FRAPS sux

Xcept1 · 20 Sep 2006 at 15:38

Is there any alternative to FRAPS for recording your games?

Artheas · 20 Sep 2006 at 15:40

What do you feel is so bad about it?

Supercow · 20 Sep 2006 at 15:44

I also looked for an alternative, but it's by far the best and most robust.
I had issues with fps lag, then i reinstalled fraps and all was well again

Mekrel · 20 Sep 2006 at 15:47

Some game engines have demo records, and a screenshot capture command which will take 30 screenshots a second for a 30FPS video.

Take up a lot of hard disk space, but you can then do a batch resize in a image editing program and then encode with divx and you get a high quality video, better than anything fraps could make.

dun · 20 Sep 2006 at 16:16

Fraps is by far the best program i have found for recording in games without the demo feature. Try a couple of the free alternatives and you will realise how good it is.

Devlish · 20 Sep 2006 at 16:21

would a dual core help with fraps framerates? run game on one etc.?

Sirrel Squirrel · 20 Sep 2006 at 16:33

Sleepless said:
would a dual core help with fraps framerates? run game on one etc.?

2nd hard drive makes a huge difference, have the game on one drive and record to another, get decent fps, I managed to have a solid 25fps on fear doing it with an additional drive, that doesn't sound good but it's the norm for videos and looks good.

Steve09 · 20 Sep 2006 at 16:35

FRAPS is good, only downside is it gets a bit choppy when recording in game.
The video's are then huge file size's, but just running through Windows Movie Maker reduces the size from 500MB to 6MB or so

The quality is reduced though

How can I encode my videos wth DivX?
So the file is a small size and the quality is good...

Supercow · 20 Sep 2006 at 16:40

Ahhh yes, the best thing to do is, record to a different hard drive than where the game is installed to

Steve09 · 20 Sep 2006 at 16:52

sup3rc0w said:
Ahhh yes, the best thing to do is, record to a different hard drive than where the game is installed to

I do record to a my second Hard Drive...

iMacMart · 20 Sep 2006 at 16:59

I only use FRAPS??

Foehammer2003 · 20 Sep 2006 at 17:06

I think FRAPS is great, and always get a good copy when recording a games, only thing i dont like about it is the price tag, $37 for what essentially is a very simple program is a tad too high for my liking. If they lowered the price by at least half then i would have no hesitation in paying.

$37! I mean there cant be any overheads surely, a server and some bandwidth lol, i can knock up a similar site in a day, probably less lol

Anyway regardless FRAPS is the best!

VeNT · 20 Sep 2006 at 17:08

Sirrel Squirrel said:
2nd hard drive makes a huge difference, have the game on one drive and record to another, get decent fps, I managed to have a solid 25fps on fear doing it with an additional drive, that doesn't sound good but it's the norm for videos and looks good.

needs to be on a different IDE channle if its IDE too (as reading to and from two drives on one cable can be slow)

Caged · 20 Sep 2006 at 17:55

Foehammer2003 said:
$37! I mean there cant be any overheads surely, a server and some bandwidth lol, i can knock up a similar site in a day, probably less lol

Let me know when your half-price FRAPS competitor is available please.

Puppetmaster · 20 Sep 2006 at 18:12

ive got 2 sata hard drives in raid 0, fraps recording seems fairly good on pc my. i might have to see how good it is on fear.

Chaos · 20 Sep 2006 at 18:32

Could try gamecam

http://www.planetgamecam.com/

Memphis · 20 Sep 2006 at 18:34

It's nice to see the OP returning to the thread to further the discussion, maybe to elaborate on his single line post that contradicts the feelings of many on this board.

This leads me to believe that the only thing he thinks "sux" about FRAPS is the performance hit it gives and hasn't worked out that recording demos and then FRAP'ing them is the better way to use the program.

Upon trying any of the suggestions posted here, and finding the same problem, he will no doubt come back proclaiming they "sux" as well.

sunlitsix · 20 Sep 2006 at 18:39

stevechapman said:
How can I encode my videos wth DivX?
So the file is a small size and the quality is good...

i use fraps/DivX encoders and a program called virtual dub for the game vids ive got on youtube.
has loads of different options for video and sound, and will encode into Divx format when DivX codecs are installed

Foehammer2003 · 20 Sep 2006 at 19:00

Caged said:
Let me know when your half-price FRAPS competitor is available please.

uh.... heh....

paradigm · 20 Sep 2006 at 20:08

If the game supports in-game recording, I generally record with the game (ie COD2), then use fraps to record the demo. That way I don't have the framerate frop whilst playing, and I get a video in a windows viewable format