FRAPS Or Another "Replay" Program

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I was using FRAPS and it really bogs my FPS down.

 

I have a Intel 9300 Quad Core....

I'm not sure about my HD RPM's

4 GIGS of RAM

My Video card is a Gefore 9800 GTX

What should I be looking to improve?

I'm guessing a 10,000 RPM HD Raptor drive would help me.

 

Just wondering what people happen to be using to record games/ What kinda PC's they have.

 

P.S. My system settings or maxed and I play on the highest resolution I can 1600x Uhhh something If I'm not mistaken.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

maybe tell fraps to save movies not on the same drive as your swap file.

And with a 1600x1200 resolution (or something) I recommend you set fraps to half size videos. I doubt any harddrive can manage full size writing with that resolution.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Fraps demands primarily CPU and HD capacity. You might want to try changing the cpu affinity of the fraps process to some cores demigod isn't using, and change the target drive to something not being used.

I'm running a 4870x2 card, a Q9550 CPU, 8gb of ram and double (veloci)raptor drives (raid) as target drives, and I can just about squeeze in 30 FPS at 1920x1200 resolution. My bottleneck was the drives, before I put them in raid I could barely record at 1080p/30fps.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Hey there Void, I remember you from a previous game... similiar nicks and all!  Fraps is crap. I'm on a nice system, E8400, SATA drives, HyperX ram... well, even my system is a bit dated now, being just about a year old... but fraps still runs like crap on it.

I'd actually suggest a better program.  Try one by CamStudio, which is pretty good.

http://camstudio.org/

I use theirs over Fraps... plus it is free.  I do not know if it works with games tho. ><

 

****Edit

 

CamStudio works, if you run in Windowed mode and record the region.  I have not been able to record fullscreen using CamStudio.  Anyways, the quality wasn't so great on mine.  You have to do a lot of little system tweaks.  If you wanna get good video, try lowering your resolution.  Perhaps put your colors into 16 bit.  Record to a hard disk which isn't in use (ie. one not running your game, windows, etc.).  Anyways, hope this helps ya a bit.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 2
You might want to try changing the cpu affinity of the fraps process to some cores demigod isn't using
End of Heavenfall's quote

Change the CPU affinity? How do you do that?

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Yea I remember you Void

thanks for all the info

 

Can you actually pick which core runs which programs.

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Sinfulvoid, reply 5


Can you actually pick which core runs which programs.
End of Sinfulvoid's quote

Open task manager (ctrl alt del), go to processes tab, right click a process (demigod.exe, fraps.exe or similar), and choose Set Affinity...

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

It says all 4 cores run Demigod. Does it even support Quadcore? I hear the enginge is old.          

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Sinfulvoid, reply 7
It says all 4 cores run Demigod. Does it even support Quadcore? I hear the enginge is old.          
End of Sinfulvoid's quote

No, it says Demigod is ALLOWED to run on all cores. Big difference.

Heavenfalls suggestion was to limit Demigod/FRAPS to different cores, so you can be certain they're not both trying to run on the  same one.

Reply #9 from Demigod Forums Top

You're not going to be able to record full-screen high-resolution video on the fly, regardless of whether you're using Fraps or not.  Either reduce the resolution that Fraps is recording at or reduce the resolution you're playing at.  You also would do well to follow the above advice by limiting which cores Demigod and Fraps use (although I'm not sure what problems this may cause, if any) as well as have Fraps save to a different hard drive.  If all of that together still reduces your framerate to an unplayable level, then your computer simply can't handle recording + playing at the same time.

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