Problem with Fraps

2005-02-20 08:45:38 pm

Hi,

I've just tried to record my speed run of Baldur's Gate 1 with Fraps (www.fraps.com).
However if I start the capture, the game is running very slow and will hang completely after ~20 seconds.
Baldur's Gate is just a 2D game and I have a Athlon XP 2800+, so I thought it should work fine.

Does anybody have an idea what's wrong there? Or does anyone know other recording tools I can test?

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Gorash

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Gorash: 2005-02-21 09:35:05 am

2005-02-21 09:34:23 am

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I ran into the same problems with Diablo II.
Most likely you record on the same harddrive as your game is on, and the DMA controller can't do both (BG is a very memory intensive game).

Try recording on a (at least physically different, but best plugged on different IDE) harddrive.

Defragmenting should gain a few frames too.

If you know you won't get more than, say, 20 frames, reduce fraps to this amount of frames captured (or a bit more).

I've tried it here, got around 15-20 frames (acceptable for Baldurs Gate) and can not reproduce the hanging, but the videos produced by fraps have some weird errors (like a desync)...

julien

2005-02-21 12:56:34 pm

I tried to record the video to another HD on another controller but that didn't help.
The game still runs as slow as before. Sad

julien

2005-02-21 02:21:42 pm

I've just tried Camtasia, which seems to work quite good.

BG is running quite smoothly with this program, so I'm trying the record the video with it.

ssd

2005-03-09 03:28:44 pm

what were your camtasia settings? i could never get it to run smoothly whenever i tested it and went through several different setting changes with little/no change.

julien

2005-03-09 03:38:29 pm

Hi
I recorded with camtasias own codec, 25 FPS, and mono sound.

The game I recorded (baldur's gate) didn't run smooth while camtasia was running, however It was better then Fraps Wink

Lucid Faia

2005-03-09 07:59:51 pm

Yeah, I said it.

HyperCam is better than Fraps for recording games. Haven't tried Camtasia yet.