how to: fraps?

[Klamor]

i would be nice if someone could shoe me how to get the best quality our of fraps... i had it working at one point, but ever since my computer got wiped, i havent been able to get the high quality with the high FPS...

[Kaynin]

Run WoW and Fraps from seperate harddisks. Let fraps save the files at one, and have wow installed on another.

That's the best way. There are ways to create software something bridges on one disk that simulate the same thing or something. But someone else who has experience with that could better explain that. :P

I have two hard disks and I have no quality loss while playing now that I have fraps save the raw files on a seperate harddisk. When I run them both on the same, my fps drops considerably.

Once you have the raw files, use a program such as Sony Vegas (There's many more, I use vegas.) to compile the movie to your preferences. If you upload on youtube or go with streaming, you have to save at lower quality (512Kbit/s max-ish), but if you want good quality, which usually means large files, you can just compile it in a dvd or divx format. Something like 1-2 Mbit/s.

That's what you want to know right? I think the rest is fairly self explanatory. Fraps is pretty easy to use. If you encounter a more specific problem with fraps, just tell us what exactly isn't working, maybe we can help then. :P

[Klamor]

ill try that :) thanks

EDIT: Reinstalled the way you said and it still drops my FPS down to like 30....

[merujo]

inside fraps, tune the fps to 60.

what happens is that everytime u capture, it will capture at the fps saved on fraps, and if u put 60 u wont notice much difference.

[Savage]

It's not some magical program that can capture movies while you play WoW at 60FPS. Unless you have a BEAST of a PC, it's going to have some impact on your performance.

Also, go to the Movies tab, change the video to Full-Size and change it to 30FPS. It will capture at 30FPS. If you don't like this, try changing it up or down depending on what you need. I find that turning off sound helps too.

[Bradster]

My fraps settings are normally at 30 FPS, no sound, no cursor. Some times I turn it up to 60 FPS for things i'm working on. Other then that, that's pretty much it.