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Massive frame rate drop when i try to record game play??

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  • recording
  • GPUs
  • dark souls 2
  • Framerate
  • Graphics
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July 26, 2014 11:28:00 AM

Processor - AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black edition (3.4ghz)
Graphics Card - AMD Radeon Sapphire R7 270X 4GB OC edition (8GB total shared)
RAM - 2x 4gb(8gb) PNY DDR3
Power Supply - 850watt EVGA SuperNOVA G2
Motherboard - GIGABYTE MA785GMT-UD2H
Program used to record with - Fraps

I can play games at 60fps maxed out or nearly maxed out and when i try recording i get a massive drop in fps. i was playing dark souls 2 maxed out at a solid 60fps and when i started to record it dropped for 60fps to 28-32 fps also not to long before that i recorded some Diablo 3 and i didnt have any FPS drops
Any idea whats wrong or how to fix it?
thank you :) 

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July 26, 2014 11:34:42 AM

It's possibly a slow HDD
Defrag your HDD
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July 26, 2014 11:36:33 AM

Xproyect said:
It's possibly a slow HDD
Defrag your HDD


alright ill give that a try i use a secondary hard drive to record to
** UPDATE** i defragged it and nothing improved :( 
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July 26, 2014 11:48:41 AM

The CPU is old and having 4GBs of Vram in a mid-tier GPU isnt very useful, the 2gb variant could hav been enough, but I guess its late to suggest that.
It's pretty much due to the processor bottlenecking while performing that multitasking.
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July 26, 2014 11:57:41 AM

6R1M01R3 said:
The CPU is old and having 4GBs of Vram in a mid-tier GPU isnt very useful, the 2gb variant could hav been enough, but I guess its late to suggest that.
It's pretty much due to the processor bottlenecking while performing that multitasking.


but i didnt have this problem on my old 6670 GPU and with it i lost about maybe 3 or 4 fps when recording and like on diablo 3 i didnt get any fps drop using this card and i thought that diablo 3 was alittle heavy on your cpu compared to other games

**update** i switched fraps to record to another hard drive that i store my games to and i didnt lose much at all to my fps, so theres something up with the other hard drive then any idea what it could be?
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July 26, 2014 1:33:51 PM

Xproyect said:
It's possibly a slow HDD
Defrag your HDD


i changed my hard drives and it recorded much better and didnt load barely any fps
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July 26, 2014 1:38:57 PM

what hdd is it? if its a 5400rpm one, taht can cause the slow write speeds.

also, it could be a failing hdd. id back up that hdd if it isnt so right now
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July 26, 2014 1:47:43 PM

jshoop said:
what hdd is it? if its a 5400rpm one, taht can cause the slow write speeds.

also, it could be a failing hdd. id back up that hdd if it isnt so right now


i have 3 HDDs in my PC and an external one
The one i use to record with is a WD Scorpio Blue 500gb 5400rpm HDD but ive never have any trouble with it in the past
other hard drives i have
1TB Seagate 7200rpm
250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200rmp (i use for the OS and small programs)
and a 320GB Seagate Free Agent external HDD
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July 26, 2014 1:49:17 PM

do you think it would be worth a shot to change the sata port its plugged into on the mobo?
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July 26, 2014 7:59:30 PM

sure, it will either stay the same or get better so itd be worth it. a really easy fix if it works too
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July 26, 2014 8:21:42 PM

jshoop said:
sure, it will either stay the same or get better so itd be worth it. a really easy fix if it works too


i did and it was about the same. i tried with my 1TB HDD and it worked perfect so i guess it just needed that little extra speed
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