Fraps Question

2006-12-17 19:44:55

#1

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|7066|Greenwood, IN

I need to know what would be the best settings for me to take some vids without having major lag.

My PC:
AMD 3800+ AM2
2GB DDR2
7950GT 512MB

My resolution in BF2142 is 1024x768 if you needed to know. +1 for any good advice!

2006-12-17 19:46:20

#2

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7168|67.222.138.85

As low as possible, even with that setup. You just need to experiment, I don't know what constitutes major lag for you.

2006-12-17 19:46:46

#3

CrazeD: Member; +368|7134|Maine

You shouldn't lag with those specs.

Put the fraps at half-size, and on 60FPS.

2006-12-17 19:50:25

#4

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|7066|Greenwood, IN

Well basicly I want to record a whole round and upload it to youtube or something like that.

2006-12-17 19:52:15

#5

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7168|67.222.138.85

Oh well half size you could probably run max settings decently. Full size, not so much. Though again, you won't know until you try.

2006-12-17 19:52:32

#6

LT.Victim: Member; +1,175|7023|British Columbia, Canada

Record with Medium Settings, half size Fraps, and whatever Frame rates you want, I recommend 30 FPS.

2006-12-17 19:55:22

#7

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|7066|Greenwood, IN

Thanks guys

2006-12-17 21:16:47

#8

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|7066|Greenwood, IN

So why does this suck? It looks horrible...

I used so Vegas 6 with fraps.

2006-12-18 05:11:35

#9

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7168|67.222.138.85

What kind of compression did you use?

2006-12-18 05:51:43

#10

CrazeD: Member; +368|7134|Maine

I use Fraps on like 45FPS, half-size, 1024x768 all high settings and I get 30 - 40 FPS. With your specs, you should be able to pull 60+ FPS with Fraps.

2006-12-18 08:01:45

#11

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|7066|Greenwood, IN

ok, what about someone telling me what kind of settings I should use whe using sony vegas 6?

2006-12-18 08:04:27

#12

jimmanycricket: EBC Member; +56|7116|Cambridge, England

just use windows movie maker.

2006-12-18 08:09:18

#13

ncc6206: =BIG= BAD AND UGLY; +36|6940

Youtube usually does a horrible job in their compression making the video graphics look trashy. Try using a different website like filefront and see if it makes a difference. Also, to reduce lag go to a server that utilizes the battlerecorder. Once the round is completed, replay it and record it with fraps.

2006-12-18 08:32:34

#14

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|7066|Greenwood, IN

jimmanycricket wrote:
just use windows movie maker.

How do I got about using that with divx? Cause they always come out in .wmv file extention.

2006-12-18 09:53:56

#15

swedge: Member; +23|6920|haggis hill

convert from wmv to .divx

2006-12-18 13:11:29

#16

CrazeD: Member; +368|7134|Maine

Use xVid encoding.

2006-12-18 13:26:05

#17

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|7066|Greenwood, IN

Can someone tell me how I can take the .avi file that was made by fraps and convert it to what I need to use youtube. And I can't get my sound to work with fraps...

2006-12-18 13:42:15

#18

Greenspan: Fed. Chairman (Ret.); +12|6948

Get that -> http://www.virtualdub.org/
Get divx or xvid (xvid.org or divx.com)
Run VirtualDub, open your video, goto Video -> Compression and select divix or xvid, then goto File -> Save as AVI

It's your compression that's screwing your video. When fraps makes the videos they're uncompressed so they look great but are monster huge, so you have to compress them. If you use a crappy compression scheme your video will look like that. xvid or divx are pretty much the interent standards and do a good job.

You don't have to use virtual dub, Windows Movie Maker and others probably can do the same thing, but I've grown up using Virutal Dub so thats what I know how to do.

Last edited by Greenspan (2006-12-18 13:46:39)

2006-12-18 15:05:26

#19

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|7066|Greenwood, IN

It works great thanks but... I still can't get teh sound to work. I've tried everything. All I hear is a hissing sound.

2006-12-18 23:42:35

#20

An Enlarged Liver: Member; +35|7204|Backward Ass Kansas

Try uninstalling or unplugging your mike - I'll bet you have one - a made a fraps vid the other day but instead of game audio it was me and my friend laughing because I had the mike in. Vids i made before i had a mike worked normal.

2007-01-12 18:23:20

#21

enterprizer: Member; +2|6800|Singapore

so can i say that...
once i'm in the game, i just hit the video-recording shortcut key, using FRAPS, and later go to Community in BF2..

OR
view the saved video..

2007-01-16 22:30:57

#22

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|7066|Greenwood, IN

How does this look guys better?

Before I uploaded it to youtube. Can I get it any better quality before upload?

http://www.digital-sickness.net/temp/test2.avi

Edit: added something

Last edited by Brizzzer (2007-01-16 23:42:34)

2007-01-17 01:49:49

#23

Mad Ad: Member; +178|6972|England, UK

wow, you switch between enemys fast

2007-01-17 07:53:22

#24

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|7066|Greenwood, IN

hehe thats how I play I have a fast reaction time.

2007-01-17 14:04:44

#25

adv3rsary: Member; +28|7176

i got the core 2 duo 6300 EE + 2 gb ddr2 and ati x1800xl... i turn on recording in fraps it drops my frames from 100 to 30 instantly... it's just not the solution for recording videos in bf2

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