Fraps recording question?

[dante66]

I'm using Fraps to record FFVII. I'm using the High Res patch and whatever FPS I put it on when I record it's heavily slow, what settings do I use?

Specs...

Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.93GHz, 512MB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

[Turc]

I don't know if fraps can render without sucking up system resources. Fraps dumps all of the data to uncompressed video/audio, which are huge in file weight. i.e. about 6 seconds of video would take up about 30mb. Be sure to have a huge amount of space on your hard drive, and be prepared to be annoyed by the choppiness of the game you are playing. I believe there are other screen capture tools that might render to mpeg quickly without dropped frames. However, if you want pure lossless capature, just go with fraps and uncompression.

[dante66]

Maybe I should record the normal version of FFVII instead of High Res. Shame, then it'll look crap.

[The Skillster]

if you are thinking of recording FF7 High res, then you should think about using a dual core pc at least or fiddle with the compression codecs you have set in frapps to find one that doesn't hit the cpu as much (helps to have lots of RAM too).
Don't go for low bit rates because that involves more cpu time, and try to avoid complex codecs like MP4/DivX/Xvid.
Maybe a simple Mpeg2 codec might help?

[dante66]

So in normal terms that means it just ain't gonna happen with my specs?

[steven]

So thats why I could not do it. So what option do I have?

[Turc]

Put a video camera very close to your screen....and pray...

[The Skillster]

You could try loopback recording?
Output your video to PC and S-video (TV OUT on your PC) and hook the S-video into another PC's Video Capture card and try recording it that way, it wont effect your primary PC and you just need a spare pc and not a high spec dual core one.