SOLVED: A 3rd time. Issue with Fraps recording of FF7

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Sorry people.  I must repeat myself a 3rd time, and in light of the now more professional atmosphere here, perhaps someone can shed some light on this issue.

When in field, using Fraps, the fps drops to like 27-28 fps when recording.  I have tried everything I can think of, including different systems but it always stutters as it never achieves the full 30.

FF8 does.....

Given ff8 does work as intended I can't see this being a sorely Fraps issue... 

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fraps 3.4.4 seems to fare better in terms of fluid movement...  doesn't seem to be jittery like the older fraps, although the fps is still saying it is dropping to 28.

edit 2:  nope.  When the recording is viewed back it jitters.  For some reason fraps is losing 2 fps when recording and that seems to be regardless of system.  At least, with me it is.
 
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Yeah I hate it too, it slows the game down a bit when I record. At least I don't have my old issue, which was fraps dropping to 6 fps in battle  :| That was painful, and I had to speed footage up, and splice in sounds with 3rd party programs, yatta yatta.
 
I don't understand why though, I don't have the problem with ff8 or any other game.  Perhaps ff7 just does something fraps does not like.  It doesn't matter how good the system, or harddrive, or resolution, it seems to do it.
 
It seems being it. I've found some kind of workaround : use speedhack.dll by DarkBite compiled by kranmer and boost the game by a slight amount (can't remember well right now, but I think of something like 1.2 - 1) and Fraps slows the game just enough.
 
yeah but thats a bit shoddy isnt it.. especially since WM and battle will be too fast then.  The game works fine out of the field in fraps.
 
This may seem odd, but FF7 records flawlessly now for me with fraps 3.4.0, even though it didn't before.

I just recently installed Windows 7 to try it out, got tired of XP. I just tried frapsing FF7 gameplay, and it's smooth as it can possibly be. Only problem is it seems to refuse to record the battle swirl, instead leaving it at a still of the field until I get into battle. I also have use_shaders set to no but i don't think that's it because I had problems recording before with that.
 
Are you sure it is staying at 30 fps in field?  I am using that version too.  perhaps windows 7 fixes something?
 
What's your OS, DLPB?
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XP, but I tried Vista and had same issue with fraps.  Also tried different hardware.  The other software for recording also either had an issue or was crap.
 
I wish I could help you DLPB, but alas Fraps has always made FLAWLESS video for me.What are your system specs?

I have Phenom II X6 1090T OC'ed to 3.8(stable) with two 6870's... maybe thats why I dont get slowed down.
 
i've tried on 2 systems, athlon and nvidia and pentium.  All of em had issues.  Currently system spec is

core 2 duo e6600
nvidia 7900
win xp
SSD 30GB

More than enough for fraps and ff7, and it doesnt work no matter what I do.  Always the same 2 fps loss, and again, it does not happen on world map or battle, just field and only in ff7, not ff8 :)
 
i've tried on 2 systems, athlon and nvidia and pentium.  All of em had issues.  Currently system spec is

core 2 duo e6600
nvidia 7900
win xp
SSD 30GB

More than enough for fraps and ff7, and it doesnt work no matter what I do.  Always the same 2 fps loss, and again, it does not happen on world map or battle, just field and only in ff7, not ff8 :?:
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Maybe if you change the affinity for them in the task manager it will help
 
Yeah your specs should handle it fine...... wow I really dont know, I will look into the matter for you though.
 
Maybe if you change the affinity for them in the task manager it will help
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tried that before too... in fact I always do that with fraps.  1 Cpu for fraps 1 for ff7... no go.

I have tried pretty much everythin.  I've changed settings in nvidia... all of em. I've tried new hardware, new OS (not 7 though), affinity... nothin works and it isn't because the system is too slow.  This is an odd reason...  otherwise it wouldn't work fine in ff8 field or ff7 world map.  What is going on here is some sort of compatibility issue with fraps and FF7...  I think.
 
I will seeee ;)  8)

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Sorry that's a woeful software tbh.  Very rubbish GUI for starters...  Not very good with the resulting recording either.

None of them do the job as good as fraps does...  aside from the fact it doesnt work properly with FF7 for unknown reason.  Can anyone else verify they have a 2 fps drop with fraps with ff7 field, and that this occurs on the original non aali-1.02 game?
 
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