Fraps and Project Reality

[Bluedrake42]

I've been having trouble using fraps to record PR games lately. I'll record about an hour worth of gameplay and then randomly I'll start getting fps drops lower then 1 frame. It's really starting to tick me off, cause I can record Forgotten Hope 2 games fine. But for PR just randomly fraps will start screwing up. When I stop fraps I shoot back up to 80 fps or higher, and then turn it on and it almost seizes the game (after working flawlessly for hours). I have more then enough space left on my hard drive every time. So any ideas why the hell its doing this??

[dbzao]

I get that sometimes as well. I think it's related to memory or pagefile swapping.

[Bluedrake42]

Should I lower my resolution or settings or something?

[Mad-Mike]

Fraps and any other game recording program do this. Its really annoying and also when you have recorded like a 2 minute video on fraps, the file is like 6GB which is stupidly big for a 2 minute video.

I remember once, When I recorded a full round of PR. It took like 400GB of my hard drive.

[Psyrus]

The way to go IMO. 2x500gb in raid0. It gives you a great independent 'drive' to dump to with much better read/write speeds than just a single drive.

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee94 ... D-Perf.png

Once I had my Fraps dump separated from my OS/PR drive, I stopped experiencing the slowdowns that you are speaking of.

[Bluedrake42]

are you saying I have to buy some new hard drives? or did I misunderstand

[Psyrus]

are you saying I have to buy some new hard drives? or did I misunderstand

I'm not saying you have to do anything Although I willl say that I agree with the pagefile/swaps happening. I assume your fraps dump and your pagefile (and conceivably OS) are all running off the same big drive? If you separate the fraps dump from the OS HDD activity, I believe it will help your performance, but I can't guarantee it so if you don't already have a spare HDD to test with, don't go rushing out to spend $50-90 on a drive when it may not solve your issue.

I was merely pointing out the setup that I used rather effectively. YMMV as always.

[Bluedrake42]

I'm not saying you have to do anything Although I willl say that I agree with the pagefile/swaps happening. I assume your fraps dump and your pagefile (and conceivably OS) are all running off the same big drive? If you separate the fraps dump from the OS HDD activity, I believe it will help your performance, but I can't guarantee it so if you don't already have a spare HDD to test with, don't go rushing out to spend $50-90 on a drive when it may not solve your issue.

I was merely pointing out the setup that I used rather effectively. YMMV as always.

ah kk, gotchya, I'll see if I can find my external with a sata connection

[saXoni]

I'll steal your thread a bit, Bluedrake!

I play PR on high when I'm not recording. If I am recording, my FPS drops to 10-25 on most of the maps. Are there any stuff I should turn off/set down a bit?

Thanks,
saX.

[Valleyforge3946]

I'll steal your thread a bit, Bluedrake!

I play PR on high when I'm not recording. If I am recording, my FPS drops to 10-25 on most of the maps. Are there any stuff I should turn off/set down a bit?

Thanks,
saX.

It depends on your hardware and what your recording @. Lowering resolution can help but not much. PR as we all know is not the most optimized of games so... it comes down to your HDD and CPU. Either Record on an HDD SDD that your os is not running on or you can try halfing the resolution of your videos. If your already playing at a low resolution.. dont do that unless you dont care about quality.

[dbzao]

One thing you could try and see if it helps is to put BF2 and Fraps on different CPU cores.

[Acemantura]

and at different CPU priorities

[saXoni]

One thing you could try and see if it helps is to put BF2 and Fraps on different CPU cores.

How do I do that, exactly? I'm not that good with computers.

I'll give you my specs:

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1

CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.80GHz
Wolfdale 45nm Technology

RAM
4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 399MHz (5-5-5-1

Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5QPL-AM (LGA775)

Graphics
BenQ G2420HDB (1920x1080@60Hz)
LEN L193pC (1280x1024@60Hz)
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series

Hard Drives
488GB Seagate ST3500418AS ATA Device (SATA)

Optical Drives
ATAPI iHAS124 Y ATA Device
DTSoftBusCd00

Audio
Logitech G35 Headset


Thanks,
saX.

[sharpie]

Sax, try turning off shadows and lowering terrain. That helped me a lot when i had a crappier graphics card. Should help you a bit when recording

[SnipingCoward]

You can set the affinity of a process to a set of cores.
How To Set Processor Affinity To An Application In Windows 7,Vista,XP

If you want to set the priority of a process you can do that one, but to have it permanently you will need a 3rd party tool afaik.