FRAPS Recording ?s

When I run fraps and record my gameplay, everything is extremely choppy.
What is bottlenecking here? My GPU or CPU? (Everything is perfectly smooth 60+ fps when I don't turn on fraps, but when I do everything gets really choppy.)

Answers would be appreciated.

 

FRAPS show fps, record video game movies, screen capture software

Mainly because your hard drive has to work extra hard to handle the sheer amount of video data that's being created while you are gaming. On top of that, your CPU has to work extra hard to encode AVI (uncompressed) while you record game footage. When you take all these factors into consideration, your game performance will suffer.

To reduce game choppiness while recording:
- capture at 30FPS or less
- capture Half-Size instead of Full-Size

 

Thanks man. Apparently FRAPS only put an extra 5% load on my CPU and with your settings everything was smoother. Thanks.

 

Does this affect playback settings on youtube for example? Would I lose the HD after uploading? Cause it works great, I can record anything now, no stutter at all. Just want to keep HD on my youtube vids.

 

Sorry, recording at Half-Size means just that - FRAPS captures footage at half of the game resolution, so if your game resolution is set at 1280x800, then your recorded game footage will be 640x400.

So you gonna have to keep your capture size at full if you want HD footage. However you can try the following:

- set game resolution at 2560x1440 (if that's even possible for your computer to handle in the first place), then capture at half-size and you still get 1280x720. [This could be pointless]

- or use video upscalers that upscale standard/low definition videos to 720p+, most video editing softwares already have such feature, you can try and experimenting with it. [Again, could be pointless, as the result won't be satisfactory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymb9znoQTwc&feature=fvw]


Good luck.

 

Thanks for the info, I record at 1920 X 1080, so that should be ok? Well it doesn't matter I am using the settings you suggested anyway. Recording Cryostasis max PhysX, at 1920 X 1080, 2X AA, with almost no FPS hit at all. Same for Red Faction: Guerrilla, I have so much recording to do... XD

Oh and +1 rep as well... Thanks.

 

You are welcome, have fun.

 

Recording full-quality FRAPS brought even my previous dual-core desktop to its knees, you really need a quad if you're going to do that.