Fraps Not Recording Sound

[Vicious302]

Anyone familiar with fraps please help. I've email'd the dev and I think that guy must be high or something, if you look at the fraps faq and the video section you'll clearly see that they refer to "record input" option that is simply not there anymore. The only option in Record Win7 Sound or Record External Input... no options for recording input. Does anyone who uses this have any idea what is going on? At the very least can I smoke whatever he has.

[BloodyDeed]

Just use "Record External Input" and choose your microphone there.

[Vicious302]

Nope doesn't work.

With Record Win7 Audio checked, fraps records the 2 load up sounds but stops when it gets to the menu music.

By microphone do you mean my actual microphone or the input?
I can not choose anything here. It is choosen by the Default Recording Device thats "choose" at the windows mixer not in fraps.

[BloodyDeed]

Do you have an X-FI soundcard or something similar?

[Vicious302]

Yes X-Fi Titanium... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BloodyDeed]

Afaik there has never been a real fix for that.
For a workaround just set your ingame sound to "Hardware and High" instead of "X-FI and Ultrahigh".

[Vicious302]

with that devs IQ level I dont think there ever will be. he doesn't even know the settings of his own program... looking here :

FRAPS show fps, record video game movies, screen capture software

He says "When you select "Detect best sound input" Fraps will determine the best input to record the game sound on....

He also said the same thing to me in an Email... BUT THERE IS NO OPTION FOR THAT. He's got me pulling my hair out talking about USB headsets as a common issue, not mentioning a word about x-fi.

[ryan d ale]

Had same issue, same sound card.

However, the sound does work (now).

Vicious, I'm not entirely sure how I solved the issue but I think it might be driver related (I have had countless driver issues). Out of efficiency just try and download 'Device Doctor'. Download & Install Driver updates through that and maybe your problem will be fixed.

I didn't do any configuration change for the sound to start working and so I think it may have been the driver update that helped.

[sprint113]

I believe the X-fi is the culprit, in particular with games that use OpenAL. In Windows Vista and Windows 7, hardware accelerated audio capabilities was removed and replaced with a software mixer. The following is my guess as to what is happening to the sound in BF2 and why FRAPS isn't recording it, so it may not be completely accurate.

When you select X-Fi mode for your sound, the game bypasses the Windows audio mixer and sends the OAL sound data directly to your X-Fi, which renders the sound in hardware, and then outputs the sound directly from the card to your speakers. A similar situation will occur if you set it to Hardware while having ALchemy set up for BF2. On the other hand, Ultra High, High, Med and Low sound quality settings should not affect this, as they simply modify the quality and number of simultaneous sounds the game will output.

In contrast, I believe all other sound cards will simply render the sound in software by the OS and just output the sound unless a particular program such as ALchemy, Asus DS3D GX, Realtek 3DSoundback. As a result, FRAPS will be able to intercept and record the audio. On the down side, you will likely lose some, if not all EAX sound processing (why you can hear things further away in hardware mode vs x-fi mode).

Interestingly, while the game sound is rendered with OpenAL, VOIP in BF2 isn't. As such, you should be able to hear your squad mates in the audio captured with FRAPS.

TLDR - X-Fi mode bypasses the Windows audio mixer, which is what FRAPS listens to.