BF2S Forums Screen recorder liek fraps but!

don't use gamecamlite thats all i can say

damn, you're making the PS3 seem obsolete

You won't beat fraps, but I can give you some healthy advice - record fraps to a seperate HD or you will notice an almost unbearable amount of lag. Also, defrag both drives several times to compact all space before you play  and record.

When I first tried frapsing shit on my main drive (C) while playing BF2 it killed my FPS down to about 5 - playing on 1280x1024. Realizing this wasn't a good idea, I lowered the display to 1024x768 for recording, and set fraps to record to my D drive. I was then able to get a steady 30 FPS recording rate, and lag spikes would drop it down to about 15.

Finally, one thing I noticed about fraps was that my in-game framerate would often be very laggy while I played, but when I later replayed the video, it was actually quite steady near 30 FPS, so it seemed like FRAPs was eating up a lot of resources to fufill its pre-set quota of 30 FPS and then the leftover CPU time was given back to the game. So what I am saying is if you can still play decently in semi-unbearable lag, you can still come out with some nice videos.

You can see some examples here:
http://hosted.filefront.com/CanadaZenmaster

[CANADA]_Zenmaster wrote:

You won't beat fraps, but I can give you some healthy advice - record fraps to a seperate HD or you will notice an almost unbearable amount of lag. Also, defrag both drives several times to compact all space before you play  and record.

When I first tried frapsing shit on my main drive (C) while playing BF2 it killed my FPS down to about 5 - playing on 1280x1024. Realizing this wasn't a good idea, I lowered the display to 1024x768 for recording, and set fraps to record to my D drive. I was then able to get a steady 30 FPS recording rate, and lag spikes would drop it down to about 15.

Finally, one thing I noticed about fraps was that my in-game framerate would often be very laggy while I played, but when I later replayed the video, it was actually quite steady near 30 FPS, so it seemed like FRAPs was eating up a lot of resources to fufill its pre-set quota of 30 FPS and then the leftover CPU time was given back to the game. So what I am saying is if you can still play decently in semi-unbearable lag, you can still come out with some nice videos.

You can see some examples here:
http://hosted.filefront.com/CanadaZenmaster

One of the things why I hate Fraps and also uncompresd video's are just lame as hell
I got 400gig for hard drive and crompassing a match round is not very fun. 30 seconds is already 300MB or something

(want to show my playingstyle so people learn better to play infrantry gun vs gun   

Krysiss wrote:

[CANADA]_Zenmaster wrote:

You won't beat fraps, but I can give you some healthy advice - record fraps to a seperate HD or you will notice an almost unbearable amount of lag. Also, defrag both drives several times to compact all space before you play  and record.

When I first tried frapsing shit on my main drive (C) while playing BF2 it killed my FPS down to about 5 - playing on 1280x1024. Realizing this wasn't a good idea, I lowered the display to 1024x768 for recording, and set fraps to record to my D drive. I was then able to get a steady 30 FPS recording rate, and lag spikes would drop it down to about 15.

Finally, one thing I noticed about fraps was that my in-game framerate would often be very laggy while I played, but when I later replayed the video, it was actually quite steady near 30 FPS, so it seemed like FRAPs was eating up a lot of resources to fufill its pre-set quota of 30 FPS and then the leftover CPU time was given back to the game. So what I am saying is if you can still play decently in semi-unbearable lag, you can still come out with some nice videos.

You can see some examples here:
http://hosted.filefront.com/CanadaZenmaster

One of the things why I hate Fraps and also uncompresd video's are just lame as hell
I got 400gig for hard drive and crompassing a match round is not very fun. 30 seconds is already 300MB or something

(want to show my playingstyle so people learn better to play infrantry gun vs gun   

Like one poster said, you want the impossible. The recordings are uncompressed for two reasons:

1. You can choose what format, dimensions, kbps, audio + video compression on your own for your own purposes, which is GREAT. No proprietary codecs, no set framerates, dimensions etc, and most importantly NO LOSS in graphics, so that you can choose the best Quality/Size ratio you want when it comes to compressing the video.

I suggest recording in half-size in fraps with your overall dimensions on 1024x768 so your halfsize recording only takes up 512xwhatever (less data consumed on ur HD this way but still looks good).

2. If you tried to record everything you see AND compress it at the same time while playing online, you would have such bad lag you'd be lucky to see 1 FPS.

Sounds like you have no idea when it comes to digital video recording...

Homeschtar wrote:

Fraps really isn't that hard to get for free...

TORRENTSPY FTW

[CANADA]_Zenmaster wrote:

Krysiss wrote:

[CANADA]_Zenmaster wrote:

You won't beat fraps, but I can give you some healthy advice - record fraps to a seperate HD or you will notice an almost unbearable amount of lag. Also, defrag both drives several times to compact all space before you play  and record.

When I first tried frapsing shit on my main drive (C) while playing BF2 it killed my FPS down to about 5 - playing on 1280x1024. Realizing this wasn't a good idea, I lowered the display to 1024x768 for recording, and set fraps to record to my D drive. I was then able to get a steady 30 FPS recording rate, and lag spikes would drop it down to about 15.

Finally, one thing I noticed about fraps was that my in-game framerate would often be very laggy while I played, but when I later replayed the video, it was actually quite steady near 30 FPS, so it seemed like FRAPs was eating up a lot of resources to fufill its pre-set quota of 30 FPS and then the leftover CPU time was given back to the game. So what I am saying is if you can still play decently in semi-unbearable lag, you can still come out with some nice videos.

You can see some examples here:
http://hosted.filefront.com/CanadaZenmaster

One of the things why I hate Fraps and also uncompresd video's are just lame as hell
I got 400gig for hard drive and crompassing a match round is not very fun. 30 seconds is already 300MB or something

(want to show my playingstyle so people learn better to play infrantry gun vs gun   

Like one poster said, you want the impossible. The recordings are uncompressed for two reasons:

1. You can choose what format, dimensions, kbps, audio + video compression on your own for your own purposes, which is GREAT. No proprietary codecs, no set framerates, dimensions etc, and most importantly NO LOSS in graphics, so that you can choose the best Quality/Size ratio you want when it comes to compressing the video.

I suggest recording in half-size in fraps with your overall dimensions on 1024x768 so your halfsize recording only takes up 512xwhatever (less data consumed on ur HD this way but still looks good).

2. If you tried to record everything you see AND compress it at the same time while playing online, you would have such bad lag you'd be lucky to see 1 FPS.

Sounds like you have no idea when it comes to digital video recording...

But unsterstand with ZD soft it compress it realtime and give good quality at once so, the only proble it doesn't work under battlefield.


and what abougt ACA Screen Recorder
somebody worked with it?

Last edited by Krysiss (2006-08-07 00:18:22)