When recording video games with fraps I get massive FPS drops occasionally. I'll be able to keep 120 fps in TF2, but it will frequently dip to ~30. Am I right in assuming this is just my harddrive not keeping up? I have a 7200rpm (Seagate Barracuda), should this not be enough?
If I simply buy another hard drive and record to that, will it fix my problem? Or is there something else I might be missing.
When recording video games with fraps I get massive FPS drops occasionally. I'll be able to keep 120 fps in TF2, but it will frequently dip to ~30. Am I right in assuming this is just my harddrive not keeping up? I have a 7200rpm (Seagate Barracuda), should this not be enough?
If I simply buy another hard drive and record to that, will it fix my problem? Or is there something else I might be missing.
Fraps will cap your framerate at whatever framerate you are recording at. (30 fps recording will cap you at 30 FPS etc.)
Use DXtory.
Fraps will cap your framerate at whatever framerate you are recording at. (30 fps recording will cap you at 30 FPS etc.)
Use DXtory.
There is a checkbox for a cap, which seems to work. I recorded 30 FPS and can still get 100+ FPS except when it dips. DXtory seemed to have even more problems.
There is a checkbox for a cap, which seems to work. I recorded 30 FPS and can still get 100+ FPS except when it dips. DXtory seemed to have even more problems.
use a different hard drive then the one you run your game off of it's sort of the same principle of streaming from a different machine like TLR did i hope i helped :3
use a different hard drive then the one you run your game off of it's sort of the same principle of streaming from a different machine like TLR did i hope i helped :3
reillyThere is a checkbox for a cap, which seems to work. I recorded 30 FPS and can still get 100+ FPS except when it dips. DXtory seemed to have even more problems.
DXtory uses infinitely less CPU power but it's more complicated to set up. Also use lagarith lossless codec. Keeps the file size reasonable. Fraps is a turd.
[quote=reilly]There is a checkbox for a cap, which seems to work. I recorded 30 FPS and can still get 100+ FPS except when it dips. DXtory seemed to have even more problems.[/quote]
DXtory uses infinitely less CPU power but it's more complicated to set up. Also use lagarith lossless codec. Keeps the file size reasonable. Fraps is a turd.
msi afterburner is great.
only uncompressed and mjpg and rv1 muxed into avi container
WAV Audio ?, i forgot to check.
Your choice on frame cap.
Your choice on video FPS.
Free. FREE. FFFFFFFFRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
msi afterburner is great.
only uncompressed and mjpg and rv1 muxed into avi container
WAV Audio ?, i forgot to check.
Your choice on frame cap.
Your choice on video FPS.
Free. FREE. FFFFFFFFRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Could you just record a demo and then use fraps on it later?
Could you just record a demo and then use fraps on it later?
If I recall correctly, fraps allocates recording space on your disk in 4GB chunks, and doesn't seem to have much in the way of dealing with this in the background as you record. That is to say, when you start recording, it lags a bit as it demands additional resources to claim that disk space, then records happily up until the point where it nears the end of that 4GB, at which point it goes "OH SHIT NEED MORE ROOM" and your FPS dies as it frantically tries to allocate the next chunk.
Better-performing hard drives mitigate this problem, but using a different program as recommended by others is probably a much better solution.
If I recall correctly, fraps allocates recording space on your disk in 4GB chunks, and doesn't seem to have much in the way of dealing with this in the background as you record. That is to say, when you start recording, it lags a bit as it demands additional resources to claim that disk space, then records happily up until the point where it nears the end of that 4GB, at which point it goes "OH SHIT NEED MORE ROOM" and your FPS dies as it frantically tries to allocate the next chunk.
Better-performing hard drives mitigate this problem, but using a different program as recommended by others is probably a much better solution.