SniperwolfMR 153 Posted July 13, 2014 Hello everyone! I just recently purchased Fraps to do some in game recording and was wondering if anyone had any tips for me regarding this program and DayZ. Every time I begin to record my frame rate will drop around 10-15 frames, which isn't a huge deal until I am in an area where I usually get 30 FPS. Is there anything I can tweak to avoid the frame drop? I'm very new to using video capturing software and any advice would be appreciated. I heard that if you were to have your videos recorded to a hard drive other than the one that the game is saved on, it will eliminate the frame drop. Can anyone confirm this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alferret 45 Posted July 13, 2014 I heard that if you were to have your videos recorded to a hard drive other than the one that the game is saved on, it will eliminate the frame drop. Can anyone confirm this? I have the same issue, 50% drop in frame rate. Recording to another drive makes no difference for me. I play off of a 5700rpm drive and record to a 5900rpm drive.I do know that a lot of people knock most settings back to normal and turn off AA for recording. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wooly-back-jack 294 Posted July 13, 2014 wouldn't halving the size or recording at less fps help? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nettles 396 Posted July 13, 2014 in the Fraps program go to the 'Movies' tab. you can set it to lock at certain framerates. Do you have it set to something low? The lower you lock the framerate, the choppier it'll look. If the framerate is low though, recordings will take less space on your drive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SniperwolfMR 153 Posted July 13, 2014 in the Fraps program go to the 'Movies' tab. you can set it to lock at certain framerates. Do you have it set to something low? The lower you lock the framerate, the choppier it'll look. If the framerate is low though, recordings will take less space on your drive.I am not talking about the actually recordings frame rate. I'm talking about my actual frame rate in game once I start filming. I do run the game with everything on very high etc. I'll try and lower the settings as much as I can without my eyes bleeding and see if this helps at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
irl-calibre 744 Posted July 13, 2014 yes, you should always record onto a different HD than the one that is streaming the game to answer your question. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quantum2k6 348 Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) it was always the same with fraps... -50% performence! everytime every setting. u need a real high end pc for fraps. i u have an nvidia card of newest gen. then try the nvidia xperience and Shadowplay. it runs in the back without any performence problems. and the best is, u can record things backwards. so if u decide the last 10 minutes was a great gunfight etc shadowplay records the last 10 minutes with pressing altf10. other pros: - its 100% free! NO advertisings!- direct webcam input- u can stream direct to twitch- brilliant ingame quality- fast saving- multiple recording options ITS GREAT! FOREVER NVIDIA! Edited July 14, 2014 by quantum2k6 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
burritoman259 593 Posted July 14, 2014 Hello everyone! I just recently purchased Fraps to do some in game recording and was wondering if anyone had any tips for me regarding this program and DayZ. Every time I begin to record my frame rate will drop around 10-15 frames, which isn't a huge deal until I am in an area where I usually get 30 FPS. Get a refund and buy Dxtory and get Lagarith's Lossless Codec if you intend to do lots of recording with Arma and Dayz, Fraps is horrible for recording anything Arma related.Most people that have mentioned Dxtory with this setup only hits 3-4 fps off, once I get home I can personally check this assuming the free version of fraps works like the full version. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SniperwolfMR 153 Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) it was always the same with fraps... -50% performence! everytime every setting. u need a real high end pc for fraps. i u have an nvidia card of newest gen. then try the nvidia xperience and Shadowplay. it runs in the back without any performence problems. and the best is, u can record things backwards. so if u decide the last 10 minutes was a great gunfight etc shadowplay records the last 10 minutes with pressing altf10. other pros: - its 100% free! NO advertisings!- direct webcam input- u can stream direct to twitch- brilliant ingame quality- fast saving- multiple recording options ITS GREAT! FOREVER NVIDIA!Wow man, thank you so much for this information. I had no idea about this feature that I had with my GTX 760, totally just wasted 39 bucks on fraps! Just tried it out and the video looks awesome and there is ZERO FPS drop, amazing!! Edited July 14, 2014 by SniperwolfMR 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
klesh 2423 Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) The problem, as I understand it (this might be only true for older versions of fraps) is that it can only take advantage of one of your cpu cores, regardless of how many you have. A program like dxtory lets you tell it how many cores you have an it will spread its load across them. If fraps has not fixed that aspect of it, it will always run like a pig. Oink! Get a refund and buy Dxtory and get Lagarith's Lossless Codec if you intend to do lots of recording with Arma and Dayz, Fraps is horrible for recording anything Arma related.Most people that have mentioned Dxtory with this setup only hits 3-4 fps off, once I get home I can personally check this assuming the free version of fraps works like the full version. Yes, that codec is great. I found jackfrags made a good dxtory setup video, with a link to that codec and shots of all the settings he uses. Made it simple to follow if anyone sees this and runs dxtory. Edited July 14, 2014 by klesh 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wooly-back-jack 294 Posted July 14, 2014 it was always the same with fraps... -50% performence! everytime every setting. u need a real high end pc for fraps. i u have an nvidia card of newest gen. then try the nvidia xperience and Shadowplay. it runs in the back without any performence problems. and the best is, u can record things backwards. so if u decide the last 10 minutes was a great gunfight etc shadowplay records the last 10 minutes with pressing altf10. other pros: - its 100% free! NO advertisings!- direct webcam input- u can stream direct to twitch- brilliant ingame quality- fast saving- multiple recording options ITS GREAT! FOREVER NVIDIA! I haven't give that a whirl yet so didn't want to suggest it and look stupid, but thanks.. I'll try it out sometime :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quantum2k6 348 Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) ohh and it shows your framerate :) no extra software tools more needet ;) Edited July 14, 2014 by quantum2k6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reg Park 160 Posted July 14, 2014 As suggested to me on this forum, the best one ive found so far for AMD/ATI cards is open broadcaster, plus it's free.for nvidia cards, hear good things about shadowplay. ive tried fraps and dxtory, both really hurt my FPS. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Irish. 4886 Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) Hello everyone! I just recently purchased Fraps to do some in game recording and was wondering if anyone had any tips for me regarding this program and DayZ. Every time I begin to record my frame rate will drop around 10-15 frames, which isn't a huge deal until I am in an area where I usually get 30 FPS. Is there anything I can tweak to avoid the frame drop? I'm very new to using video capturing software and any advice would be appreciated. I heard that if you were to have your videos recorded to a hard drive other than the one that the game is saved on, it will eliminate the frame drop. Can anyone confirm this? Tip #1: Bandicam scratch that.. you have a GTX 700 series. USE SHADOWPLAY ;) Edited July 14, 2014 by lrish Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freethink 984 Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) Best off recording to a different drive. (Not a partition - a different physical drive.) A cheap and fast alternative to an ssd drive is a sd card. If you have a second pc you are best off using that for recording and the first one for playing on. I found losing 10-15fps typical in all software when recording onto the same pc but the above cut that to nothing. Edited July 14, 2014 by freethink Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
burritoman259 593 Posted July 15, 2014 Tip #1: Bandicam scratch that.. you have a GTX 700 series. USE SHADOWPLAY ;)The Nvidia GTX 600 series also support shadowplay. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
