Hello everyone, I know this is something different to see on this forum, but I have a big problem and I always tend to come here for you guys tech support for whatever reason. I have an issue with Fraps not wanting to record everything the way it should for whatever reason. Here is what is happening...
I will be playing a game, such as Modern Warfare 2, StarCraft 2, F1 2010, doesn't matter, and I have everything set to record 1920x1080 resolution at 50 FPS without frame rate lock and recording at half size. Since March I have been using the same settings across all games. It doesn't matter what game it is, what resolution I play on, the game quality, or even if I'm simply recording my desktop, it simply doesn't matter... Here is the issue.
When I begin my recording, everything will happily work with a nice constant 50 FPS, for about 30-45 seconds. After that time period, my frame rate will drop to about 1/2 of the targeted frame rate for about 10-15 seconds, and then it will jump back up to 50 FPS, and then the process starts over again!What do I do!? I have tried: uninstalling, and then reinstalling, removing folder in C drive during uninstall, removed registries, but I don't know if I got all of them, disk fragmentation, you name it. What can I be missing!? Don't say it is a hardware issue because nothing has changed with hardware or software. I have not touched the recording settings since I changed my hard drive to record everything onto, and that has a SHIT TON of space and is defragged, and blah blah blah. Nothing has changed?! I don't get what to do. I need Fraps fixed before Call of Duty Black Ops hits Steam or something bad will happen to me. The only thing I can think of is MAYBE Fraps has a cache folder... Maybe that is completely full with how much shit I record and then make videos of, and then delete, and then all over again. But I don't know for sure. Please, someone have any suggestions?
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reinstalling would have solved that.
Try recording what happens to the CPU during that time. Sounds to me like your antivirus or some other program is hogging some CPU or HDD time.
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Nothing changes with the CPU or the HDD in Temperatures when I record and what not (I have 2 monitors so I can watch the status). The thing that gets me is that I have been using the same settings and doing the same thing, and now there is a bump in the road which I have not even made a change for. I am going to try something now that a buddy of mine suggested
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What's your PC spec? Running high-end (graphically intensive games) such as the ones you have listed in addition with FRAPs is very demanding of your CPU. What FRAPs literally does is capture x screenshots per second and compile them into an AVI file. This is by no means the most efficient way to record screen-play from your PC monitor (but, without forking out 1000's of £ or $ for expensive, professional video codex, encoding and editing tools - its all we have).
Your problem (recording fine at 50ps for 30 to 40 seconds then dropping for 15 seconds) could be from a number of things... hard-drive capacity (the program finds it difficult to allocate hard drive space to the files it is writing)... insufficient memory/RAM (FRAPs is being asked to take too many screenshots than your computer can physically process).... insufficient CPU (similar to RAM issues)... or even something as trivial as over-heating.
My suggestion would be to run FRAPs at 30 FPS, lower the resolution of both FRAPs and the games you are recording (ideally have them equal). Then if problems still occur, lower your graphics settings - particular post-processing settings, anti-aliasing and shaders/renderers.
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This is most likely hard drive related. Fraps demands an enormous amount of HD access to write its avi files. Even moreso than CPU. CPU is big, but HD is just as big if not bigger. Make sure you're recording to a drive that doesn't contain windows or any of the games you're running to keep the access queue free.
I record to a 1.5 terabyte just for fraps at 1920x1200 fullscreen 30fps and generally it's fine.
Also recording at 50fps is a complete and total waste for the most part unless you are making some kind of special production.
Show them your butt, and when you do, slap it so it creates a sound akin to a chorus of screaming spider monkeys flogging a chime with cacti. Only then can you find your destiny at the tip of the shaft.
You actually pay for your fraps or is it the free trial?
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So, I had it working for a bit of time... And now I'm having it happening like on and off right now.
Cap your screen rate at 30 fps and adjust FRAPS settings to match, maybe that'll help. I doubt it, but I'm just throwin it out there. You have no reason for any screen refreshing faster, because the human eye only takes about 24 "pictures" per second anywho. 30 is just a nice number in case your framerate drops a little during recording, like mine (to 28-29).
I tried that didn't work. And plus, I can't play at 24 FPS, it is too chopy. I know that you can limit the frame rate with Fraps and play at a different one, but still
What's your PC spec? Running high-end (graphically intensive games) such as the ones you have listed in addition with FRAPs is very demanding of your CPU. What FRAPs literally does is capture x screenshots per second and compile them into an AVI file. This is by no means the most efficient way to record screen-play from your PC monitor (but, without forking out 1000's of £ or $ for expensive, professional video codex, encoding and editing tools - its all we have).
Quad Core 3.0GHz with a Nvidia 250 GTS with 1GB of RAM. There is NO reason I have an issue with this. I have been doing this for almost 2 years and no issues until now.
Your problem (recording fine at 50ps for 30 to 40 seconds then dropping for 15 seconds) could be from a number of things... hard-drive capacity (the program finds it difficult to allocate hard drive space to the files it is writing)... insufficient memory/RAM (FRAPs is being asked to take too many screenshots than your computer can physically process).... insufficient CPU (similar to RAM issues)... or even something as trivial as over-heating.
My cores don't rise in temperature nor does the GPU while recording, so overheating is out of the question. As for space, I bought a Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB drive JUST for Fraps.. One of the faster drives out there and that isn't an issue
My suggestion would be to run FRAPs at 30 FPS, lower the resolution of both FRAPs and the games you are recording (ideally have them equal). Then if problems still occur, lower your graphics settings - particular post-processing settings, anti-aliasing and shaders/renderers.
Doesn't matter how low the settings are, it still might do it at this point. Hell, I can record my desktop and I get this issue from time to time!
This is most likely hard drive related. Fraps demands an enormous amount of HD access to write its avi files. Even moreso than CPU. CPU is big, but HD is just as big if not bigger. Make sure you're recording to a drive that doesn't contain windows or any of the games you're running to keep the access queue free.
I record to a 1.5 terabyte just for fraps at 1920x1200 fullscreen 30fps and generally it's fine.
Also recording at 50fps is a complete and total waste for the most part unless you are making some kind of special production.
Recording at 50 is different from 30 FPS....
You actually pay for your fraps or is it the free trial?
I paid for it, but go figure they don't respond to anything and the community there doesn't know anything either
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Cap your screen rate at 30 fps and adjust FRAPS settings to match, maybe that'll help. I doubt it, but I'm just throwin it out there. You have no reason for any screen refreshing faster, because the human eye only takes about 24 "pictures" per second anywho. 30 is just a nice number in case your framerate drops a little during recording, like mine (to 28-29).
http://www.mediafire.com/?ifmmynzl50mI completely agree.
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