Hello!

I was wondering what settings and what rigs people use to record Crysis2 footage? I have one of the latest fraps, an i5 2500k(Sandy bridge), Radeon HD6950, 4gb Corsair Dominator ram and I get quite noticable fps drops, to the point that I perform really realyl poorly ingame.

I am running 1680x1050 on extreme and have fraps set to record at 60fps full-size, which I assumed my computer could handle, but seems not. I also tried at 30fps record, but same issue. I do record to another harddrive than which crysis is on aswell.

So if anyone could share some tips I'd be grateful!

Noone around that use fraps? ;<

Workaround with fraps... record (destination) files to a different harddrive than your game/OS harddrive.

I play with solid 45-60fps while recording and have fraps set to record 60fps. Resolution 1920x1080 and I record full-resolution.

i7 950
3x GTX480

Edit: Note that during recording I only play with a single GTX480. No SLI.


PS: Oops... should have read your last sentence lol. Google for a HDD speed test tool and check how much write-speed you have.

hmm i was trying to run Fraps simultaniously to Crysis 2, but then my computer freezed...

i have following settings:
resolution: 1024x768
graphic settings: high

ok, my computer is very... bad, it′s just a notebook with a Intel Core2Duo at 2x 2.1 Ghz and a nVidia GT240.
that is the lowest config i recommend, the game lags during multiplayer enormously!
lucky me, i ′m going to by a i5-2800 with a GTX460

Try recording at half size. You will be suprised in the fps improvement, then when editing the video simply rescale it. I get nice stable frames with fraps on a Q8300 @ 3.00Ghz and GTX 560 Ti

you gotta play on 1280x720. it's the best rezolution for youtube
they should implement a demo feature for movie makers :/

I have the latest FRAPS and have conducted some experiments to get the best setup, it seems like most recording to another drive is best, make sure the speed of the drive is fast to write and it is a good idea to have a fairly decent system to start with, that being said to get full 1080P using FRAPS at 60fps is a task to say the least.

There's two workarounds... one which i use is the 'hardware' method, but at this present time because of the fabled 'flicker' bug interlace problems exist for me using my HD.PVR (1080i) and causes the output to be less than sharp for my standards, the HD-PVR go's through various other devices just to reach it... (HDMI-Scaler and HDFury-3) not the best way or the most cost effective way of recording game play videos but you won't get any drop in frames per second while in game obviously and so you should get a 1:1 copy of whats happening on your screen without any lag.

The other way is to dumb down but don't let anyone know it thats to say... if your system is fast enough, record at 720p (1280x720) you'll have to play at this resolution also, but the frame-rate of your videos should be much higher (should easily do 60fps) then you can either upload/convert for youtube to either 720p or scale them up to 1080p (via Sony Vegas or an Adobe product) which can be done easily and still looks good.

Example video output of my PVR setup described above...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlPmBSJOp3E