FRAPS

[ACE]

If anybody knows anything about Fraps please help me on this, why does it lag when I try to make a movie during a flight?

[Skuzzy]

FRAPS uses up quite a bit of resources to produce its files.

[The Fugitive]

Your better off filming the flight with the AH film set-up, and then using FRAPS to capture from the film.

[Chalenge]

From the results I have seen Skuzzy and Fugitive are more than right. Even with the fastest of everything hardware wise you will get a really strong hit when FRAPS is kicked on.

[WWhiskey]

I have not tried it in game in a good while, but i have noticed that when using it with my films,, it really takes a big hit if you have icons on! it skips and drags a good bit with them on and runs almost smooth with them off!


just an FYI!

[ACE]

Could anyone tell me how to use Fraps with AH film?

[Lusche]

Could anyone tell me how to use Fraps with AH film?

that's done by recording the flight in AH with alt-r, and then you can play that film in the AH film viewer and capture with fraps from there.

[ImADot]

When I use Fraps in-game, I force the FPS from my normal 60 down to 30; that helps a lot.  You could also try recording half-size as well.  I would also suggest having a dedicated hard drive just for recording the raw footage, although it probably isn't necessary unless you have a RAID array (I do) and recording to a RAID sux.

But, as has been said, it takes a lot of system resources and CPU cycles to do its thing.

[The Fugitive]

that's done by recording the flight in AH with alt-r, and then you can play that film in the AH film viewer and capture with fraps from there.

I was going to add that you should capture at 30 FPS to help, but Imadot beat me to it.

[Ack-Ack]

The latest version of FRAPS doesn't hog as many resources as previous versions but I personally prefer Camtasia as it's far more robust than FRAPS.

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[Chalenge]

Wait a minute... Camtasia? For recording a video game? I guess I have spent more for game hardware but you have to do something else with this software to make it worthwhile... right? 

[Ack-Ack]

Wait a minute... Camtasia? For recording a video game? I guess I have spent more for game hardware but you have to do something else with this software to make it worthwhile... right? 

Since I use Camtasia at work to create training videos for our operation tools or to capture video from our game to make trailers, I managed to snag a free license for myself to use at home.

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