Darucas: Well, I'm just beginning the campaign... and even so, just a few minutes ago the camera bug reappeared, aaand then disappeared when I launched the game again. Whyyy?

Another LucasArts game which seems a bit temperamental! (I'm beginning to think it's one of their trademarks...)

Hopefully, as you say, there are multiple views...

Darucas: If you have an nVidia card (or Optimus with the game set to use nVidia), maybe this will help (solution given in comments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKHn8PLEJBs ):

- open nVidia control panel, and select the game profile for Rogue Squadron
- then change : Max pre-rendered frames = 1 ; Mixed GPU acceleration = Single display performance ; Triple buffering = off

I've found that under windows 8.1 there is no such bug, however if you apply one of the fixes given here http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/post.php?topic=99477&post=1202630 - which are meant to fix performance issues - the camera bug does appear. Using the above tweaks may help in this case too.

Do not play the game with anything open in the background, like Firefox. This seems to undo the nVidia fix.

AdrenAlineSK: The only thing that worked for me with 100% reliability was using FRAPS like in the video (and I tried everything - nGlide, compatibility, nVidia Control Panel etc.). For info, I use Windows 7 64bit.

Just start recording (F9) during the intro cutscene before each mission. After the cutscene (or when you end it by pressing enter), stop recording in-game.

Doesn't work with the bonus missions since they don't have cutscenes, but you will not be using the hyper-fast A-Wing in those.
To minimize HDD usage configure FRAPS so it records only half-sized videos without sound.

EDIT: Also, on the Xbox360 controller, you can remap X button from throttle to F9, since the right trigger is throttle as well.

AdrenAlineSK: I can't seem to get the program working with Rogue Squadron. I tried in Global profile and I also tried adding a ROGUE.exe profile to the program, but not even the fps counter shows up, nevermind limiting the fps. Am I missing something?

AdrenAlineSK: Well I'll be a bantha's uncle, it works! (sorry for the delay, I'm having a busy Saturday)

First thing's first: as a new profile in RivaTuner, I had to add Rogue Squadron.exe, from the ROGUE folder. My ROGUE.exe (the GOG shortcut also runs this file) actually runs the game launcher first, so Riva ignores the application no matter what (I tried setting application detection level to High, but it didn't work). Otherwise, I set everything up as you wrote it.

I tried this with two missions - Battle above Taloraan and Beggar's Canyon. Taloraan has a cutscene, Canyon doesn't. Both use fast ships (A-Wing and T16 respectively).

When I set the FPS to 30, the game became somewhat choppy, so I set it to 60. And voila, the 3rd person camera follows the craft! Although, the F3 cam is still shit, the F1 option works wonderfully now. It ain't perfect, it takes its time when you slow down and accelerate rapidly, but it never hangs and always catches up with your ship. It suddenly became very usable. (For info, I only used V-Sync from the in-game options menu, the RivaTuner application and no other external or internal tweaks).

I must say that with FRAPS (at least for me) the F3 cam works better. But F1 cam with RivaTuner is just as good really, maybe even better since it gets really close to your ship when you brake, which helps you avoid obstacles. And you don't have to record during cutscenes, delete useless videos etc.

So yeah, it works! You just have to use the F1 cam. Thanks guartrainer :)