Fraps lags like hell?

[bogroll123]

One of the big reasons i upgraded my pc is so i would be able to record gameplay videos with fraps without lag.

my setup - gtx 580, i7 960 @ 3.2ghz, 6gb ddr 3 ram, 1.65v, 1tb hdd.

i record games with fraps and its fine for like 10 seconds, then there is like huge lag spikes that take my fps down to 10-15 for 4 seconds then it goes back upto 70 + or whatever. this happens in most games i play expeclailly world of warcraft and gta 4, some help would be appreciated thanks

 

[Fanatic]

1TB HDD your only disk? Ideally you want to record to a spare disk that isn't being used, one without your OS or game on.

 

[Moredhel]

Indeed the bottleneck with fraps is almost always the hard drive. It's recording your screen as uncompressed video don't forget, this means it has to do a LOT of disk I/O while recording, and is why the output files are enormous.

Get a dedicated drive for Fraps recording, make sure it's something decent and not one of those slow greens.