As posted before: Capturing with Fraps eats FPS like crazy. Plus: Usually Fraps is set to capture at a specific framerate. I used around 30 when I captured stuff back in the day, and once Fraps was "filming", the FPS counter would drop to ... 30 (or lower, if it was a HW-hungry game).

So I wouldn't deduce anything from the performance and/or FPS-counter in a captured video.

I remember capturing a video of a beta-version of Dark Messiah of M&M which was kinda choppy. Without Fraps the beta was smooth and playable, with Fraps on, not so much. Almost didn't get permission to publish the video, since the guys at Ubisoft were understandably worried it might send the wrong message.

The only way that I'm aware of to capture video without that FPS-hit would be to feed the video-/audio-signals directly to an external VCR. That's how it was done in the olden days, before stuff like Fraps existed.


God, still another week to wait and he's feeding us a 109 in RAF-markings ... argh!



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LOL. Engage shifter before pressing gas, knightgames. D'oh. I knew that, just didn't pay attention. Thanks anyway, Aces High.

And his game settings?

Maximum. Just read the comments in the description of the videos.

So performance-wise, that's still OK imho. I have the same CPU and a GTX 460 and i didn't expect to run CloD at maximum settings. Can't run ROF at maximum settings either.


What's not OK though, are the IL2 '46 sounds. Atleast they only used those for the exterior view...

Short vid of contrail from Vaal:



Oh, yes, and he did the vids while on maximum settings:

"Maximum graphics settings, difficulty - on avtoupravlenie engine well, and types of external"

http://translate.google.com/translate?js...3D2&act=url

Thing is there is so many unknown.What are his ingame graphics settings?Is he usinf FRAPS or some other capture program like Playclaw?Is he recording while he is flying or records ingame demo and then takes the video with FRAPS? By looking at sukhoi forums there is few ppl who are having problems with install/prformance of the game but it's still early days and we will know when the masses in Russia install and test the game properly

Yes, found it, max settings. Probably a bit optimistic with his rig...

External sounds seem to be from IL-2 IMO. The new in-cockpit-sounds are awesome though ... love the airframe moaning when he pulls out of that vertical dive...


Hmm.. seeing his system specs suddenly fills me with lots of hope for how my rig will run CoD ...


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Some good info in there. Although according to their reports of FPS they all seem to be running FRAPs inadvertently too?

Steady men - it's early days. It could be a Quantum-like simulator, a Schrödinger's Spit, in that it's only when observed that FPS may struggle over land - try looking away and it gets faster.

There seems to be a day-0 performance patch via Steam on the Russian release - that'll put the cat among the pigeons for those wanting steamless SP?

Exciting stuff.

If using FRAPS with the sole purpose of measuring FPS, there shouldn't be an impact in performance. It's when you use it to capture the audio/video that things get messy.

I do truly hope the sounds are better than '46 stock. I just installed HSFX 5 yesterday, and sounds are excellent... really shows the gap with stock.

Hopefully the sounds are as good as what the community is freely providing for '46. And if not, hopefully the HSFX team will be fixing it ASAP after release. ;-)

It's truly a pain that the NA release date is so far behind.

It looks good for FPS to be honest given his rig and the fact he is using full detail and FRAPS to capture the video. The engine sounds are abysmal, straight from IL2 and just as crap.

External sounds are the atrocious ones from IL2 , I'm numb with horror of the 109 outside sound.

Isn't there some sort of in game frame counter like in IL2?

You can see the FRAPS frame counter in the top left (yellow) - locked at 31 which is the recording setting.

Here's the game on low settings, same hardware as before:

Potemkin trees in the latest vid.

Yes - it's the one in the top center, with avg, min, max listed after it. The FRAPS one is usually on the left with a 'digital' like font.

The debate is now that the video capture program (FRAPS) is impacting performance a lot, or that his settings are too high for his hardware (quad core @3.6, 6GB ram) or that this isn't the real release just yet and it's a RoF fan trolling. An ATI 4890 (*) is a pretty quick DX9 card, so it does look like the game for high settings will (until optimized through patches, with the rumor being a huge one is ready for today even etc) require quite a beefy setup to get playable.

Tomorrow's Oleg video update should really put all these questions to rest.

(*) If you are wondering how your card compares to the one in the video then this will help

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Basic summary is that you will see better performance if you have > GTX460 or > ATI5850 otherwise more or less the same.

Plus, to repeat to appease, there are obviously patches coming and other possible circumstances we might not know...

I don't mind most of what I'm seeing.
They are saying over in the Bannana forum that at midnight Ruskie time a 500mb patch will be released.
Maybe some more optomizing and sounds.

DCS A10 trees... I can live with that... ROF trees would be better.

I remember that when recording IL2 videos with FRAPS FPS would usually drop by about 30-50% on my system. I used to record at half speed to get better performance and then used a video editing program to double the speed again because of this. FRAPS does cause a performance hit, although it really depends on your system exactly how much.