Once upon a time (I.E. about half a year ago) FRAPS recorded sound perfectly fine. Without changing a single setting, it records no sound. I haven't tried it with my mic enabled, as I'd much rather just have the damn thing working. I haven't done anything to any codecs. While I was forced to update Windows Live, I doubt this has any relevance. Any help on solving this would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, and because I love you, have a screenie.

First of all, don't record to multichannel unless you specifically need it. Second of all, check your default devices in windows sound settings. Judging by the grayed out external input, windows isn't even pointing to your mic anyways.

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I read that at stereo speakers, but the default devices is still important.

Make sure your speakers in the windows Playback tab are set to your default device. To make sure they're the ones you want, run audio in the background you want fraps to record (e.g. ventrilo, winamp) and see if the peaks are moving.

It grays out when the box isn't ticked. Even when it isn't grayed out, it's still impossible to change what it's pointing to. Sound properties are normal, or at least close enough that I don't notice anything wrong.



also, /30sueme.png. Winning URL.

EDIT: Recording from the mic works. Recording the computer's actual output from games and stuff does not.

Okay, I'll explain this a bit further.

Fraps reads the default devices in Windows control panel. So, you want your speakers or whatever outbound that gets all of your audio activity to be your default device, and your mic to be both your default device AND default communication device.

It's retarded, but since fraps hasn't had any competition in its lifetime it has never received a proper update.

I know this. But looking at the sound, my headphones are set as both. As stated before, I had it configured exactly like this, and it worked. Now it does not. I have not even opened my sound properties until today since I got it working over a year ago. Changing the USB port to see if that does shit.

set the input device as stereo mix.

Once you can record from audacity, fraps will record your audio.

You can't record both mic and stereo mix without playing the mic audio through the speakers.

Wrong, considering I am now. It records all audio being played, and is set to record from my mic as well.

It's fixed, close the topic please.