issue - Bad company 2 with FRAPS

mattyfez

mattyfez

mattyfez

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HI,

Im having an issue making vidoes of Bad company 2 with FRAPS, I run the game at full settings @ 1080 and normally its fine, but with FRAPS recording at the same time, there are momentary large drops in frames, so it will run smoothly for a few secs, then drop doen to single figure frames.

Ive optimised FRAPS a little ie: record at half size, limited to 27? FPS but still get this issue.
I could maybe get away with turning MSAA down in game, maybe a few other settings but I want to retain as much quality as possible ie: maintain the 1080 resolution so i can transcode the finished product to Blu-Ray media.

Im just wondering if theres something else causing the glitching, as I presume there is uber disk/CPU/RAM activity when playing the game on high whilst fraps is also writing a high quality Avi from the game. maybe writing the output from fraps to a non-system HDD would ease some if any bottlenecking?

Im using the PC in my sig if you need the spec.

Any ideas on how to get a better result?


thanks
 
Try using Playclaw.

I've been using FRAPS for years but it always caused frame rate drops or droped them to 30 FPS.

With Playclaw you don't loose much in the way of FPS, you can also dedicate CPU threads/cores to running it.

Used it for the first time last night. Recording TF 2 maxed out and still getting 80 FPS while recording.
 
I find when that happens it's usually something to do with something using your HDD. Check background processes and end as many as you can and see if that helps.
 
Thanks, I think that is part of the issue, I run a fairly striped down system in terms of background apps, pretty much just generic windows tasks and AVG, plus the game and FRAPS... but FRAPS writes mahoosive files to the HDD on the fly, so I was thinking theres maybe a fight over who gets priority, the game or FRAPS, hence the glitching. Im gettin 80-100% usage on all four cores when doing this at the moment...

Not had time to try the other app mentioned above yet, I think ill test FRAPS again but make it write to my second drive and see if that helps at all.
 
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I can also suggest Playclaw.

I've used Fraps a lot, but could never get rid of the slow down, even with a drive dedicated just to record videos.

Playclaw is miles better.
 
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