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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: life robot arena2 on August 01, 2009, 10:04:57 AM
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What frame rate is best for RA2 matchs for fraps?
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Madiaba set mine up with..
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/westcoastdrags/setupd.png)
(except the video capture key) Thanks again Mad,
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I think Fraps sucks. I don't like dropping to 5 FPS at the push of a button.
So I use Growler. No mess, no fuss, no slowdown unless your game is running slow anyway.
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And that is what? Free?
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Nah, not free.
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Just had a look at the site, doesn't look free to me
EDIT: Red beat me to it. Slooow typing.
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I think Fraps sucks. I don't like dropping to 5 FPS at the push of a button.
So I use Growler. No mess, no fuss, no slowdown unless your game is running slow anyway.
Go half size then there is no lag.
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Go half size then there is no lag.
Back when I used it, I did whatever that was possible to increase FPS.
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Go half size then there is no lag.
You kidding?!?
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LRA2, can't figure out anything on your own?
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Well it makes it better. Plus if you want your videos to look non laggy using fraps. After you record use windows movie maker and post your video in the time line and in the video effects select the 2 times faster and the video will look flawless.
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That's what I do for RRR. 1 problem: if you have a microphone, the sound will sound like chipmunks when you're done.
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Fraps never worked for me.
After 5 seconds It crashed or stopped recording.
Hate it. Even hypercam works more than that trash.
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Joe, that would take an ultra-nice comp to crunch all of that info at those settings. I'm impressed...
Pt. There is no 'right' parameters for everyone, because everyone has different comps with different processors, memory, HDD, CDD, apps running in background, etc... As has been mentioned, just use the max settings you can without significant lag.
Notes: The resolution suffers a bit on "Half-Size", so I like "Full-Size". Lower frame rates seem to effect quality less than "Half-Size", on my comp set-up.
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mad.. im pretty sure thats how it was when I installed it ???.. but yeah it handles it fine except for a few matches that were going to lag anyway.
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The maximum frame rate perceivable by the human eye is about 30 FPS, so there is absolutely no reason to use anything higher, unless you're inserting subliminal messages to make anyone watching your video mysteriously want popcorn or something.
Also, Windows Movie Maker always compresses the video to 30 FPS when you save it anyway.
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thats interesting ? but I found SHW's in the robot wars arena knocks 30 FPS to about 5-10 ? but it manages to hold about 30 FPS average on 60
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! I'll have to try that... I've never recorded at 60 FPS because I just assumed it would be laggier. If I could consistently get 30 FPS, that would be great. Most fights I record are around 20-25.
Although, I notice your Clash Cubes videos always have at least some lag. In theory, at 30 FPS there should be 0 lag... unless, since you're recording at 60 FPS, 30 is half speed? In which case you get more lag than recording at 30.
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it gets about 30 but drops to about 15-20 for robots with a weapons overload (bladewave and grindhouse was a good example) but there have been more lagless videos then laggy ones
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Almost all of mine are recorded with FRAPS set at 25 fps. Never looked choppy.
I only alter the size; starting with full size for better resolution, and if lag then half size.
And FRAPS works very well on my comp(s). No issues manifested for me.
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my RA2 had a crash yesterday and then would no longer display FRAPS so I reinstalled it at that was the settings ? (aside from the input button) is that not how you have yours mad ?
Edit: Click I just used those settings I posted before and filmed the latest clash cubes match, averaged 30 FPS the lowest it got was about 26 FPS and highest it got was 35 FPS.
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I don't think this worked but here is a test.
https://gametechmods.com/?do=ra2ube&ACT=video&id=test
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I don't think this worked but here is a test.
https://gametechmods.com/?do=ra2ube&ACT=video&id=test
Nothing. It seems.
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Must be because i merged two into 1
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You mean videos?
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yes.
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Well, it can be done. BBEANS has an intro (1 scene), bot introductions (2 scenes), round introductions (3 scenes altogether) and the actual rounds (3 scenes). That adds up to 9 "videos"
You was probably doing it wrong. Or maybe RA2ube isn't so good.
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my RA2 had a crash yesterday and then would no longer display FRAPS so I reinstalled it at that was the settings ? (aside from the input button) is that not how you have yours mad ? ...
Maybe those are the default settings. Really never noticed. My best settings are mentioned above.^
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I think 29.97 FPS is the best (NTSC framerate).
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Serge, isn't that the NTSC framerate for color tv's. Is there an advantage you know of to use this rate for a comp and monitor? When I saw this rate as an option in FRAPS, I assumed it was for playback on a tv. If you know of one, I'll switch to that framerate. Let me know, please.
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Does RA2 have a framerate cap?
*slightly off-topic*: Shouldn't Serge be more of a Technical Adviser than a Veteran? :P
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Serge, isn't that the NTSC framerate for color tv's. Is there an advantage you know of to use this rate for a comp and monitor? When I saw this rate as an option in FRAPS, I assumed it was for playback on a tv. If you know of one, I'll switch to that framerate. Let me know, please.
Of course choosing it leads to an advantage when converting the video for playback on a TV, or writing it as a Video DVD. But I think it's the best mainly because it's high enough to make a video non choppy, yet low enough to not make the video too big. That and the TV playback capability made me choose it.
Does RA2 have a framerate cap?
*slightly off-topic*: Shouldn't Serge be more of a Technical Adviser than a Veteran? :P
I think it may be capped @ 60fps, but I'd have to check it out using the debug window.
I should be a n00bweight.
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Really?O_O.