Author Topic: Framerate Question (Read 480 times)

keonesan · January 08, 2011, 01:30:09 PM

Well this was quite a while back and I never really paid much attention to it but it came back to my mind for some reason.

Anyways I made a video (mostly out of boredom) of L4D2 with the zombie caprate to 300 and a constant panic event running. The game capped at 10fps and refused to go up nor down which I found quite odd. When I recorded with fraps (with sync framerate off) it capped the framerate at 30fps without incline nor decline. Vwat?

Reason to this?

P.S. I used source engine netgraph not fraps framerate monitor.

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Snaffle J. Bean · January 08, 2011, 01:34:27 PM

Higher framerate = more frames per second = more frames overall = bigger file, so there is framerate capping put in place by video recorders.

In short, an uncompressed 300FPS AVI file would take up a ton of space. Editors that are targeted for people without a business mostly cap out at 120 FPS, anyway.

Why would you want a 300FPS video? I don't even think YouTube supports anything over 60FPS.

keonesan · January 08, 2011, 01:35:34 PM

Quote from: Snaffle J. Bean on January 08, 2011, 01:34:27 PM

Higher framerate = more frames per second = more frames overall = bigger file, so there is framerate capping put in place by video recorders.

In short, an uncompressed 300FPS AVI file would take up a ton of space. Editors that are targeted for people without a business mostly cap out at 120 FPS, anyway.

Why would you want a 300FPS video? I don't even think YouTube supports anything over 60FPS.

What? Fraps was set to 30fps not 300. I think you misread something. Also I had sync framerate off so I don't see how?

EDIT: Youtube supports 30fps. Btw.

DOUBLE EDIT: I just looked at Fraps. It's called Lock framerate not sync framerate. And yes it was set to off.

Snaffle J. Bean · January 08, 2011, 01:37:25 PM

Quote from: keonesan on January 08, 2011, 01:35:34 PM

What? Fraps was set to 30fps not 300. I think you misread something. Also I had sync framerate off so I don't see how?

EDIT: Youtube supports 30fps. Btw.

oh what

oh forget i thought you said you were getting 300fps :|

Night Fox · January 08, 2011, 01:43:51 PM

Quote from: Snaffle J. Bean on January 08, 2011, 01:37:25 PM

oh what
oh forget i thought you said you were getting 300fps :|

I think he was talking about the amount of zombies that can be spawned or something.

keonesan · January 08, 2011, 01:45:20 PM

Quote from: Night Fox on January 08, 2011, 01:43:51 PM

I think he was talking about the amount of zombies that can be spawned or something.

Yeah.

Btw this is the vid I'm talking about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ1JjgnRcIU

Snaffle J. Bean · January 08, 2011, 01:46:39 PM

oh wait i think i finally got what you were saying through my thick skull

Your game was at 10FPS, but then when you recorded, it went up to 30FPS?

keonesan · January 08, 2011, 01:47:07 PM

Quote from: Snaffle J. Bean on January 08, 2011, 01:46:39 PM

oh wait i think i finally got what you were saying through my thick skull

Your game was at 10FPS, but then when you recorded, it went up to 30FPS?

Yeah. Doesn't make sense right?

keonesan · January 08, 2011, 04:02:02 PM

Bump?

Ziyek · January 08, 2011, 05:27:34 PM

That is really strange. I can't think of any reason as to why that would be happening >.< Record everything I suppose?