FRAPS has always been the weapon of choice by gamers when it comes to video capture and it has gone uncontested for quite some time now. There really isn't any video capture software that can offer the same quality the way FRAPS can thanks to its nearly lossless codec. However this high quality capture comes at a price...a huge one in terms of performance as FRAPS is know to even make the strongest systems out there crawl capturing video in real-time at 1280x720 and above especially when in-game settings are set to high with AA/AF turned on. In short if you want to capture real-time videos in high definition and in high quality then you need a monster system, otherwise you either have to turn down the detail by a lot or simply record in low definition. The choice has been like this forever and frankly gamers don't want to make that choice anymore as they both want to play their games with details turned up while recording it in high definition. Thankfully a new challenger comes in t...
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Never tried recording with Fraps, however any quad core equipped with recent midrange(GTX 460, 5850, 6850etc) gpus can easily push over a 100fps in most games today @ 1080p. I dont see how much of a hit those systems can take while recording to make games unplayable.
You generally find most people suffer performance hits because they're recording to the same hdd that their games are running from, and that their CPU and GPU load isn't increasing much at all.
Even running cross drive you take a huge performance hit. I am running Quad GPUs in a Falcon Mach V with 12GB of RAM topped by an Intel 3GB system and it takes a massive nose dive. That's why I have always stuck with a Hauppage (for consoles)or a Black Magic Pro (for PC capture) running into a second system.
I've been using fraps for years. But yea it does kill my performance in game.
Uhm...I tried fraps and playclaw on dead space 2. And fraps is making my pc play the game in 10-40 fps and it splitts videos too often. And when that happen FPS goes below 10 for 2-3 secs. With Playclaw I had 60 FPS all the way with no problems at all.