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DVA5259
First Officer, B777-200

Joined on November 15 2007

Sacramento, CA USA

45 legs, 70.4 hours
5 legs, 9.1 hours online
43 legs, 66.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 26 2010 15:42 ET by Daniel Haro

Yesterday as some of you know I conducted my flight from KSMF to KSLC for my senior project.

The flight was great and all but I ran into a problem. When I fly I get 60FPS constant.
Upon hitting the record button my FPS dropped to 10...

I had to deal with this and I recorded most parts at 10FPS. On pushback the aircraft jerked alot while moving. So I doubt I want to have this video for my project now. I want to redo the video again and flight but with the recording over 30FPS.

I don't know why but my External Hard Drive used to record at 60FPS as well and now it went down to 10?? Might it be a bad version of Fraps or video drivers?

Any help? I run:

Windows Vista Home Premium X64
4GB RAM
C2D @ 3.80GHz
HDD 640GB @ 7200RPM
NVIDIA GTS 250 1GB
External HDD 750GB connected via Firewire

FS2004 and Fraps are running under administrator.

-Daniel

Daniel Haro

First Officer, B777-200

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Posted onPost created on April 26 2010 17:35 ET by Tom Sanders

Can you record to your internal hard drive and then transfer the file over? With external you can / will run into bottlenecks where this would be less prone with your internal drives. You can try re-installing FRAPS and trying different settings in FSX. My assumption would be the external, but if you have done it before then......not sure

Tom Sanders

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Posted onPost created on April 26 2010 17:51 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

yeah - recording to any external drive - live like fraps is a resource killer. Fraps also records a HUGE amount of data - so a 30 second clip could reach upwards of several hundred MB before you edit it...add in FSX and your specs - and the result is not surprising

Andrew Kaufmann (DVA3931)

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Posted onPost created on April 26 2010 18:49 ET by Aggrey Ellis

Try half size recording. That helps too.

Aggrey Ellis

Senior Captain, B777-300

DVA5259
First Officer, B777-200

Joined on November 15 2007

Sacramento, CA USA

45 legs, 70.4 hours
5 legs, 9.1 hours online
43 legs, 66.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 26 2010 20:15 ET by Daniel Haro

Okay guys I fixed it, it records at 60FPS again. I use FS9 by the way.

The problem was a compatibility issue with the new Fraps version after all. I went back to an older version and it solved my problem.
I use Half Size as well.

Thanks again everyone! smile

-Daniel

Daniel Haro

First Officer, B777-200

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