Best FRAPS settings?

[Coquito]

What screenshot format do you use?

What fps setting do you use?

Do you use full or half resolution?

Sound or no sound?

[ST34MM4CHIN3]

1: png
2: 60
3: Full
4: Sound yes.

Protip: Let Fraps save your videos and pictures on a separate hard drive.

[NoSkillz121]

Use Playclaw instead, you get the choice of compression which greatly reduces the amount of HDD space the vids use with little quality loss and the choice of how many cores its allowed to use.

[Sandy Cheeks]

It all depends on your hardware/resolution etc
List them?

[Coquito]

1: png
2: 60
3: Full
4: Sound yes.

Protip: Let Fraps save your videos and pictures on a separate hard drive.

I two drives, one for the OS and the other for the game installations. Do you mean a third drive? cuz I presently have Fraps set to save on the same drive as the game installations.

[Coquito]

It all depends on your hardware/resolution etc
List them?

X4-965 (Quad 3.4GHz)
2X2GB of RAM
BFG GTS250 OC
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO-USB3 Mobo
Windows 7 64bit Pro
OS on Intel SSD
BC2 on second SATA2 drive
Onboard Realtek Sound

[THE Nakedgun]

This is why client side demo recording is needed like whats available in all source engine games.

[Sandy Cheeks]

Lag is best reduced when you record to a different hdd to the game
Also what is your screen resolution?

[Ramzy]

Stutter and freezing is caused by your HDD not being able to keep up with the gigabytes worth of data being crunched.

If you're going to record at resolutions beyond 1280x1024 @ full reso / 60FPS, you NEED to record on another physical hard drive, not where the game is installed to.

If you set your record FPS to 60 (or some other ridiculously high number), and you only record at <30FPS, then it means your CPU isn't keeping up.

Generally your videos should be recorded at 30 - 45FPS.

[Coquito]

Lag is best reduced when you record to a different hdd to the game
Also what is your screen resolution?

1280 x 1024