Fraps: any free alternative .. : Crysis

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:23 pm

.. that really works ?

thanks

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:41 pm

just buy the licence, not expensive...

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:40 am

MSI Afterburner much better then fraps.

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:04 am

Xfire works great for video recording.And it is free and awesome.

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:38 pm

yeah fraps is pretty crap... i mean like 3GB for about 60 seconds?!?! and it really hammers your frame rate.

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:24 pm

Xfire works great for video recording.And it is free and awesome.

Would you say Xfire is better than Fraps? i wanna know becuase I'm trying to find somthing to replace fraps.

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:27 pm

One thing everyone needs to realize is that if you want to record a game that is at 1080P and at 60FPS and you don't want the FPS to fall, you not only need a fast CPU to handle the writing of the video (and still run the game smooth) but you need to be writing to a hard drive that has some pretty fast write speeds. I bought a separate 1TB Black Caviar WD drive to record to. With windows and Crysis on my other 1TB BC drive AND trying to record to the same hard drive too, it would drop too low at times, especially if the drive was barely fragmented.

I can record around 45-60FPS with 1080P and Crysis 2 max with Fraps, usually sits around 45 (vsync on). Turning off vsync can give a slight boost in some cases as well.

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:50 am

Fraps isnt crap, its just a raw file. Xfire does the same and converts it automatic bevor uploading.
Using Fraps is very simple and all you need to do is fixing the recording FPS in the programm. (set the recording frames to 60 fps).

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:57 pm

Actually i know something WAY better than fraps and can record at 1080p and oh.. you don't have to SPEND nothing. WeGame is the most BEST free video recording software for gaming. You can take pictures too!! WeGame is better!

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:52 pm

I've tried MSI Afterburner and it does the job very well !

thanks

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:18 pm

We use $30 PlayClaw because it is multi-threading and works very well for us. For technical details about how to record and post-processing with free codecs and tools to upload an HD video to YouTube see this post...
http://www.gamesas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=272675#p272675

Results look like this...

Crysis 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrgVHl2hXmQ&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYT3fynV9E&hd=1

League of Legends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggE7k3_zsbQ&hd=1

Left4Dead2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZwQRS1zf0k&hd=1

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:39 pm

http://www.wegame.com

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:40 am

Use WEGAME!

It's what I use, it's free and is so much better than Fraps anyway!

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:03 am

I use Gregion (free) which is alot like Fraps. File size will be huge if you want good quality. If your only plan is to upload to youtube, I can't think of a reason to record higher than 30 FPS unless you plan on doing slow motion. If you are going to record 1080p at higher FPS, consider recording to an SSD and then moving the files to a regular HDD after you are done gaming.