Fraps Recording

[ray320]

posted on January 7th, 2011, 6:44 am

Last edited by ray320 on January 7th, 2011, 6:47 am, edited 1 time in total.

Okay guys, ray needs some help so he doesnt have to take anti depressents lol

So basically i switch to vista, and id like it very much if my recording vid quality didnt suck so much, so this is mainly for yandon who was helping me, but if anyone knows a thing about optimal display size, rations, and youtube recording, any help would be appreciated, included are screenshot which should tell the story

Dell monitor two of them

Dell E198FP review - Monitors



then a nivida geforce nvs 290 with 1.6gb graphics card

and heres screens

Oh and as you will be able to see the standard movie maker with vista dont give me alot of options, and the ones they do are shitty, like 720 by 480, so yeah, i got live movie maker and i can customize the dimensions


EDIT. well apparently a screenshot does both screens...... did not know that...... man i miss my old computer.... sorry for both screens guys.... fricken vista and fraps not liking me and my videos not being all perty is making me 

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[Anonymous]

posted on January 7th, 2011, 2:58 pm

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you switched os, and switched to vista? should have gone to win7 the performance difference is notable on my mediocre hardware.

for me my display's native resolution is 1280x800, which is not 16:9.

it is however only 80 pixels taller than the 1280x720 resolution which is equivalent to 720 HD on youtube. so i set fleetops to run at 1280x720 which is 16:9. i only have 1 monitor.

so fraps outputs an avi in that resolution.

then i go into windows live movie maker, import the files, do the auto movie things to get titles etc, then push the youtube button. couple hours later its on youtube and done. makes it simple for me since im not that bright.

youtube uses a 16:9 video player, so maybe if you set fleetops to a 16:9 resolution. maybe run it in window mode since your screen may not be 16:9

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EDIT: corrected my resolutions.

[Elim]

posted on January 7th, 2011, 3:01 pm

Last edited by Elim on January 7th, 2011, 3:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Well, the standard resolutions are now 1280×720, 1680x1050, 1920×1080, so the basic aspect ratio is 16:9 (I konw its pretty bad for working for example) , your monitor(s) use the standard 4:3 (1240x1024) ratio, and youtube does not like that unfortunately, thats why your videos have big black spaces on both sides (if you dont adjust aspec ratio on youtube). I think you should probably try to run the game in windowed mode at 1280×720, and record it with fraps. (this way it will fit to the 720p standard)

The other problem can be your video card, its an older professional card, based on nvida's G86 gpu, so its basically a Geforce 8600GT, thats quite old. It has only 16 shader processors, today standard midrange Nvidia cards have 200+ shader prcessors for example. It should be able to run FO well btw, but not on full detail. The main problem is with the card that it has only 256mb ram, and by my own experience FO likes at least 512mb of video memory. (on high resolutions)

So probably would be a good idea to get a new monitor and a video card if you want to really improve the quality of your recordings. (I konw thats always bad news.. )

posted on January 7th, 2011, 3:07 pm

The main problem is with the card that it has only 256mb ram, and by my own experience FO likes at least 512mb of video memory. (on high resolutions)

i run fleetops on full detail with only 224mb of video memory, which in my case is just ram that is dedicated to that job since i use onboard graphics not a graphics card.

running fraps is just about possible on my machine.

playing any game is fine without fraps.

posted on January 7th, 2011, 3:28 pm

The devs probably have a much better answer, but the FO engine is a texture bitch, in my opinion. My main destkop is a Cad machine with GTX470 equivalent pro card (huge overkill) , and it still lags a little bit when loading Borg textures for the first time... 

posted on January 7th, 2011, 3:37 pm

i think the lag when loading borg tex happens to everyone, even people with extremely beefy computers. it only happens when i first view the borg base.

posted on January 7th, 2011, 5:15 pm

Ray why do you have a workstation GFX card?

posted on January 7th, 2011, 5:38 pm

maybe he bought it from a company second hand.

posted on January 7th, 2011, 10:47 pm

Old graphics card

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[Anonymous]

posted on January 8th, 2011, 1:41 am

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Vista was a mistake.  And the Borg take forever to load.

posted on January 8th, 2011, 1:49 am

I've heard someone say Vista isn't built for games, and that XP is better for them.

posted on January 8th, 2011, 2:14 am

I've heard someone say Vista isn't built for games, and that XP is better for them.

It is unless the game is really new and for some reason doesn't support XP.  But yeah, Vista is and was a huge mistake.  win 7, though not as close to perfection as XP is 100 times better than Vista.

posted on January 8th, 2011, 3:20 pm

well windows 7 has many feature advancements above XP. it of course requires a bit more hardware which is understandable.

if you turn off stuff like themes and desktop window manager then win7 takes a lot less res.

personally i think win7 is the best os microsoft have made yet.

posted on January 8th, 2011, 6:45 pm

Windows 7 was built on vista so you cant have one without the other. Usually every other release from MS is good but since they switched to a 2 year development cycle we will see if that remains true.

posted on January 8th, 2011, 6:54 pm

actually windows 7 is based on windows NT, which is what vista and xp are based on too. they are more siblings than parent and child.

when working on windows 7 they were looking more to fix the complaints people had about vista, such as poor performance.

as such win7 wasnt vastly different from vista, feature wise. they were adding more polish, since vista was kinda rough.

vista did have improvements over xp, such as better handling of when the graphics driver crashes.