Hi, 

 

I've been watching Jon5700's videos on Youtube for a long time, and I have a question- How does he make the videos so silky smooth? Whenever I start recording with FRAPS, my frame rates just go down as fast as a brick falling from the sky. Sometimes I was flying at about 40 FPS on approach and I wanted to record the approach. So I hit the hot key to start recording, and down came the frames. Especially at an ORBX airport in the NGX VC. Could someone please help with this matter?

 

Thanks in advance.

Do you have a SSD on your system? I had the same issue with fraps until I redirected it to use my SSD for movie and screenshot storage. Still see a small drop in FPS with fraps now, but way better than using the standard hard drive

Consider (1) recording at a slower simulation rate and then speeding up the video or (2)

(beta). Note, however, that aircraft animations may glitch, and that the sound for the video must be recorded separately using Fraps. 

Have fraps record to a physically separate drive from FSX (and Windows if possible).  I used to have serious problems trying to record videos in World of Warcraft with it until someone gave me that pro tip.  The reason why it kills your performance is FSX is always accessing the hard drive (for new textures etc.).  Well, guess what fraps is doing?  That's right, hammering your hard drive dumping literally GB's of data a minute onto it depending on your recording settings.  

 

You don't need to use a particularly fast drive for it. It just needs to be physically separate (not just a 2nd partition).  I'm actually using a probably close to 10 year old 250GB 1st gen SATA Maxtor drive for it that I keep around just for scratch drive stuff for photoshop and such.  You can always move the recorded video off to a larger permanent storage after.

Damn, I hadn't seen the replies because this thread went across a couple of pages in the FSX forum. Sorry for replying late guys. Thanks for the help! I'll have a look at getting myself an SSD, especially with the PMDG 777 coming up. I won't want to miss the opportunity to make incredibly realistic videos! 

 

Thanks again.