Fraps

cHk4 · 17 Jul 2009 at 09:22

Hello all, think this belongs here

Ok I built my new rig (spec in sig) and am running Windows 7 beta. I play a few games (Aion, Prototype and Crysis) and I run them all on max. I like recording videos in fraps to edit and make like a mini montage however when I turn on fraps it really kills my system... Aion is the main one, I go from running at 200 frames per second down to 20-30 and I can really tell the performance decrease.

What can I do to stop this? Do I need to lower the settings of my games so fraps does not kill my FPS? Any advice and help welcomed

Thanks

uv · 17 Jul 2009 at 09:35

Fraps isn't going to be affected by lowering graphics options. It's main bottleneck is your Storage IO, and it's secondary bottleneck is your CPU. Your CPU should be powerful enough, so I'd say that Fraps is struggling to write to your HDD at the throughput required for the resolution you're using. Try lowering the resolution that Fraps records at.

cHk4 · 17 Jul 2009 at 09:37

uv said:
Fraps isn't going to be affected by lowering graphics options. It's main bottleneck is your Storage IO, and it's secondary bottleneck is your CPU. Your CPU should be powerful enough, so I'd say that Fraps is struggling to write to your HDD at the throughput required for the resolution you're using. Try lowering the resolution that Fraps records at.

Thanks mate, I will give that a try

mrk · 17 Jul 2009 at 09:48

Yup, on mine I game at 1920 and set Fraps to record at 60fps half that resolution and in most games that works out perfectly (TF2, L4D etc) whilst in other games like gTA4 where the game gets a sustained FPS lower than 60 then Fraps will just record at whatever fps thegame is playing at.

cHk4 · 17 Jul 2009 at 11:04

mrk said:
Yup, on mine I game at 1920 and set Fraps to record at 60fps half that resolution and in most games that works out perfectly (TF2, L4D etc) whilst in other games like gTA4 where the game gets a sustained FPS lower than 60 then Fraps will just record at whatever fps thegame is playing at.

So you tick the half screen option instead of full screen?

mrk · 17 Jul 2009 at 11:05

Yes, no point recording at full screen resolution because you'd have to recode it to a smaller res anyway and the filesize would be huge, It tales no time to get 50GB of Fraps recordings at half res anyway!

cHk4 · 17 Jul 2009 at 11:13

mrk said:
Yes, no point recording at full screen resolution because you'd have to recode it to a smaller res anyway and the filesize would be huge, It tales no time to get 50GB of Fraps recordings at half res anyway!

Aaaaa - always wondered what that did lol. Ok mate thanks a lot will give it a shot tonight