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Zygar

Has anyone else done this?

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I had been recording footage in Doom 3 a a few days ago with Fraps. Now, I never restart my computer, and I forgot Fraps was running (not recording though.)
Now, today, I was in Comms transfer in the crawlspace and I saw the skeleton. I took a screenshot, with F12. This was my fraps start recording button also. The game slowed down a tiny bit, but not noticeably cause my computer is l33t, so I didn't notice anything wrong.
I encountered the chainsaw dudes, which was quite funny, especially the way they run around like spastics making gorilla noises while trying to cut you into pieces, I had a chainsaw duel with one and then tried to save.
"Not enough hard drive space," it said.
I was obviously confused so I exited Doom 3. Then I saw 2 new icons on my desktop. They were both avi files. I right click on one and sure enough, it's about 4gb, and the other one is about 1.5gb. I open them up and between them there is 1/2 an hour of footage! I thought it was quite amusing that I managed to use all my free hard drive space without noticing.
So has anyone else done this?

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I am a big Nascar Racing 2003 fan. I've made plenty of videos using Fraps and a program called Movie Studio XP. However I make sure to save the footage on a seperate hard drive. That sucker fills up quick.

BTW.... check the video again. Are any chainsaw dudes wearing party hats? lol

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Good grief. It is ridiculous that we, the players, have to mess with this issue (file size). I really, really hope id does something about it. That or OSP or something...

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Mogul said:

Good grief. It is ridiculous that we, the players, have to mess with this issue (file size). I really, really hope id does something about it. That or OSP or something...

What does id have to do with FRAPS method of recording?

This does remind me of something though. Has anyone noticed that Doom3 saves are friggin huge?

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Yeah, I've got quite a bit of harddrive space dedicated to Carmageddon movies. Can you tell?

I might be making a montage later.

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Amaster said:

This does remind me of something though. Has anyone noticed that Doom3 saves are friggin huge?

Notice how big the execute is? 5.17 megs. Sheesh.

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Amaster said:

What does id have to do with FRAPS method of recording?

This does remind me of something though. Has anyone noticed that Doom3 saves are friggin huge?


You shouldn't have to use Fraps to get in-game footage. That's the problem... DOOM 3 has a demo-to-.avi converter in its console, yet the demos are so broken, there's no point in making an avi of it.

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Mr. Chris said:

Use Half-size for video

I was, that's why I didn't notice that it was happening.

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Deathmatcher said:

The editor is in there as well.


not to mention the other two programs (gui and script editors)

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AVI is the monster of the movies
try to change them to MPG or DIVX and there you go!
you will save like.. 75% of the space..
DR.DIVX works very good btw, and its not that expensive..

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Shadowfox said:

Your computer isn't that "l33t" if you only have 5.5 gigs of free space.


How much free space he has, has nothing to do with how good of a PC he has. He could have an 80GB HD. 20 for DooM stuff, 55 for porn and 5 free. Ya never know.

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I download a LOT of mods for games like UT2004. My UT2k4 directory, infact, is nearly 9gb.

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