Looking for FRAPS advice

[PFactorDave]

So, I bought a copy of FRAPS.  Problem is I get nasty little stutters when flying while fraps is running.  Looking for advice on the settings etc that I can change to help.  Any advice?

[SlipKnt]

Just record your film through AH film viewer with Fraps off.

Use the Fraps when viewing film.  Then, you can also select different angles, etc...

Another option is to turn off more things runnin gin your background. 

Hope that helps!

 

[Rob52240]

Film viewer is the only solution I have as well.  I take a noticable Frame Rate hit whenever I use it during gameplay.

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unless you have a extreme high end system you wont get rid of that.

[ImADot]

Just record your film through AH film viewer with Fraps off.

But the only way to get recorded head movement if you use TIR is to FRAPS during the game. Also, there have been (maybe still are) issues with bombsights and task groups while playing back in the film viewer.

One thing to try to minimize stutters during in-game recording is to record half-screen size or force FRAPS to record in 30fps instead of 60. Also, it might help to record to a separate hard disk instead of your system disk.

[Skuzzy]

When you consider a computer with a 1920x1080 display is having almost 480MB/second of data read from it by FRAPS, it is a wonder the game can write to the video card at all.

60 times a second, there is 8MB of data being pulled from the video card.  When that data is being copied from the video card, the game cannot write any data to the video card.

You could cut down the resolution, to reduce the amount of data, which should also help to smooth things out or as Imadot stated, reduce the frames/sec FRAPS is using.

[PFactorDave]

But the only way to get recorded head movement if you use TIR is to FRAPS during the game. Also, there have been (maybe still are) issues with bombsights and task groups while playing back in the film viewer.

One thing to try to minimize stutters during in-game recording is to record half-screen size or force FRAPS to record in 30fps instead of 60. Also, it might help to record to a separate hard disk instead of your system disk.

This is exactly why I wanted to use fraps, because of TrackIR.  I hadn't thought of writing to a second hard drive, I will try everything suggested.

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This is exactly why I wanted to use fraps, because of TrackIR.  I hadn't thought of writing to a second hard drive, I will try everything suggested.

you can also go offline and get some views..... black outs and red outs and edit them in.....

I have just a 2.9 GHZ so I could never get it to run smoothly no matter what I did.

[FLS]

You can simulate TIR head movement in the film viewer using padlock.

[BoilerDown]

I did a little bit of research on this issue a while back, here's the thread:  http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,302943.0.html