I'm sure most of you have probably twigged this allready, but thought I'd post it up for those that havent.
Unless you have a pretty high spec computer, you'll probably find that if you try to use FRAPS to record a BF2 game with your normal graphics settings, you end up running at about 10 fps which makes for crap looking video. So you lower your settings right down, and you now get 20 fps, but the graphics look shit, so you STILL have crap looking video...
Now, all you need do is simple really, you just need to use battlerecorder (info on using battlerecorder can be found here). Record all your action with battlerecorder, either by creating your own server and recording or by using a server that supports it. Start up FRAPS once you have your battlerecorder file, and play it back, BUT AT 25% SPEED!!!! Fraps will still record at a crappy 10 FPS, but it's recording the action at 1/4 of the real speed. Once its done recording all you need do is put the FRAPS video file through some editing software, and make it play at 4x speed, add your sound, compress it etc... And there you go, you now have a video that looks like the game was running at 40 fps, with all your lovely high graphics settings still in tact!
Just thought I'd throw that out there for all you budding video makers
Unless you have a pretty high spec computer, you'll probably find that if you try to use FRAPS to record a BF2 game with your normal graphics settings, you end up running at about 10 fps which makes for crap looking video. So you lower your settings right down, and you now get 20 fps, but the graphics look shit, so you STILL have crap looking video...
Now, all you need do is simple really, you just need to use battlerecorder (info on using battlerecorder can be found here). Record all your action with battlerecorder, either by creating your own server and recording or by using a server that supports it. Start up FRAPS once you have your battlerecorder file, and play it back, BUT AT 25% SPEED!!!! Fraps will still record at a crappy 10 FPS, but it's recording the action at 1/4 of the real speed. Once its done recording all you need do is put the FRAPS video file through some editing software, and make it play at 4x speed, add your sound, compress it etc... And there you go, you now have a video that looks like the game was running at 40 fps, with all your lovely high graphics settings still in tact!
Just thought I'd throw that out there for all you budding video makers