How much space do I need for 12 hours of continuous recording on fraps at 720p and 1080p respectively

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lolhate

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As title says, I'm not planning on buying that much space yet, but sometimes I would really like to be able to record for 12 hours when, for say, I want to make a let's play but I don't want to pause 50 times in it and finish the game 20 days after I wanted to finish it.

I normally don't play games for 12 hours, but three hours is definitely likely.
 
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getochkn

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Probably a lot. Fraps doesn't compress video from what I recall, so it's just pretty raw video which takes up a ton of space. If your serious about it, a dedicated capture card would be better as some of them compress on the fly and also take the offload off your CPU.
 
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That I agree with, but let's go for interest purpose.

When I record with fraps it's about 100 GB per 60 minutes, but I'm not sure how it scales up.
 
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it probably scales pretty linear since it's uncompressed, and even compressed, scaling is pretty linear.
 
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But then also factor in a few things.

Trying to open up a 1.2 TB file to edit out stuff, add txt overlays, audio comments, etc is going to tax an system because of RAM. Even if you have 16 or 32 or 64 GB, 1.2TB is going to slow that to a crawl.


If at any point during the 12 hours that fraps crashes, depending on how it writes the video file, you may get 11 hours in, it crashes and the file can't be opened because it wasn't closed off properly and it's all lost.


Your better off doing it in chunks.
 
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Fraps by default splits the file every 4 GB so that issue is not a problem
 
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