ePSXe Not Working Well With Fraps

[Squash]

I have spent nearly 5 hours desperately researching, looking around, asking an IT friend of mine, and constantly tweaking everything on this emulator that i can, but for the life of me, I am at a loss.

The issue at hand is simple. Im trying to record Final Fantasy 9 played from ePSXe using Fraps 3.0 to record it. When I started up Fraps up everything is fine. Regardless of what FPS is set fraps to record at, everything at first is fine. When i run around in game its great, when i speak to NPCs its fine. But then when i get into a battle, things go awry. The game will literally run at half speed. my FPS gets shot in the head and put in the back alley. To put it mildly, i get boned.

Just so i can answer a few troubleshooting questions. No i do not have a ****ty computer. It cant run NASA, but i built the thing 2 years ago for a modest price to run Crysis w/o much issue (and it still can)

Win7 64-bit
4g DDR2 RAM
2.6 Dual Core AMD
500g HD
NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX+ 256MB

For the life of me i cant figure out the problem. I know fraps destroys computers. But I record PC games with Fraps and still get around 25 FPS. But with EPSXE ONLY in battle i get 10-12. when its outside of it its at a stable 30FPS. I can upload the video ive captured if need be

If you guys know something i dont i would love any help you can give. Ive also tried CamStudio and it still chugs down like a mofo.

Thanks in advance

[Lex_Light]

Try Camtasia Studio, or else Growler Guncam. ;)

[masta.g.86]

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Turn on the 'Don't Sync with Audio' option.

With that option turned off, Fraps will limit the game's speed to the set recording speed. This can cause problems with games that have a frame-based speed limitation like many of the PS1 era games.

[Squash]

i meant to say i also used Camstasia. Same issue

Just did the dont sync audio option. didnt change a thing. any other ideas on whats wrong?

im beginning to think its the emulator its self. Fraps works fine else wise. But i like ePSXe a lot. ive heard some say that its more of a just play by yourself thing, and doesnt do well with recording.

[masta.g.86]

Post your video plugin settings.

[Squash]

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+/PCI/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x720 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 2
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 2
- TexWin pixel shader: on
- VRam size: 256 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: off
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 2
- Framebuffer uploads: 1

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 1/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

[masta.g.86]

I just tried it out myself. It's not working for me either.

The 'Don't Sync with Audio' option is supposed to keep Fraps from locking the framerate, (causing the slowdowns) but it's as if the option is broken in v3.0. (I also tried updating to v3.03 and it's still broken)

I know for a fact that this worked fine in the earlier 2.xx versions of Fraps...