Fraps FPS

[MGreen]

I have a decent PC for gaming and I get about 400 fps on Minecraft on average, but whenever I try to record game-play using Fraps it doesn't just halve the frame rate, it goes down to about 30-50 fps.

I know Fraps drops your frame rate down but this seems too excessive for a recording software.

Anyone know whats up? Anything I could do to improve frames or is it just my fraps settings? (even though there are hardly any)

 

Thanks

[Guest]

What options do you use for recording?

[Luckylock]

Yep, fraps does that. Nobody should use it to record gameplay imho, but it has a nice FPS indicator.

 

Use Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) to record gameplay, it's free and one of the best recording softwares out there. Fairly simple to setup as well (if you're confused, just watch a guide or two on youtube and you're good to go).

 

https://obsproject.com/

[flibberdipper]

What do you have the frame rate in FRAPS set to?

 

Yep, fraps does that. Nobody should use it to record gameplay imho, but it has a nice FPS indicator.

 

Use Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) to record gameplay, it's free and one of the best recording softwares out there. Fairly simple to setup as well (if you're confused, just watch a guide or two on youtube and you're good to go).

 

https://obsproject.com/

FRAPS is fine for recording. Even on my G3258 it's perfectly fine. OBS actually whams it harder and it works far worse doing so.

[Luckylock]

FRAPS is fine for recording. Even on my G3258 it's perfectly fine. OBS actually whams it harder and it works far worse doing so.

 

That's weird, I just tested it and got a completely opposite experience. Fraps hammered my FPS when trying to record at 60 (or even 30) FPS (went from 300+ FPS to 120 and it was stuck there). Fraps also gives almost no options and enormous uncompressed videos.

 

For some reason, fraps seems to cap your fps at some low number when you record gameplay.

 

On the other hand, OBS gives you more options than you will ever need, compresses the video and doesn't cap your FPS. (still rocking 260+ when recording even at 1080p 60 fps)

 

Different stokes for different folks I guess. I also have an i7-4790k crazyness going on, so that might be why it's a lot more efficient to go with OBS for me.

[StareX]

When recording a screen/game, the recording software has to write the HDD data, approximately 200MBps is being transfered if not even more due to your resolution, actions, etc.

It then decreases the writing/reading speeds of the process and slowers it down so your HDD won't fail. If you're recording on a single HDD with nothing on it, then it shouldn't be an issue for you.

However, if you're recording on an HDD while your Windows is running, background apps, your game, then there's an issue and your FPS will drop due to massive writing/reading speeds.

 

Also good hardware is required, decent PC ok.. 400fps on Minecraft, well .. great! You can use DxTory if you don't want to be limited to FPS. Dxtory is a better software for recording than Fraps. 

 

You can view Jackfrags guide about Dxtory, it's a GREAT guide! 

[ExcitezR]

people still use fraps?

[Zambonie]

Ik most recording software like fraps put a fps cap on.

Usually its a 30FPS cap, sometimes 60FPS, but you can change it in the settings. I'm pretty sure the max cap is 60Fps.. but idk, so just go into the settings and try to find a FPS cap setting.

[flibberdipper]

That's weird, I just tested it and got a completely opposite experience. Fraps hammered my FPS when trying to record at 60 (or even 30) FPS (went from 300+ FPS to 120 and it was stuck there). Fraps also gives almost no options and enormous uncompressed videos.

 

For some reason, fraps seems to cap your fps at some low number when you record gameplay.

 

On the other hand, OBS gives you more options than you will ever need, compresses the video and doesn't cap your FPS. (still rocking 260+ when recording even at 1080p 60 fps)

 

Different stokes for different folks I guess. I also have an i7-4790k crazyness going on, so that might be why it's a lot more efficient to go with OBS for me.

I record at 60/uncompressed, and it caps me to 60, but the files tend to be fucking huge, but I'm okay with that since it looks far better than OBS and hammers my CPU less.

 

I have a G3258 at 4.6GHz though, so that's weird.