Fraps Seriously Kills my FPS
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WiredKill
February 15, 2012 9:56:47 PM
Hey guys, I have had this problem for a while and decided to upgrade my pc and try and fix it (I was already going to upgrade it). Pretty much, no matter what game I play, fraps always takes my framerate down by about 30 fps. I have made sure that fraps is supposed to lock at 60 frames, but it drops all the way down to around 25-50. I have done multiple things to try and fix this, I pretty much tried everything fraps has to offer, so im pretty much stuck here now and was hoping you guys could help.
Here are my PC specs, it is obviously a great computer.
HD Radeon 6850 Gigabyte in Crossfire.
16 Gigs of ram. Pretty much all unused (just re-installed windows)
Amd Phenom x6 II 1075 T (6 Cpu's) 3.0 GHZ
1200 Watt power supply
Fans. :3
I think that's all I need to list, thanks.
Here are my PC specs, it is obviously a great computer.
HD Radeon 6850 Gigabyte in Crossfire.
16 Gigs of ram. Pretty much all unused (just re-installed windows)
Amd Phenom x6 II 1075 T (6 Cpu's) 3.0 GHZ
1200 Watt power supply
Fans. :3
I think that's all I need to list, thanks.
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FlintIronStagg
February 16, 2012 1:01:37 AM
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WiredKill
February 17, 2012 11:37:18 AM
joedastudd
February 17, 2012 11:48:21 AM
AntiZig
February 17, 2012 1:12:50 PM
drops all the way down to 25-50, umm, that's kind of a huge range that it drops down to, big difference between 50 and 25... I think you meant 30 instead of 50?
anyways, you didn't mention anything about your hard drives. if you're running everything with 1 single HDD, I'd recommend you get a second one just for fraps raw storage. Trust me if you're recording at high res, it puts major strain on HDD, if you got programs running from the same drive it's not a pretty story.
Also, your x6 (lol 6 cpu's XD ) is it overclocked? if not, you might want to look into that. Last time I checked fraps runs on 1 core, so the higher clock you can get the better it will run.
anyways, you didn't mention anything about your hard drives. if you're running everything with 1 single HDD, I'd recommend you get a second one just for fraps raw storage. Trust me if you're recording at high res, it puts major strain on HDD, if you got programs running from the same drive it's not a pretty story.
Also, your x6 (lol 6 cpu's XD ) is it overclocked? if not, you might want to look into that. Last time I checked fraps runs on 1 core, so the higher clock you can get the better it will run.
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Thaizasaskand
February 19, 2012 8:12:27 PM
What hard-drive do you have?
I don't use Fraps, but can you set it to record to an external drive, memory stick e.t.c.? It will require some power to transcode, but your CPU is more than sufficient. Fraps does, however, transfer lots of information to the Hard-drive, which may slow your game down, because the Hard-disk can only read and write so much data per second and Fraps will nearly (or entirely) saturate that limit.
I don't use Fraps, but can you set it to record to an external drive, memory stick e.t.c.? It will require some power to transcode, but your CPU is more than sufficient. Fraps does, however, transfer lots of information to the Hard-drive, which may slow your game down, because the Hard-disk can only read and write so much data per second and Fraps will nearly (or entirely) saturate that limit.
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cbrunnem
February 19, 2012 11:15:11 PM
robthatguyx
February 20, 2012 6:09:27 PM
trogdor796
February 22, 2012 5:27:26 AM
I've heard if you record to a different HDD than the one the game/OS is on, it won't be nearly as bad. I'm sure due to it using the CPU there may be some performance decrease, but this way it wont be trying to write to the same HDD the game is running off of.
I haven't tried this out, so let me know if you do. I'm curios as to what the answer is.
I haven't tried this out, so let me know if you do. I'm curios as to what the answer is.
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FlintIronStagg
February 22, 2012 5:29:12 AM
WiredKill
February 29, 2012 12:59:28 PM
Sorry guys I didn't have my PC for a while. I have 2 harddrives with 1TB in each. 1.5 TB is available for me to use. I run at a high resolution (i always forget the exact resolution, but it's the best for a 200 dollar monitor). Yes I run at 6 cores, not 6 cpu's that was my fault for putting that lol. I also used bandicam, works better so it might just be a fact that fraps kind of sucks. Not to mention I am having serious GPU problems, which might be causing it.
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iGGY-101
December 9, 2012 12:54:28 AM
Fraps does not suck, it just needs the right setup. In this video they even show you the difference a Hard Drive makes when recording gameplay. It is amazing.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEGDgzlc7mA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEGDgzlc7mA
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robthatguyx
December 9, 2012 3:24:21 AM
coming back to this 8 months later, you should try dxtory or msiafterburner. afterburner is free but isnt strait quality but i only get about 5 fps drops in games even bf3 all tho sometimes a recording is quite choppy,(but hey its free) and from what i hear dxtory is one of the better recording software because there is also very low fps drop
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solidsteel
December 9, 2012 5:31:03 AM
FlintIronStagg
December 9, 2012 6:01:23 PM
Mooth
December 9, 2012 9:58:52 PM
iGGY-101
December 10, 2012 2:27:49 AM
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robthatguyx
December 10, 2012 1:15:14 PM
tomniko
December 13, 2012 3:09:24 PM
nix327
December 13, 2012 4:59:13 PM
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cbrunnem
December 13, 2012 7:34:58 PM
nix327 said:
forgive my ignorance if i am wrong but if the HDD is bringing down performance when running fraps and you have only a single HDD can you not use a pendrive and record the videos to it..you can transfer it later to your HDD.edit: i just saw that someone else already mentioned this
pendrives are way to slow
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The Stealthinator
December 13, 2012 8:24:25 PM
robthatguyx
December 13, 2012 8:57:59 PM
The Stealthinator
December 13, 2012 9:54:33 PM
robthatguyx
December 13, 2012 10:01:51 PM
for general gaming an i5 and an hdd will do but if your a hardgamer and want to record you wanna use an i7 with a dedicated ssd just for video storage ,the ssd will write it faster and the hyperthreading on the i7 will decimate the compression if you choose to do so. also a high end video card would help alot
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69ingChipmunkzz
August 9, 2013 4:00:45 AM
cbrunnem
August 9, 2013 4:46:56 AM
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The Stealthinator
August 9, 2013 9:16:07 PM
TinyTitan
August 9, 2013 9:25:03 PM
cbrunnem
August 10, 2013 9:22:22 AM
The Stealthinator said:
Ok, if the OP needed more help, he would've posted back. Necroposting is against the rules and it's annoying.mods should lock threads that are dead. necroposting is not annoying. maybe to you(gods opinion i guess) but to many it can bring hindsight opinions which can be great.
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Drumblanket
March 9, 2014 5:08:14 PM
cbrunnem said:
69ingChipmunkzz said:
WiredKill said:
I took off vsync, didn't help. I also made sure EVERY driver was updated and that all the old ones were deleted. DXtory is wwwaaaaayyyyyy better.
With FRAPs i found i lost 20/30 fps. with DXtory and the right codec, i loose 3 or 4 frames
this is the truth talking
Dxtory might be awesome and everything but whenever i try to buy it it takes me to paypal saying the price is 588.80 US dollars...
It might be good but its not that good.
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Karl731
May 27, 2014 12:31:34 AM
OP mentioned that Bandicam worked much better. By default it compresses the video much more than Fraps does, so it writes less data to the drive. Clearly his main problem was his disk write speed, which, as many others have said, can be solved by adding an additional drive. Bandicam is also my own personal choice - much more control over the quality and compression, and therefore performance can be tweaked to suit your system.
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69ingChipmunkzz
August 29, 2014 9:21:18 AM
Drumblanket said:
cbrunnem said:
69ingChipmunkzz said:
WiredKill said:
I took off vsync, didn't help. I also made sure EVERY driver was updated and that all the old ones were deleted. DXtory is wwwaaaaayyyyyy better.
With FRAPs i found i lost 20/30 fps. with DXtory and the right codec, i loose 3 or 4 frames
this is the truth talking
Dxtory might be awesome and everything but whenever i try to buy it it takes me to paypal saying the price is 588.80 US dollars...
It might be good but its not that good.
Who said anything about buying it
It is expesive and now AMD and Nvidia have DVR software which is a lot better than any software I've seen
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