[Aphelion]

Okay, I've asked this in every forum I can think of (mostly because I'm supposed to be studying for my final tomorrow).

I'm getting terrible framerates in FRAPS whenever I activate the video-capture aspect of the program. Is this normal??? I mean, I've set it to capture 10 fps at 640x480 and my framerate STILL drops to 10 fps (not related to the setting, if I set it to capture at 20fps it drops to 7fps in game).

I can't play the game at this slow speed and the whole purpose of me making these movies is to do something useful like flux or mine, then be able to share the videos with n00bs.

Any help would be appreciated, even links to other forums.

System Specs
P4 2.6 Ghz
128 MB GeFarce 6600GT AGP
1 Gig PC2700 RAM
5400 rpm HD (I think)

[Ambrosius]

You may want to consult Brutus on this. I believe he has the most experience with it. He hangs out at JGW fairly frequently.

[Aphelion]

I remembered Brutus doing all those movies and even met him at Chewcaca's wedding in Pensacola. Didn't know he was still online or at JGWeb. Thanks for the tip Ambro.

[Aphelion]

Gah, I don't know why, but for some reason, I have two accounts at JGWeb and neither of them work anymore (won't post or pm or anything). Could someone send Brutus this message for me?

Hey man, it's Aph.

I wanted to make some tutorial videos for the n00bies and I was wondering how the hell you managed to record anything in Jumpgate without FRAPS sending your framerate to hell (I'm getting 10fps with capture on at best). SpiritOne suggested I send the video out to another comp for capturing. I could do it but it would be kind of a pain in the ass so I was wondering if you had a better way to do it. I wanted to do some combat movies first so I need 30 fps so I can still hit things while filming.

Thanks for the help,
Aph

Thanks guys.

[Aphelion]

Okay, nevermind on the pm thing. Didn't realize that changing my email on JGW meant reconfirming my email address before I could reply.

[Aphelion]

Looks like I'm going to try to hook the S-video out on my one computer, to my TV tuner card on the other computer, then use FRAPS to record the videos. Just have to find drivers for my tuner card again now... *sigh*

[GrimGriz]

Um...what would tv-tuning have to do with it?

[Aphelion]

I ran Jumpgate on my primary comp with TV-out activated, plugged the TV-out into the other computer with a TV-tuner card and recorded the footage with that computer. (so the primary comp would get full FPS) Unfortunatley, the secondary comp was having the same problems as the first, ie, the framerate of the movies sucks, plus, the TV-tuner card lost to much quality it was worthless.

[Corn]

FPS well recording suck, using fraps makes the game choppy. This is normally the effect of the 250mb being recorded to the hard drive in 30secs. Fraps records in uncompressed AVI files. My FPS drop from about 60 to 20ish but its very choppy and hard to aim.

[alphabet]

My fraps used to suck on my old PC. But ever since I got my dual core AMD, I havent had any problems. I cant even tell when its running.. which can be wild, when you get a 5GIG avi. LOL

In a uniprocessor system both the game and fraps have to compete for processor time, not to mention system interrupts from game controllers, etc. I think its this competition that causes fps to suffer when unabling fraps on systems with one processor.

I dont have those problems anymore because I think fraps runs on one core while the game runs on the other... I know this wont help you, but I just thought you should know.

[Aphelion]

Ahh, sweet. So you're saying if I've got Hyper Threading/Transport or a Dual Core setup, I can probably pull it off. That's great news since my parents recently bought an Athlon 64 X2 for their Christmas present!

[vorlon31]

seems that upgrade season is fast approaching again for me too