Fraps and UT2004

Mojo

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Guys I'm trying to record a few movies with Fraps.

Without fraps running, UT2004 stays at a steady 230fps, but when Fraps starts recording it instantly drops to 19fps and won't budge. I've tried recording other games and have had little to no slowdown on games like STALKER and CNC3. Is there something in UT2004 that screws it up?
 
Fraps lowers the fps to whichever number you set it within fraps.

Open fraps up and then click movies, and set the fps (on the right hand side) to 30fps. Should make the game cap at 30fps when recording, if you set it higher, movies will be all sped up
 
~~Use Dumpframes~~
Your file size will be tiny in comparison and your picture quality will be MUCH better and no performance hit

Make sure demo's are recorded @ 60 fps instead of the standard 30 fps.
U can do this by changing this in the ut2004.ini
NetServerMaxTickRate=30
LanServerMaxTickRate=30

into

NetServerMaxTickRate=60
LanServerMaxTickRate=60

Next thing u need to do is make a bind for your dumpframes:
typ this in console:
set input insert dumpframes start
set input home dumpframes stop

u can chose other keys though (and watch out cause TAM overwrites the Home-key with a menu. So what i do is make 2 different ini's: one for playing and one for recording)

Next thing u need to do is watch your demo and when u want to record u press 'insert'. The framedumping will begin and u'll notice your game will run very slow. That's normal :)
When u want to stop with recording just press 'Home' :)

Then u exit ut2k4 and use Virtualdub
http://www.virtualdub.org/

U open video, select the first .bmp which can be found in the SS-folder (c:/ut2004/screenshots). Virtualdub automaticly selects the other .bmp's.
Save as .avi and u've got yourself a videofile :)

You can play around with all sorts of Codecs in Virtual dub (download themn manually). I prefer Xvid, Divx or h264 (think that's it)
 
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