Redeemed
11-23-08, 11:28 PM
Okay, being the geek that I am, I'd like to make a movie of several games (play through them, recording the entire time). Now, I've been using FRAPs for the recording, but I've run into a problem.
The first game I'm recording is Quake 4. Now, I was playing through it just fine, with FRAPs recording, and FPS never dropped below 30. But, I got to a point and died, and it just getting complicated to synce previous saves where I was alive to the recordings, so I opted to restart the campaign. But, for some reason with my second run through FPS is horrible. It dips down to below 5 fps at times.
I've tried a million differing in-game + driver control panel settings. I've tried adjusting the affinity and priority of FRAPs... nothing seems to help, and the "hitching" seems completely random.
One thing I have noticed, is my HDD is ultra active. Now, this is normal (thanks to superfetch), but I went ahead and disabled a bunch of processes I'm not using just trying to free up resources. Nothing I do seems to help.
So, I'm wanting to know from the more experienced here... might there be a simple setting I'm overlooking? Maybe a setting the the driver control panel? A setting within FRAPs? A software setting elsewhere? Or maybe even a BIOS setting I'm over looking?
My goal it to play through the game, recording only the game play, piece it together as a full-length movie, and the burn it to DVD for playback on the living room theater setup. But, I don't want it to look like a jaggy mess, low-texture resolution mess, or the sorts. My first run through (when FPS was never below 30) I had all in-games maxed, 4xAA, 16xAF, GCAA, MSTAA, v-sync and triple buffering enabled, at a resolution of 1280x720. As I said before, it played perfectly the first time through, but now, all of a sudden it's a choppy mess. And I've tried all softs of IQ settings, I've even upgraded my video card drivers... and I'm at a loss.
Is FRAPs the only application for recording gameplay? Are there other alternatives?
The first game I'm recording is Quake 4. Now, I was playing through it just fine, with FRAPs recording, and FPS never dropped below 30. But, I got to a point and died, and it just getting complicated to synce previous saves where I was alive to the recordings, so I opted to restart the campaign. But, for some reason with my second run through FPS is horrible. It dips down to below 5 fps at times.
I've tried a million differing in-game + driver control panel settings. I've tried adjusting the affinity and priority of FRAPs... nothing seems to help, and the "hitching" seems completely random.
One thing I have noticed, is my HDD is ultra active. Now, this is normal (thanks to superfetch), but I went ahead and disabled a bunch of processes I'm not using just trying to free up resources. Nothing I do seems to help.
So, I'm wanting to know from the more experienced here... might there be a simple setting I'm overlooking? Maybe a setting the the driver control panel? A setting within FRAPs? A software setting elsewhere? Or maybe even a BIOS setting I'm over looking?
My goal it to play through the game, recording only the game play, piece it together as a full-length movie, and the burn it to DVD for playback on the living room theater setup. But, I don't want it to look like a jaggy mess, low-texture resolution mess, or the sorts. My first run through (when FPS was never below 30) I had all in-games maxed, 4xAA, 16xAF, GCAA, MSTAA, v-sync and triple buffering enabled, at a resolution of 1280x720. As I said before, it played perfectly the first time through, but now, all of a sudden it's a choppy mess. And I've tried all softs of IQ settings, I've even upgraded my video card drivers... and I'm at a loss.
Is FRAPs the only application for recording gameplay? Are there other alternatives?