Issues with FRAPS?

Well MWO runs fine off the same HD that I am recording to so I would hesitant to point at the HDD for errors.

Also I'm able to record fine (with FRAPS) after a cold reset of the computer and a fresh load of MWO and FRAPs so I am guessing memory leak somewhere. MWO is rife with them. A little while ago I had a match where everything was half speed; movement, shooting, everything and there was no visible FPS drop.

I will try the Registery Cleaner when I get home and run some more tests with Afterburner.

I've never had to update them before. Wonder why all of a sudden after a MWO patch it would require it? Which version of the pack did you download?

 

Ran the CCLeaner thing... 120 issues needed fixed in my Registry... Whoops...

All fixed...

FRAPS? On the testing grounds worked fine for about 2 minutes then all of a sudden started to grind down to 2-11 FPS making the game unplayable. The moment I STOP recording on FRAPS (by pressing the hotkey while still in the drop) instantly back up to 60 FPS

MSI Afterburner? Chugs away with no problems. The ONLY thing I don't like about it? It won't let me bind my middle mouse button to be the PUSH TO TALK button for the 2nd Audio Input. Booooooooo

 

Depending on what sort of keyboard you have, you could pipe that sort of command through driver software, maybe just regular software in fact

I know that I can't bind 'right Alt' as push to talk in Afterburner, so I either record with mic always hot or basically muted.

 

I think I have this shit figured out.

I was down to 63gb space on my HDD. I deleted some stuff and managed to free up about 600gb of space. I also ran CCLeaner and cleaned the Registry as well as a bunch of other stuff and it now seems to work. I don't have issues with the FPS drops to 1-5 anymore.

Wonder if the swap file was so big that it was just dumping out and not being able to keep up?

 

You should run a HD error check / chkdsk.

 

I did run that and it got through the first 4 checks with no errors at all but then the 5th check was taking too long and I want to actually DO things on my computer while I am awake so I will run the check again when its bed time so I can just let it run.

So far though I have recorded 4-5 matches with zero errors (other than MWO locking up sometimes which it does once in a while anyways).

 

OBS? I guess I will try that.

 

Its really good i reccomend you do

 

I use a mid-level gaming machine and still notice a slight drop in performance when using VLC Streaming, Predator, or apowersoft. Nothing huge...

VLC would drop my in-game FPS down to about 18 at the lowest and run 22-25 consistently with very good video quality. Still, not the FPS I want. Best video quality, however, most taxing program on my system.

Predator was very smooth, but, the video quality was so-so. I may tweak settings more and try again when I have more time.

apowersoft was very low quality video cap and sound cap.

OBS is actually very nice for free-ware. No FPS drop, fairly decent video quality, easy to setup. Not bad at all.

My poor man's rig:
Biostar H77MU3 Mother
Intel i7 3.5mHz Quad Core
16GB (2x8gb) DDR3
NVidia GTX660 3GB
Windows 7 (Because 8 is complete horsedung)

 

Well, I just spent about 5 minutes checking and changing some settings for MSI Afterburner/Predator... By far the winner! Last night, I was just hopping on, starting a Cap program and running one drop between projects at work (a bit of downtime waiting for parts to be delivered) I know, I should have taken the time to read up on the program and adjust settings last night.

This morning, I was able to take a better look at settings and options and MSI Afterburning/Pred is hands-down the easiest program and far out-preforms all other freeware capture programs I've used. I'm too cheap to pay for FRAPS.

Only downside to MSI, HUUUGE video files. But that's the price you pay for better quality.

 

I found MSI (at 85% quality) was taking video files 1/2 to 1/3 the size of FRAPs.

The ONLY thing I don't like about Afterburner is that it won't let me use my mouse button for push to talk. I use that third mouse button on my TS3 and would love to be able to use it to make sure ambient sounds aren't recorded during my drops. If they add something like that then I am sure I would switch over easily because Afterburner can ALSO run my fans and the 560 Ti 440 needs non-stock fan curves.

One program to rule them all!

 

I'm too cheap for FRAPS. However, the other programs I have tried were recording appx 7 minute videos (standard drop and Boss kill in WoW) at about .7-.8GB. With Afterburner, it's around 1.5BG or so at current settings. Again, the quality is not even comparable. I'll put up with larger files to have smoother videos in which one can actually read the damn text!

 

What, if any, compression software do you guys use to upload to youtube? I have extremely fast connection, but, 3.4GB for an 8.5 minute video is a bit of a long upload... Do you guys compress or re-size first? What programs do you recommend?

 

Sony Vegas... The Be All to End All of video editing software.

It slices, it dices, it even compresses based on your settings.

I turn 20gb raw videos into 500mb to 1gb renders and upload to YouTube that way (full 1080 HD)

 

I'm super ghetto when it comes to production of anything outside of Audio.

So I just edit with Windows Movie Maker.

I've never taken videos seriously until maybe a month or two ago, mostly cuz I just make them for myself to watch later on; here's my careface:

If I could afford it, I'd pick up Vegas but whenever I think about investing in that type of shit, I would rather take that money and invest in audio production stuff, so... but one day I think I will bother to get Vegas or Adobe Premiere, something.

I have used Handbrake before for rendering down a finished video to a smaller file size, also in hopes that it'd look better in youtube, but honestly, it didn't seem to help the quality of it in terms of how it would look on youtube side by side compared to one that was just uploaded after WMM without a Handbrake compression pass. So, whatever. I just go straight from the editor to uploading now, fuck a middle man. I've also used VirtualDub in order to crop shit down to a specific size, but it's not really that important to me so I never do it.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Studio-Platinum-Production-Version/dp/B0051M6IPI

Amazon, $40, not the latest version but still a very good one.

 

I honestly cannot afford 40 bucks on random software to make my vids look slightly better.

If I could, and cared, I would but not right now, so.

 

Just wanted to let you know, sometimes people believe they are $400, that's all.