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I am running Fraps 3.2.2. and notice that every time I hit F9 to begin recording video, the in-game text chat vanishes.  Pressing Y doesn't bring it back.  When I quit the recording with F9, text chat immediately reappears.  Does anyone know what's going on with the game or Fraps?

 

EDIT: Dammit, never mind, I'm an idiot.  I must have searched Google 20 times for this before posting.  I tried searching one last time after posting and found this thread: http://forum.ets2mp.com/index.php?/topic/479-problem-while-recording-with-fraps/  and the solution is: "Because you press F9. Change in FRAPS recording key to another, eg. Home."  Sorry, I'd delete this if there was an option for it, but maybe this will help someone.

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Does OBS produce smaller files?  I've never liked the way Fraps produces gigabyte files in only 30 seconds, but I guess encoding uses lots of CPU.

 

I like the idea of Shadowplay and want my next card to have something like that.

 

Yes, you can change quality settings in OBS. That's one of the reasons I used OBS over Fraps when I had an AMD card, lower file sizes, more options.

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Does OBS produce smaller files?  I've never liked the way Fraps produces gigabyte files in only 30 seconds, but I guess encoding uses lots of CPU.

 

I like the idea of Shadowplay and want my next card to have something like that.

AMD has a similar feature, I believe it's called Rapter but is basically uses a rolling record scheme of about 2 minutes and when you press a certain key-combo, the current 2 minutes of video are saved on disk.

As I have an NVidia card I can't tell you exactly how Rapter works, but I heard it's very similar. 

 

I must admit that ShadowPlay isn't great for steaming live records, OBS is better at that, but not everybody has the desire to stream their journeys..

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