Amd processor causes fraps slowdown?

[GameBruhColor]

My system build is as followed...
Amd fx 8320 3.5 ghz
western digital caviar black 1tb hdd
western digital 80gb hdd (used for saving gameplay footage)
8 gb of kingston hyper x fury
XFX radeon r9 280x double d

My issue is this... I record gameplay and upload it to youtube. I often, but not all the time have to lower settings to get playable fps on more demanding games. I use fraps to get my gameplay I had heard that it murdered cpu's so I got another drive to save my recordings to and it helped greatly on some games. I recently got the witcher 3 and I cant record without the frames dropping severly so is there another less cpu punishing program that I could use... or do I need another hdd?

The 80gb hdd was salvaged from an old desktop

 

[drtweak]

AMD's are good for multithreading programs like video editing, 3D animation etc. Gaming is more about single threaded performance which AMD sucks at. So while FRAPS may work good on the AMD part due to multithreading (asssuming this though. I have never used FRAPS. I have used xsplit to stream to Twitch but you can also save to hard drive as well) but if it is using up all the CPU then the game will be using cores that are already high usage and may cause the game to slow down.

I would check the CPU usage when just playing the same. Then check the CPU usage when just using fraps. just record your desktop or something. See what they are like. If they are both high on their own then that would explain the frame drop.

 

[Outlander_04]

Gaming is not "about single threading performance" . Well it might be if the game engine is years old .
But mostly with modern games you see them using all cores and loading them equally .
Xbox and Playstation have 8 core AMD processors , not strong single cores .


The FX 8320.... ..is it at stock speed?
Try using the cpu power options in catalyst/ AMD feature manager to overclock it even a little . Did that improve things for recording? If it didnt then the problem is NOT the processor