Fraps FPS dips often while recording.

Vilyx1

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I'll start off with some information to give an idea what im working with.

Small Video of the Issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEqssr0je4A

Crystal Disk Mark results of recording drive:

Seq: Read - 193.0 / Write - 179.9
512k: Read - 38.98 / Write - 78.71
4k: Read - 0.677 / Write - 1.178
4k QD32: Read - 0.711 / Write - 1.137

System Specs:
OS: Windows 8 Professional
CPU: 3.60 gigahertz Intel Core i7-3820
Board: X79A-GD45
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
12GB RAM

Drives:
SSD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167122&Tpk=SSDSC2CT180A3
HDD 1 (Holding Fraps Program: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136144
HDD 2 (Fraps Recordings Drive): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148901


Info:

While i am trying to record with fraps playing world of warcraft, fraps will dip from the usual 60 fps down to 10-20fps for a second. During this time the game goes on per usual, and these dips occur roughly 30 seconds or so.

These are my fraps settings:

Video Capture Settings - 60fps
Full-Size
Record Win7 Sound - Stereo
No External Input
Hide Mouse Cursor in video

I have disabled many of the auto update searching programs, as well starting windows with minimal programs starting from load.

Thank you for your help!

and just a side note, I had fraps working perfectly fine a few days ago.
 
Solution
Looks like a load pause. Every time you have a hiccup something new is appearing on the horizon. Maybe defragment the drive holding your game data.

Make sure the record drive has no swap file using it or anything else that might be reading it.
Disable indexing on all drives.

These should help.
Looks like a load pause. Every time you have a hiccup something new is appearing on the horizon. Maybe defragment the drive holding your game data.

Make sure the record drive has no swap file using it or anything else that might be reading it.
Disable indexing on all drives.

These should help.
 
Solution

Vilyx1

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Tried doing a test with fraps set to 50fps.

Ran smooth for roughly 10 minutes until getting in combat with one other player in the middle of nowhere, then the dips started to occur again.

Until this time, my fps count would jump between the 50 i set it to, and 100 fps.