Allegiance through the eyes of a newbie

One-Man-Bucket · Post by **One-Man-Bucket** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:56 am

Fraps used to crash for me when games ended. Haven't tried in a year though.

And I agree that this video should be mandatory for all vets to watch. Give the noobs commands, they love to press that insert button!

Post by **Dome** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:59 am

OMB your FAO inbox is full...

Monkage · Post by **Monkage** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:49 pm

TurkeyXIII wrote:QUOTE (TurkeyXIII @ Dec 20 2012, 03:03 AM) If you fly with the same resolution as the endgame screen (800x600?) then it won't change screen modes and won't crash. Squirg did it like that too.

There might also be an obscure combination of hardware that can prevent the crash, but I'm not sure.

YouTube doesn't convert 800x600 to 720p. The highest resolution YouTube will convert 800x600 to is 480p, which looks like crap. The next step up in Alleg, 1024x768 does convert to 720p on YouTube, and it's pretty much the bare minimum these days.

I have had days where Fraps doesn't crash on the resolution switch, but I'm not sure why. It may have something to do with when recording starts. I'll be investigating this more thoroughly soon.

Jeruwafi · Post by **Jeruwafi** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:03 pm

To our coders:

Would it be possible to rescale/stretch lobby in software instead of switching resolution?

I remember playing a game where one could disable resolution switches and choose whether he wants to preserve static menus 1:1 (black bars filling the rest) or stretch it (with or without preserving aspect ratio)...

I believe it would fix this issue.

raumvogel · Post by **raumvogel** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:31 pm

We don't need to fix the issue. Just stop frapping before you exit.

Jeruwafi · Post by **Jeruwafi** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:34 am

It would also help people with quirky HW/driver setups that don't handle resolution switches and stretching smoothly :-)
It can also be annoying in certain multi-monitor setups.

But I agree, not really an issue.

TurkeyXIII · Post by **TurkeyXIII** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:18 am

Jeruwafi wrote:QUOTE (Jeruwafi @ Dec 21 2012, 01:03 AM) To our coders:

Would it be possible to rescale/stretch lobby in software instead of switching resolution?

I remember playing a game where one could disable resolution switches and choose whether he wants to preserve static menus 1:1 (black bars filling the rest) or stretch it (with or without preserving aspect ratio)...

I believe it would fix this issue.

I've made a ticket for it (here), but it's low priority.

Monkage · Post by **Monkage** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 3:30 am

raumvogel wrote:QUOTE (raumvogel @ Dec 20 2012, 06:31 PM) We don't need to fix the issue. Just stop frapping before you exit.

Right, because the other team always announces on all chat when they are resigning. Get a clue please.

Vortrog · Post by **Vortrog** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:36 am

I refuse to stop fapping until I exit!

Monkage · Post by **Monkage** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:53 am

Monkage wrote:QUOTE (Monkage @ Dec 20 2012, 08:49 AM) YouTube doesn't convert 800x600 to 720p. The highest resolution YouTube will convert 800x600 to is 480p, which looks like crap. The next step up in Alleg, 1024x768 does convert to 720p on YouTube, and it's pretty much the bare minimum these days.

I have had days where Fraps doesn't crash on the resolution switch, but I'm not sure why. It may have something to do with when recording starts. I'll be investigating this more thoroughly soon.

I did some testing but I wasn't able to figure out what keeps alleg from crashing on the resolution switch. To resolve the issue I'm just going to fraps everything at 800x600 and rescale to 960x720 before uploading to YouTube. That seems to work.