Fraps performance boost

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Hey, just looking for a bit of advice, I've been using fraps for a while now to record some of my game play in TF2 amongst other games and my PC can do this no problem. In the near future I will be looking to do the same for Bad Company 2 and possibly other games yet to be released.

At this moment in time im using...
i7 920 OC'd to 3.8GHz
6GB triple channel ddr3
HD 4870 - currently 750/900MHz
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB

Obviously more than enough for TF2 I get 155fps average when benchmarking with fraps. What steps would you guys recommend I take to minimize the performance drop when recording newer games?

 

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I suppose you could try allocating CPU affinities. Relatively few modern games will use all 4 of your cpu cores effectively, so you could allocate, say, a single core to Fraps and the other three to the game (or 2:2 if it's a badly threaded game ). Try that, see if it helps. Might not though

I read that most games will perform (marginally) better with hyper-threading dissabled, would this still be the case when recording as well as playing?

get another HD to record onto.

Ohhhh, good idea. And with the F3 500GB at only £40 it's very tempting. Would it be worth getting two and using raid just for the videos? Bear in mind i've never used raid.

 

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Right, I will add that to my list then. I haven't earned free delivery yet so i'm ordering all my stuff together to save on packaging. I will try both HT on and off like you suggest. Thanks for the replies guys you have been most helpful.