FRAPS Kills my framerate :(

n3x · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:28

I tried recording some CS and CS-Source over the weekend but it just kills my silky smooth framerate

Am i doing something wrong? is it just me or is there some kinda fix for this?

Kreeeee · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:29

Record to a different hard drive to your OS and the games installation, but that one's obvious.

JonnyGLC · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:30

I think when you record, fraps actually sets a frame rate limiter or soemthing like that, have a look at the settings to see what it's set at. I think it's 25fps by default.

Stellios · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:33

yes it does lower your FPS. To get your frame rate up you have a couple of choices that i can think of.

1. Record to a differnt hard drive
2. Lower your screen resolution and hope it helps

n3x · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:34

oh ok i thought that setting was just how many fps' it would record at, didnt think it would affect the in game fps tho. Pretty sure its set to 25 so i'll try that but it seems much lower while im playing... more like 15.

I didnt even think about recording to another hdd

i'll give that ago aswell when i get home.

Cheers guys.

EDIT: Just remembered that it recorded nfsmw just fine so shouldnt it be just fine with cs?? and also when the vids are played back they are a lot smoother than when im ingame

it does the same thing if im playing whilst loading the servers list on both CS and Source aswell.

tom_e · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:35

try lowering the resolution fraps is capturing in as well i find this helps

GM@N · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:40

Record a demo (using ingame demo recorder) then use fraps to record the demo while your not playing?

n3x · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:44

genius GM@N! Cheers

HangTime · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:48

You need an insanely fast system to do on-the-fly recording during gameplay without it affecting framerate, I'd say an FX-60 writing to RAID0 raptors at the bare minimum. You also need to turn the resolution right down.

A far superior option is to record a standard in-game demo while playing, and then take video capture from demo playback. This is how all the 'pro' gaming movies are made and means that you don't have to cope with your harddisk being written to 30 times a second and the subsequent lag which accompanies that.

JonnyGLC · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:49

HangTime said:
A far superior option is to record a standard in-game demo while playing, and then take video capture from demo playback. This is how all the 'pro' gaming movies are made and means that you don't have to cope with your harddisk being written to 30 times a second and the subsequent lag which accompanies that.

Aye, that's what i've done when i've needed to record movies

n3x · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:58

HangTime said:
You need an insanely fast system to do on-the-fly recording during gameplay without it affecting framerate, I'd say an FX-60 writing to RAID0 raptors at the bare minimum. You also need to turn the resolution right down.

A far superior option is to record a standard in-game demo while playing, and then take video capture from demo playback. This is how all the 'pro' gaming movies are made and means that you don't have to cope with your harddisk being written to 30 times a second and the subsequent lag which accompanies that.

how comes it works fine with nfsmw then? i can accept a slight drop in fps but somethins just not right with cs.

JonnyGLC · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:59

n3x said:
how comes it works fine with nfsmw then? i can accept a slight drop in fps but somethins just not right with cs.

Because NFS:MW generally is already running at a poor framerate

n3x · 18 Apr 2006 at 16:00

A random name said:
Because NFS:MW generally is already running at a poor framerate

i wouldnt say 40fps was poor

JonnyGLC · 18 Apr 2006 at 16:01

n3x said:
i wouldnt say 40fps was poor

No, it's dire.

n3x · 18 Apr 2006 at 16:07

let just say i wish i got 40fps in oblivion!

Thats a mental 3dmark05 score u've got there btw :eek:

JonnyGLC · 18 Apr 2006 at 16:09

n3x said:
let just say i wish i got 40fps in oblivion!

Thats a mental 3dmark05 score u've got there btw

Thanks

Think i've got the best air cooled score in the world with this card (It's the 256mb Version)

m3csl2004 · 18 Apr 2006 at 16:30

any remember what command you use to record a demo?

JonnyGLC · 18 Apr 2006 at 16:31

m3csl2004 said:
any remember what command you use to record a demo?

What game is it for?

If it's CSS then it's recorddemo <namehere> i think.

Stellios · 18 Apr 2006 at 16:39

for CSS its just 'record <choosename>' without the speechmarks into your console.

aphex · 18 Apr 2006 at 17:00

Go dual core