Source Recorder Vs FRAPS

[YouShisha1393]

Even if U had 1 fps in game the recorded video always be smooth. Am I right?

[keyzongaming]

@YouShisha1393 no, no your not. you need at least 25-30 fps to have a smooth video...

[CommandoRazor]

It's like Source Recorder takes it's time and fraps wants to record quickly... big files

[firebad0]

hey dude the link is broken. This is really helpful, cause i love to record css footage, wish i could record more, but I don't know how to use the recorder

[XtremeGamer599]

fraps wins xD no really sourse recorder win

[Firenenzo]

To be honest.

Fraps is faster if your computer is.

Still, In-game recorders is still better.

[Heplooner]

@DominicHax Actually, having used Source Recorder tons, I can honestly say that while using Source Recorder, the game runs at full frames. Any other questions/misconceptions?

[Lonefaction360]

@4232267 It's because the source engine is actually pretty powerful but the texture sizes for it are outdated and thats why it is considered "old" or "bad".

[TheGuyWhoReviewGames]

question: where do you put the file of sorce recorder?

[MichaelRACER100]

so many barrels! =D

[MrLukeistheman]

There is a FREE download link to the FULL and NEWEST version of fraps on my channel, just check out my video!

[GZRProducts]

@4232267 just a joke ;)

[GZRProducts]

@4232267 having 5500000000 and 1 alienwares

[101JMOBILE]

this also depends if he's got a good computer.

[HiImSuan]

@101JMOBILE Source Recorder records the game. So however laggy your game is, thats how laggy the demo is.

[HobbaxGames]

Fraps doesnt lag, just use an uber amount of system specs to at least record decent. mine doesnt lag and uses ati radeon hd 5450

[dadobi2]

in source recorder, you can change angles too, and do some special things that no other program can do! then if you want it to avi, just record the demo xP

[xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx]

im just sticking with Nvidia GTX 560

[deadsearolls]

@xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx that has nothing to do with the video

[xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx]

@deadsearo please dont troll

[BrosGamingStudio]

i got a question doy uo think a e-ge-force 8600 gt is good

[1urbanstyle]

@BrosGamingStudio a-a

[xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx]

@BrosGamingStudio ehh wtf is that never heard of that type of G card

[TheLOGMAN02]

Mmmm... Gunz

[H4zarD1337]

u have bad pc

[erikgeorgebaker]

change the settings for fraps and it will be great :p

[Raquel101]

thank you for making this.

[xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx]

My top comment is the most fail top comment ever seen on youtube ..... it would be funny if this comment turned out to be a top comment

[superotherguy1]

How many fps was set in the source recorder?

[TheKillerExpert1]

Does this recorder works only for GarrysMod? o_o I searched for Source Recorder and I saw only GMod lol

[dillpickle1337]

@TheKillerExpert1

Its inside of Gmod, you have to use console commands to get it. Search some videos about it and they'll show you the commands.

[uymiraquebueno]

for me fraps works perfectly on 1080p, and my computer it isnt too mucho powerfull

[81nt4n9]

whats the song?

[XTGNecro]

Source Recorder ftw because its a source recorder.

nuff said.

[XxXMinecraftNerdXxX]

FRAPS FTW SIMPLE

[LPDavidx]

Fraps is the best recorder!!!

[Albert17102000]

i think Source recorder is beterly fraps cuz with fraps very many laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaags

[supersammy7000]

Source Recorder

[BaxterX7]

Source recorder is like battlerecorder for bf2. Or the halo recorder or black ops. It takes only 2-3 mb for a whole game because its just recording player actions and replaying them real time. Its actually quite simple.

[SnoweyMan111]

@BaxterX7 Um, actually that's not it. The source demo-recorder is what you described. That's not an official name, it's refered to as the demo recorder, but that's present in most every game, Unreal engine, Quake engine, COD1-5 (Mw2 didn't have it) etc etc.

Source recorder is a recorder that plays the game at a set framerate, slows it down if your PC can't handle it, speeds it up if it can and takes frames at regular intervals, then puts them togeather and adds in the audio.

Fraps=liverecordin

[jma111000]

I have the same pc as u, but mine is service pack 3

[xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx]

source recorder doesnt lag because it does not record your screen it records like the acctual source. it is very difficult to explain. fraps is practically a screen window recorder

[M5000thesdgversion]

@xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx I think I can help explain, source recorder, from my understanding, does not just take pictures of your screen every set time period like FRAPS. What it does is, since used with a source game and engine, it literally tracks the movement/position/actions/etc. of each individual piece and then compiles that into a video, it records everything from the way the explosion looks to exactly how each piece moves. I think that's the best I can do for explaining it.

[xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx]

@M5000thesdgversion it controls the player to make it look what you recorded you saying??

[viralhatred]

@M5000thesdgversion

Source Recorder takes thousands of screenshots in .tga

You then use an external program to combine those .tga files into one video and add the audio which is saved separately. This is why even a person with a bad computer can get seemingly flawless performance.

[troxmorgan]

@xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx Let me explain it then, The source recorder records actual game into a demo file. It's like the replays that games have, like Dirt, when you play those replays, you can switch camera's even though you were playing in dashboard view. And source recorder has the host-framerate command which makes your whole video render at 30fps, even if your pc lagged like fuck during all the explosions, it keeps everything stable, 25fps becomes 30, 35 fps becomes 30, it's all 30fps.

[byBushido]

@xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx I can explain this slightly better. The reason Source Recorder can play back without lag is because a .dem file is not a game VIDEO recorder, it is a game SCRIPT recorder. It records the games actions in a script, which it is then able to play back at high settings without lag. FRAPS on the other hand is exactly as you stated.

[xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx]

@byBushido exactly the script takes down every movement that you do while recording and then it recreates the scenario to look exactly like what you did while recording, but whoever made this is one smart person

[DominicHax]

@xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx Yea, pretty much because source recorder takes like 2 pictures every half a second it doesn't appear to lag in the fully upload video but, in the actual gameplay the game was just as laggy as the fraps video just the fraps video like you said records the screen instead of being slowly compiled together with virtualdub or what ever is used these days for source recorder. TLDR: source recorder is slower to compile but more smooth, fraps is fast but slow.

[FatMedicVG]

@DominicHax cant they just make one thats smooth and fast, FUCK!

[Jarge98]

@xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx It doesn't lag because it takes screenshots and compiles them into a video. if you just use "sartmovie [yourvideoname]" without "h264" in the end, your game folder is full of .TGA-screenshots

[iplaygamesl0l]

Valve suck. Breakin' everything these days.

[ratatatandbooger]

@iplaygamesl0l

Infinity Ward sucks.

Releasing overrated games.

[iplaygamesl0l]

@ratatatandbooger Infinity Ward sucks indeed.

'Money Waster' 3 is their newest title, and nothing new to it. Really stoopid.

[SergeantWTF]

@iplaygamesl0l Let me guess. Battlefeild 3 supporter... NICCCCE BRAAAA

[iplaygamesl0l]

@SergeantWTF Lemme guess. Can't spell for shit? NICE BRO!

[xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx]

@iplaygamesl0l tactical troll inbound

[iplaygamesl0l]

@xXQiKsOpz4LiFeXx Not sure if referring to me, or horrible name...

[SprDrumio64]

@iplaygamesl0l yeah Cock Of Douches: Money Wasted 3 wasn't that good, story was boring

[QuickNick555]

@iplaygamesl0l Oh, Valve sucks alright, You know because Half-life 2 didn't get one of the highest rated reviews from EVERYBODY, and they also did a horrible job creating TF2 MY FAVORITE GAME EVAR.

[travelsonic]

@QuickNick555 I think he was referring to some of the recent updating issues - like the outage that came with the last steam update, or a Gmod - and not valve/steam - issue every time Garry updates the software where he breaks GMod requiring users wait for him to fix it, etc.

[iplaygamesl0l]

@QuickNick555 Oh, they make amazing games. No doubt. But, Half Life 2 Episode 3 has been delayed for 3 years now. Sure, they're liking putting a lot of effort into it. That, or they're not making it. Perhaps they could release some more information, rather than just a picture?

Team Fortress 2 is a good game. But they stole someones map during last years Halloween update crap, and claimed the map as their own.

And there's thousands of other downsides to them. Steam being a perfect example.

[o8jacksond]

WoW your Coputer is a BEAST what you got dood

[Xezium]

some of these comments make me want to kill a bunch of people

specifically the posters

[Jibrankiddy]

They both suck! gamcam is what you should bbe gazing at

[Blox5320]

@Jibrankiddy tell me where can you get gamecam ive been looking for a looong time but google keeps derping up on me

[Jibrankiddy]

@Blox5320 gamecam v2 search it on google and go to the web

[Andkill2]

it looks like source recorder is a game

[JDahlHD]

@Andkill2 source recorder is in EVERY game that runs on the source engine Counter strike half life team fortress 2 etc

[sourdiesel141]

now if could only figure out how to use source on windows 7 ಠ_ಠ

[9911MU51C]

@sourdiesel141 epic face is epic

[JDahlHD]

@sourdiesel141 source recorder is the same on EVERY operating system

[Supercoolamazingdude]

song?

[CompilationsHD]

source recorder is better it doesnt lag like hell

[ZinKKyyHD]

@CompilationsHD Depends on what settings you have set your fraps on... You cant set 60 FPS on Fraps without having a good computer and source recorder does only work for some games.

[MrXthemusic2]

source recorder is awsome you can record a video with great quality without lag unlike fraps >_> back when i had a shit comp i used source recorder to make videos

[Styroksipaprika]

I just finished a gmod video but the quality was so bad with Fraps so I should've used Source Recorder X_x There goes 2 hours of work.

[Descr1ptioN]

the fraps recorder low becasue u put hin on 30 FPS

[ant64423]

source recorder wins.. FATALITY

[jetpack1986]

frame loss is a small price to pay for one click recording!

[PlayPrey]

Did u know, source recorder does something special so it dont lagg when video is fully done! fraps dont have time to do that because it records and saves at the same time.. so fraps is a pretty good recorder, with Camtasia and use normal Web rendering, it will fall from maybe 15 gb to 50 mb :D

[isorSOT]

@PlayPrey Source recorder recording every frame of game,so,there is no lags on video

[PlayPrey]

@isorSOT thats sorta what i said.. fraps cant record every frame because its more difficult for fraps than source recorder in source games. :)

[isorSOT]

@PlayPrey hmm,well,i know,that you can render a video with Fraps,but video can be about 40 GB of size before render =)

[Vadkoubivadko]

I prefer combining Fraps with Source Recorder.

I mean if i need to use Source Recorder, i will "render" demo with Fraps anyways.

Result: Good Quality, No lag.

[VenomFrogPwned]

at the end of the video u can see how much FRAPS lagged.

its off by a second or so.

[JBfansful]

where is the Source Recorder ?

[sporister]

@JBfansful It comes with every game that runs on the soruce engine. look up for a guide on how to use it.

[MegaSean45]

I'm telling my friend about this! He wants to record the Coastline to Atomosphere mod, and it's laggy in some parts. I gotta tell him this!

[fsxsimmer20]

howd you get the 2 videos side by side???

[mangoleeallan]

Same video on both sides but out of sink.

[SaberCowInk]

Source Recorder win. Especially since you can record the Demo in a Low res biut Export it in High res with AntiAliasing and additional effects that would cause lag in fraps.

[iani103]

It looked Like Fraps Was Lagging... ALOT...

Sourse Recorder looked kinda nice ;D

[soniczubat]

SOURCE RECORDER IS DELICIOUS

NOM NOM

FRAPS IS VEERY BAD

[rndGSp]

fraps works better on good hardware, i never get any lag like this o.O

[catfat17]

how do you get it to record your computers sound and not you

[RestInTwoPieces]

Can someone explain me what a source game means?

[Tillifa]

my source recorder didnt work :( i did a test vid and it worked fine but them it ried a campaign and it wasnt ther T_T plz help!

[LPsoldierz123]

Source recorder - Best quality, Best smoothness best everything

Fraps - Just sucks...

[Linkman90]

@Mateuuuuusz Er... actually, Source Recorder is full quality as well... It all depends on how you use source recorder, you can choose full quality, or you can compress it.

[Downfromzero]

@Mateuuuuusz

I think I might have to downvote for misinformation. Source Recorder is most of the time, BETTER quality.

[Wep0n]

@Mateuuuuusz It's not hard to use. All you need to know is how to get console and the commands "startmovie" and "endmovie"

[Mateuuuuusz]

@Wep0n I said hardER, not hard. It's easy to use Source Recorder, but using Fraps is alot simplier.

[Wep0n]

@Mateuuuuusz nevermind, must have misread it.. Yeah, pressing a simple button is easier than typing in some commands, right.

[MasterOfTheXP]

@Mateuuuuusz "Fraps - better quality"

............HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH­AHAHAHAHHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHHAHAHAHHHA

no

Also, you forgot that it costs money and puts a watermark and limits you to 30 seconds if you don't pay. Sometimes I wonder if Bobby Kotick made it.

Only reason I still have Fraps is for Minecraft, which has no dedicated recorder.

[Mateuuuuusz]

@MasterOfTheXP Fraps is better for making movies in G-Mod. I mean movies like DasBoShitt's. He uses Fraps and quality is very good. Source recorder video is a lot smoother, but making it is much longer.

[TheBMXracer445]

@Mateuuuuusz Um, source recorder has a better quality than FRAPS

[Mateuuuuusz]

@TheBMXracer445 No, Source Recorder makes video smooth, no framerate looses. Fraps video has best quality possible and Source Recorder video is quite greyer (than Fraps's). Sometimes I use Source Recorder and sometimes Fraps and I see difference.

[TheBMXracer445]

@Mateuuuuusz Er, nevermind I see the quality in fraps

[eventfularse]

@Mateuuuuusz Use Xvid compressor. Excellent quality, sound and picture alike. Excellent FPS.

[RaplorZ]

@Mateuuuuusz ok klar Fraps ist leichter zu bedinen aber der source recorder hat keine schlechte quali du must lediglich host_framerate auf 90 stellen bäng super quali

[SnoweyMan111]

@Mateuuuuusz Wow, hopefully you grew a brain in these 10 months I mean really. compressed to AVI>Raw image files and raw sound quality?

[Mateuuuuusz]

@SnoweyMan111 WOW, unfortunately, you are a moron, I mean really.

I picked the best quality in Source Recorder and recorded the same video with Fraps. Both had great quality, but Fraps hat a little bit better. Can't explain why, just Fraps video looked a little bit better for me.

[SnoweyMan111]

@Mateuuuuusz Fraps recording sometimes come out darker (look at some comparison videos, people complain but it's not edited), which is really strange. But that doesn't make fraps higher quality. It simply doesn't deliver what it's supposed to. And you like that change apparently.

And you have no right to call me a moron because you contradict facts.

Maybe you didn't encode it correctly, you need a good codec for Source recorder. Fraps doesn't let you choose.

[Claytongp97]

Ive had my issues with both of these methods.

Fraps is much more laggy than source recorder, because it's recording the gameplay while you play the game,

But even though source recorder makes the frames smoother, it has issues, like how it doesnt work with some addons like slow motion, for example, I was going to record a sample of me using the "Dear sister swep" but the slow motion was never recorded, and the song played over top of the gameplay that was done after the slow motion,

[KesoDia]

i love red hot chili peppers :3

[killervalonz]

This is stupid, Source Recorder videos are rendered... lame

[Robozarm]

IT would depend actually. Fraps is MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH easier, good for making small non-laggy scenes, while source recorder is for Heavy Duty explosions and lag, with FPS smoothing.

[nine9live5]

firecrackers!!!



[UltimateKostasTV1]

Well too bad that Fraps win because source recorder is only for SOURCE GAMES

[Ninja0Pain]

my source recorder avi files wont read :(

[latvietis164]

demo noob

[juanpablotito]

wait what was that gun?

[TheRawley]

Source Recorder = Free

FRAPS = Paid

Free is better than paid

[pplk23]

@TheRawley Source Recorder is paid with any Source game, so its just integrated with the cost, along with SDK+Base

[DrasarSalman]

I prefer WeGame more than fraps!

[FuZ0Filmz]

@DrasarSalman The only thing that sucks about WeGame, you have to buy it now to use Full Screen recording. :/

[iagorockboy]

i use fraps all the time but whenever i use it on any game or source game it dosn't lag like the preview

[lkhrizl]

Fraps for source engine games = Thumbs down

For non-source games = Thumbs up

i think valve made source recorder to counter fraps when making gameplay trailers

[Lukasmbtv]

This vid is racist to my crappy PC. If I did this with mine, it would crash and never turn back on.

[lkhrizl]

@Lukasmbtv there's really smart people who they have a big shit computer and they make damn good movies with the source recorder

[Synergy9k]

Explosions.

Explosions everywhere.

[rcfetish]

fraps is ok if your not spaming shit

[304Stephen]

As soon as I saw that they were the exact same video, i instantly concluded that you did them both side by side recording with both at the same time.

At one point fraps is about 1 second behind due to lag XD

[NessPKThunder]

Fraps is good quality if you put it in a editing program like Sony Vegas.

[Shadow207B2]

source recorder, fraps looks kinda crappier graphics and it slower

[FUNderbirds]

Right, Either this is fake or you recorderd the fraps movie over the source recorder one because they are both exactly the same movie

[Linkman90]

@FUNderbirds actually, it is MUCH simpler than that. I recorded a demo of my gameplay, then I ran the demo back, recording it with FRAPS one time, and recording it with Source Recorder the 2nd time.

Result: Same gameplay, completely different videos. :)

[kitty7092]

@Linkman90 you didn't change the fps and you didn't buy the full version

[GamingForGames]

@FUNderbirds the source recorder record the direct gameplay it dosent copy like game recorders do its much betther than any recorder

[molo265]

@FUNderbirds newb

[GzeroArchives]

dude you got good specs. Id prefer fraps on that computer, Its not like ima do extreme action scenes

[bbuubbi]

i am recording whit fraps and the fraps is youst stealing like 30 FPS!

[henryadodo]

@bbuubbi and -30fps is much if u have 450-800 fps?

[jakethesnakefilms]

how do you post your videos recorded by source recorder on youtube

[bl00dyspIE]

You can really see the difference at the explosion

[HL2Hunter90]

Fuck Fraps i hated them since i discovered them worse recorder ever

[nhcre8tv1]

where do you find your source videos? like in what file or whatever

[TheJarich]

fraps is bad



[YoutuJ3eJ3lows]

Fraps records realtime, and Source records like it's simulating it, and making it into a movie.

[TheRogy577]

this can be crosseyed 3d :D

[choa91]

YOU ARE FUCK HEAVY WILL FUCK YOU

[counterafk]

how do you get source recorder, or where you do you buy it?

[smil8888]

@counterafk It is built into source games, such as Half life 2, Garrysmod, Counter strike source, and so on

[flyingcheesestudios]

Ok.... Fraps records realtime, while source recorder renders every frame 1 by 1. Fraps is great. But its not for recording laggy videos. Its for recording normal videos.

[UnDeadSplicerXD]

Do a barrel roll

[superaj22]

@UnDeadSplicerXD I agree

[isorSOT]

hi =) when i use source recorder the video is laggy,emm,maybe not laggy,just some frame skipping,why is it?

[Isakuma]

Super smooth looking! Did you lag at all doing it?

[TheExdel]

Yes, Source Recorded does have a lot of better FPS, and smoother video, because it includes Motion Blur in the video you recorded.

[rerundadog]

Source recorder is beautiful,no homo, but its a pain in the ass to do clip by clip videos like machinimas. If your planing on recording a nuke, source recorder. If your planing on making a machinima, fraps.

[whatsfordinner62]

say i have a really laggy computer, will source recorder make it smoother? and faster?

[Linkman90]

@whatsfordinner62 It will be the smoothest possible video. :)

[whatsfordinner62]

@Linkman90 damnit why did i buy fraps.

[Linkman90]

@whatsfordinner62 For every other non-source game you want to record. :) I have FRAPS as well, and I hold no grudges against it, but if you are trying to record a source game, there is no reason you should use FRAPS. ;)

[DarkMarxmanXx]

@whatsfordinner62 lol i got fraps for free and its not torrent

[gadalia10]

FRAPS=FPS=Frames Per Second/First Person Shooter =D

[Pyroney]

The bottom line is, Fraps records in realtime, Source Recorder does not.

[JoiSCSs]

fraps is laggy source recorder ftw !!!!

[TheFXGuy]

obviously the source recorder will be smoother. it's working in virtually the same way as a 3D program, rendering and saving each frame to a file, while fraps is running at the same time as the game and taking 30 images every second.

Also, you said that Fraps doesn't break 40 fps. That depends on your configuration. For instance, I have an alienware m15x gaming laptop and it stays between 50-60 fps in Oblivion (haven't tried gmod) at 720p. What're your specs?

[Linkman90]

@TheFXGuy Good point, I didn't specifically say that in this particular test it didn't break 40fps, you are correct, it can easily do 60fps with the right hardware setup, I am just saying that for most people with low-mid rate machines, this is a great alternative to FRAPS.

The setup for the current computer I have is different from the one I used to record that a while back, but at the time, that was a mid-end computer with decent specs.