How to record video at a certain resolution using Fraps. And also running fraps outisde of a game.

[Ichigo]

My monitor's native res in 1280x1024. I want to record at 640x480. But apparently I can only record at full or half size. Anyone want to explain how half-size works? And what about using fraps for movies and screenshots outside of a game app?

 

[citizen059]

The full & half size options record at either the full resolution, or half the resolution, of the game you're running.

So if you want to record at 640x480, then you either need to play a game at 640x480 resolution while recording full size, or play at 1280x960 and record at half-size.

This introduces a couple of other issues. Games running at 640x480 usually don't look very good, while recording in Fraps while playing a game at 1280x960 can bring a lot of games to a crawl unless you have a total beast of a system.

What I do with my PC is play the game at a resolution & detail level that looks good, but doesn't tax the system. Then when I run Fraps, I make sure that I can still play the game at a decent framerate (25-30+). That usually gives me the best video quality, and then I can use a video editing tool (even something as simple as Windows Movie Maker) to change the resolution of the final video.

As for the other question, I have yet to get fraps to do anything outside of a game.

 

[Ichigo]

Weird thing. I just recorded being in the menu of CoD2 at 1280x1024 at full size/30fps. But the resolution looked like it was or at least very close to 640x480. I'm assuming this is Fraps not being able to record over their maximum resolution of 1152xsomething and automatically changing to half-size. WHich is fine for me. This is all going to be shown on a standard TV later, so this resolution is perfect.

And I have gotten it to work for WMP10, just not things like WIndows explorer, Opera, etc. I'd like to though.

 

[Ichigo]

bump