and playing ie. no lag and puts out good quality video with or without sound.

Me too, got it ages ago but it was a bit naff. The updated version is so much better.
I use Afterburner for the diagnostics though.