My first AH film: Der Kanalkampf - Frame 3

[Fulmar]

Fraps is causing those stutters?

Weird, because I can use fraps for a hour ago, but it's always the same parts of the film that have stutters when recording with fraps.
Yet I never get any stutters when recording while playing the game!

I believe it's the film viewer and not fraps.

I agree.  The AH Film viewer (for me) has always been the source of shuttering or jerkiness like that in the film.

[Krusty]

I only ever have problems in the film viewer displaying sprites/graphics for the first time. If I play through, get the stutter, then rewind and play again it's no longer there (as long as you don't hit stop).

I only get these massive stutters after recording 3-5 fraps clips (unregistered version) and usually it gets progressively worse. I can then close fraps, close the film viewer, restart both, go back to the exact same spot in the film, and record smooth as silk.

Considering this never happens when running the film viewer alone, and that the stutters get progressively worse the more fraps clips I record in a row, I am drawn to the conclusion that it is mostly fraps creating the problem (but also has to do with fraps and ahfilm interaction, perhaps both want/need the same resource?)

[Fulmar]

What version of fraps are you running?  I'm using an older one, 2.8.3 IIRC (full version).  Perhaps its a memory leak limited to your version?

[yanksfan]

Fraps is causing those stutters?

Weird, because I can use fraps for a hour ago, but it's always the same parts of the film that have stutters when recording with fraps.
Yet I never get any stutters when recording while playing the game!

I believe it's the film viewer and not fraps.

I agree, it's the film veiwer, even when useing "camera shots", seems repeated rewinds and moveing thru film along with but not as much, just re-veiwing the film tends to screw the veiwer up and makes it unstable.

i'll get 2 or 3 shots, close AH veiwer, restart it and it's ok, I have never had to restart fraps.

Cutting the film speed helps alot.

Don

[Fulmar]

Actually, now that I went back and watched the film again I am seeing low FPS capture by Fraps (but I did notice Film Viewer stutterness).  Mainly your settings are too high during capture via Fraps/your computer is not fast enough to record with Fraps with at least 30 FPS.

[Krusty]

I don't remember what version I have. I started out with an older one, had the same problem, found out there was a newer version, and upgraded to it, and had the same problem.

[33Vortex]

The AH film viewer has always been buggy. Just viewing films it's not possible to rewind without issues.