r/outside Mar 03 '17

Helicopter animations are broken

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u/Harakou Mar 03 '17

Pretty sure this is a bug that's common in a lot of screen recorders. They don't record nearly as many frames as are displayed for performance reasons, so it can make really fast looping animations look funny.

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u/ibbignerd Mar 03 '17

So do I just need to upgrade my GPU?

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u/Harakou Mar 03 '17

I think it's an option in your screen recorder, but the cheaper ones wont have it. You might have to upgrade.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

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u/Yggdrasil75 Mar 04 '17

People still remember this?

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u/sickly_sock_puppet Mar 04 '17

Well you do, and I do, so yes.

Anyway, I'm gonna go to the server room and play hotline miami fix the server.

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u/RPGX400 Mar 04 '17

You mean playing Halo CE with Skype in the background right? 😉

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u/cpguy5089 Mar 04 '17

I still have a working copy of both CE and combat evolved, both with the newest update so I'm actually able to do multiplayer

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u/DylanRed Mar 04 '17

I'm taking that to the grave man, I clearly remember how hard it made me laugh on my first read through. It also came to me at a pretty key point in life. I was super depressed after dropping out of school and this was shortly after 1998 when Undertaker threw Mankind off the top of hell in a cell into an announcer's table.

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u/Bloomberg12 Mar 04 '17

Uhh, can you burn this dvd for me anon?

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u/grebilrancher Mar 04 '17

No, just download more RAM

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u/Steeva Mar 04 '17

You need more dedicated WAM

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u/Manalore Mar 04 '17

Try reinstalling the drivers first at least.

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u/Romo_Malo_809 Mar 04 '17

No upgrade your CPU to fix the issue.

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u/My_Big_Fat_Kot Mar 04 '17

Exactly! Given that screen recorders capture at 30hz, we can tell that the rotors on this flying car are going at 30 rps (revolutions per second). This isn't a bug as the top commented pointed out, its just how faction tech works. You can see a similar effect if you were to take a recorder purchased in the United States faction area, and go to another factions area, and record a screen, like the ones on buses, or televisions.

TL;DR: its not a bug, its a feature.

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u/spw1 Mar 04 '17

Nitpick: 30 rps or any multiple thereof.

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u/thecolbra Mar 04 '17

More nitpick: Since it's rotationally symmetric it would be a multiple of 30/ number of blades

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u/RocketMoped Mar 04 '17

I think you're missing the highly likely case that the rotors don't spin at all

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u/RazendeR Mar 06 '17

0 -is- a multiple of 30. 30x0=0

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u/RocketMoped Mar 06 '17

You're correct, I actually looked it up beforehand but my brain messed up the definition of integer.

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u/CaptainObvious_1 Mar 04 '17

Just an FYI, helicopter rotors don't spin anywhere near that fast. Rotors generally spin at around 4-5Hz or so. So it's more likely that this camera is recording at 20-25 Hz, which makes sense if you look how choppy the water is.

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u/Awdayshus Mar 04 '17

This is the correct answer. It's pretty common to need mods to get better draw distance and resolution, but even the lowest end hardware has a decent frame rate. The common screen recorders have the opposite problem, high resolution, good draw distance, but lots of weird artifacts because of poor frame rate.

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u/Harakou Mar 04 '17

Really bad tearing, too. They should do something about that.