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[Homebound]

Vanguard Tip #1: Dont die

Vanguard Tip #2: Dont die

Vanguard Tip #3: You do NOT talk about Fight club

Vanguard Tip #4: Tuesdays are fish fillet Mignon on the Normandy

[RamsenC]

For some reason lowering the resolution didn't help me at all. My fps started higher than usual, but the second I got into battle it bogged way down. I probably need more RAM and a better CPU.

[Sabresandiego]

Post your system specs. I am using the following:

Intel Q6600 CPU 2.4ghz
4 Gig Ram
100gig SSD hard disk
Geforce GTX 260 Core 216 video card
40" LED LCD TV 1080p
23" LED LCD Monitor 1080p

Both of my monitors are 1080p so regardless of which one Im using I play in 1080p, but I lower to 720p to record in fraps and my fps is between 35 and 50 while recording. If I record in 1080p my FPS goes as low as 25 and I consider that unplayable.

Modifié par Sabresandiego, 22 mars 2010 - 11:54 .

[RamsenC]

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13 ghz

2 Gig Ram

Geforce 8800 GTS 640MB

300 gig SATA HD

19" LCD Monitor 1280x1024 (I can plug my PC into my 1080p HDTV though)



I wouldn't call 25 fps unplayable though since all my videos are around that much FPS. It does make making videos less fun than playing the game normally though.

[Sabresandiego]

With your system specs you might be force to record in 640 x 480 if you want decent frames. 25fps isnt unplayable technically, its just really annoying to play with that handicap.

[RamsenC]

The lowest I can go is 800x600 in the in-game options. With half size on Fraps it records at 400x300 (I think). Videos will probably look like junk with that resolution and the fps still dipped below 30, but it does feel a little smoother the more I play with it.



Either way upgrade time is nearing

[questioneer]

Vanguard + Grunt + Kasumi gonna be fun.

[Bozorgmehr]

Nexolek wrote...

Yeah. I play in 1680x1050 (60fps), but with fraps going I down it to 1280x720 (30fps). Seems to work pretty well, but I definitely can't keep it at full res when fraps is going. Man does it look weird playing in 16:9 on a 16:10 monitor. It doesn't stretch it, it actually zooms in. I can barely see my ammo or squad power cooldowns.

Same here.

I also switch to 1280x720 and lock frame rate at 30 fps recording full-size. I've disabled Film Grain (in ME2 config). But somehow my vids aren't that good looking, especially after editing with Windows Movie Maker. What are you guys using to edit the fraps video files? I just import those files (Movie Maker) and save the file using the Windows Media HD for xbox (6.9 Mbps).

Any tips?

[cruc1al]

If you record in 50fps instead, your frame rate in-game isn't locked in 30. Makes gameplay a bit smoother, for me at least, if you can maintain the frame rate above 30 while recording. Then when you process the video you can set it down to 30 or 25fps

[Sabresandiego]

awesome video crucial, would love to see armor and barriers

[Alcoholicmonkey416]

I've been making a Mass Effect 2 game play and cut scene movie Starring a renegade vanguard Sheppard. Thought some of the people in this thread might be interested in taking a look at it. I've made select parts available to the public so far and will make the rest public once I've completed editing the rest of my sequences.

HD Mass Effect 2 The Movie: Act 1 Introduction

Modifié par Alcoholicmonkey416, 23 mars 2010 - 10:59 .

[Sabresandiego]

I want to throw in a tip for fraps users who are having trouble getting decent frames while recording. Set fraps to record in half size and it will boost your frame rates tremendously. Once the video is recorded, use video editing software to change the resolution to whatever you want. The video wont have as high of quality but its good enough and allows you to play in much higher resolutions at higher frame rates while recording. Up until today I have been playing at 720p on my 1080p monitor so that I could record with good frames, and it was really annoying because the graphics were ugly. Now I can play in 1080p while recording with good frame rates, and only a slight decrease in video quality after editing.

[Sabresandiego]

I want to throw in a tip for fraps users who are having trouble getting decent frames while recording. Set fraps to record in half size and it will boost your frame rates tremendously. Once the video is recorded, use video editing software such as virtual dub to change the resolution to whatever you want. This allows you to play in much higher resolutions at higher frame rates while recording. Up until today I have been playing at 720p on my 1080p monitor so that I could record with good frames per second, and it was really annoying because the graphics were ugly. Now I can play in 1080p while recording with good frame rates, and only see a slight decrease in video quality after editing. I am recording in 1920 x 1080 at half size which is 960 x 540, then resizing the 960 x 540 fraps video to 1280 x 720 using virtual dub. This results in a 720p high definition video that is of excellent quality while I am playing at 1920 x 1080p with 60 frames per second.

-Play the game in your favorite and highest resolution (I play at 1920 x 1080p)
-Set fraps to record at half size at 60fps
-Use virtual dub to compress (DivX) the fraps video file into a resized (720p) 30fps video

Modifié par Sabresandiego, 24 mars 2010 - 11:10 .

[RamsenC]

I've tried that and it didn't work for me sadly.



On a side note has anyone tried Jacob and Grunt as squad mates with maxed out Inferno Ammo. You will have three super aggressive shotgunners at once with AoE panic. Haven't tried it yet, but it seems like it would be fun.

[Sabresandiego]

you tried recording in half size and it didnt boost your frames? That is extremely odd

[BeresaadSoldier]

Half size is great for youtube cause you can't tell the difference in quality at that resolution. I like to record full size though, since I have the means to do it. My rig is:



i7 920 CPU OC-ed to 3.2GHz

Nvidia GTX 295

Intel X-25M 80GB SSD

WD Caviar 1TB Hard Drive

19" Samsung 1280x1024 resolution



I play (and record) the game with 16x SLI anti-aliasing, everything maxed, AF 16x and film grain. When recording I always do full size, but I get bottlenecked by my WD hard drive if I record higher than 40FPS and it starts stuttering. That's why I usually lock fraps at 30.



A few tips for people who are new to Fraps and want to improve performance:



- The most usefull thing that will boost your frames a lot is having your game/OS/fraps on 1 HD and tell fraps to save the video to a secondary hard drive. The faster the 2nd hard drive, the better. Unless you want to record at 60FPS 1080p, and you'll need some sick drives in RAID 0 for that.



- Fraps is CPU/hard drive dependent so the faster those 2 are, the better your frames will be.



- Turn off anti-aliasing & anisotrophic filtering when recording. It will greatly boost performance and decrease your recorded file size. You can apply filters in editing software later on (I know Vegas has that option) to smooth out jaggies. Note: I don't follow this cause I like to play with eyecandy.



- Set up Fraps affinity on different cores than the ones the game is using. In my Case, due to HT technology, there are 8 threads running simultaneously. ME2 only uses 5 of them. Setting the affinity of Fraps to use the other 3 boosts performance dramatically. Morale of the story: split up your CPU usage between Fraps and ME2 to allow sufficient power for both. Experiment till you have best performance. Setting up fraps64.exe or fraps32.exe to a high priority as a process also seems to help.



Hope you find that usefull!

[Sabresandiego]

Why are you using such a bad monitor with such a nice computer?

Excellent tips by the way, can you repost them in my video recording thread?

Modifié par Sabresandiego, 25 mars 2010 - 02:25 .

[BeresaadSoldier]

Sabresandiego wrote...

Why are you using such a bad monitor with such a nice computer?

Excellent tips by the way, can you repost them in my video recording thread?

The last time I upgraded (like a month ago) I invested in an SSD instead of a new monitor. It's next on the list, but I'm saving up for a 30" 2560x1600 so it'll take me a while. Aand sure, I'll repost them. Can you link it here cause I've no idea where to look

[Sabresandiego]

Its right here, on the front page.



I have an SSD as well, I have my OS on it and my games. It is one of my best purchases ever. I really think that a monitor is the most important piece of hardware of all though since it is what you look at every day.

[RamsenC]

Sabresandiego wrote...

you tried recording in half size and it didnt boost your frames? That is extremely odd

No it did help my frame rate, but I've been running half-size for awhile now. Sinosleep brought it up awhile ago and while it helped it still slows my system down.

[thisisme8]

RamsenC wrote...

Sabresandiego wrote...

you tried recording in half size and it didnt boost your frames? That is extremely odd

No it did help my frame rate, but I've been running half-size for awhile now. Sinosleep brought it up awhile ago and while it helped it still slows my system down.

The slowdown does suck.  I just downloaded the DivX codec and will try it out.  Was using Xvid before and now I'm excited to play around with it at half size.

[sinosleep]

RamsenC wrote...
No it did help my frame rate, but I've been running half-size for awhile now. Sinosleep brought it up awhile ago and while it helped it still slows my system down.

The originator none greater. 

[Sabresandiego]

The activity on this board has gone way down over the last 2 weeks. I guess games can only hold peoples interest for so long, especially single player games.

[thisisme8]

Beards are like Vanguards: They are a bit uncomfortable at first, but it gets better and suddenly you feel like a man!

[Nexolek]

I couldn't resist.

Dying like a Vanguard 2: oops!... I died again