Fraps causing FPS spikes on new build - help!

Zumi0

Zumi0

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Hi,

So I built my new computer at start of January, it's pretty top end. I am having some issues with fraps however, I am getting fps spikes every so often, for no apparent reason. The fps just drops rapidly, then goes back to normal, and it records absolutely perfectly until the next spike. I have been recording WoW, so not exactly the most graphical intensive game (though how much of it will be to do with graphics capability as opposed to HDD/CPU capability I do not know). My specs are as follows:

i5 2500k @ 4.3 ghZ

ASUS Direct cu ii ati 6950 (flashed to 6970) @ 900mhz core + 1375mhz memory speed

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply

I just have no idea why my setup has this issue. I wouldv'e thought fraps would be a doddle for it. I have twiddled with the fraps settings a lot, tried high frame rate capture, fps spikes were frequent, lowered to 30fps (lowest setting) and fps spikes were less frequest and less intense, but still there. If I record at half size (half the file size and extremely lowered video quality) the spikes do not happen which leads me to believe it may be hard drive related. It is not any addons that I am using in WoW, as I disabled them all and the fps spikes still happened. I also lowered the graphics settings - nothing really changed.

What do you guys think? Do you think I need to buy another hard drive, is it possible I am capping the I/O on my current harddrive whilst frapsing, causing the drive to have to "catch-up" which is causing the fps spiking? I am lost on this one. Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
It's better to use a different HD for the fraps output. With fraps my settings are 60fps and full size with game resolution @ 1080p, will be about 75MB/s so the quicker the better. I had all sorts of weirdness when trying limit it to 30fps/half size etc so I just gave up and record at full rate.

With our 25man raid, with a comparable machine to yours, mine has a 5850 and a [email protected], and at times things can slow down some. These are mainly when stacking up and going all out with spell effects etc, heroism to is a good one to give some performance issues.

I'm going to try the 64bit client that's just been released as it does seem smoother for what little time I used it - it may help.
 
Thanks for replying.

I just uploaded my first video to youtube you can see the problem I am having. www.youtube.com/ZumioNET. The fps spikes you see in the footage are the issue.

I am definitely thinking about buying a SSD now (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-047-OC&groupid=701&catid=2104&subcat=910 looking likely).

I have a question - would I have to basically reformat my current mechanical hard drive and just start from scratch? or is there any easy way to port over all my files and settings and OS straight to the SSD? I know you can't just copypasta the drive as it will mess up the registry.

Appreciate any replies
 
OK first up video recording is extremely intensive in particular on I/O, so no matter how powerful your processor you are still likely to run into issues with a pretty basic mechanical drive like that.

In terms of deploying to a SSD the best option is to do a clean install onto the SSD with AHCI enabled and your mechanical HD unplugged, then once Windows is installed plug the mechanical drive back in and start porting over your files. Windows does have some sort of built in file/settings transfer option but personally I wouldn't trust it and would rather start from a clean slate.
 
HangTime said:
OK first up video recording is extremely intensive in particular on I/O, so no matter how powerful your processor you are still likely to run into issues with a pretty basic mechanical drive like that.

In terms of deploying to a SSD the best option is to do a clean install onto the SSD with AHCI enabled and your mechanical HD unplugged, then once Windows is installed plug the mechanical drive back in and start porting over your files. Windows does have some sort of built in file/settings transfer option but personally I wouldn't trust it and would rather start from a clean slate.
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Really? It's just my friend fraps's wow and annoyingly his computer is far worse than mine, he even records to same hdd but it works for him. My motherboard has 2x 6gb/s sata connections if that makes a difference, atm i have the hdd and optical drive plugged in there but surely I could just plug ssd and hdd and the I/O wouldnt really be stressed, or am I missing something here?

Just want to check... will buying the ssd definitely help the problem? I don't mind getting fps drops, that will always happen it is just the FPS spikes that I am worried about.

Thanks for your replies

EDIT: screenshot of resource monitor whilst fraps is active.... CPU barely hits 50% load but the disk is going crazy: http://i.imgur.com/8ICp0.png
 
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