Hey neat, I loved this.
Now if only I could get better framerates out of GW2 with FRAPS (I might just need to lower my settings slightly.) I keep getting around 22-24 when I really need around 30. It's probably because it's writing so much to my harddrive and GW2 doesn't like that. Perhaps I just need to turn off vertical sync.
Anyway, as I said with my comment on the video: I recently interviewed Satchmo in Minecraft (GW2 wouldn't obey us) and I really loved his description of how he uses MMO games to socialize and how he had a great time fighting an epic dragon boss.
Some tips incase you didn't know, may help you record a bit easier!
If you have two hard drives, have your game running on one, with your movies saving to another. Set the GW2 priority setting in task manager to "High", best way to figure things out your pc's performance, set your graphics options to 'auto-detect' and then tone down from there. I've found out you can make the game run beautifully and look just as good by having your settings as:
Animation: Low
Anti-Aliasing: Off (this really doesn't make that much of a difference 'visually' it just smooths out edges.
Environment: Medium
LOD Distance: Low
Reflections: None
Textures: High
Rendering: Native
Shadows: Medium
Shaders: Medium
Post-Processing: Off
Best Texture: Off
Blur: Off
High Res: Off
Vertical Sync: Off
My PC can handle high, but when recording I generally tone it down to that. The game still looks beautiful, but it runs smooth aswell. All the unnecessary things like anti-aliasing reflections, distance, blur, post-processing, really doesn't make THAT much of a difference, especially in videos, so you can
usually cut them out all together. Anti-aliasing is more suited to screen shots, but because you're constantly moving in a video game, chances are you don't see the smoothed out edges.
Hope that helps, thanks for the comments <3
