Does Ram Affect Fraps when recording ?

[Anderson_6]

hey well I'm having some weird issues with recording , I actually have built my own pc at the moment specs are going to be down , well when I try to record any game fraps will start recording but after a while I start having some fps issues my fps go down to 1-5 and to be honest im not sure if its the ram , I'm using a ram that came with another old pc (factory) its a 799MHz , I know I have used a lot of money for the other components that my pc have but I didn't know the ram was going to affect me that much while recording, should I change my ram ? or do you guys know the reason why , I do the thing that people say install the game on hdd and record in the ssd but still happens


PC : Specs

Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz 42 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
MSI Z97 PC Mate(MS-7850) (SOCKET 0) 35 °C
Graphics
Acer H236HL (1920x1080@60Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (EVGA) 46 °C
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-08M2NA0 (SATA) 28 °C
223GB KINGSTON SHSS37A240G (SSD) 28 °C
Optical Drives
DiscSoft Virtual SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

 

[James Mason]

Fraps is garbage for recording, don't use it. Speccy also reports ram at half speed, so its actually at 1600.

You can try OBS since it's free:
https://obsproject.com/
And here's how to set it up for local recordings, as well as use multiple audio tracks if you desire.
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-high-quality-recording-and-multiple-audio-tracks.221/
And to set it up for Twitch:
http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1262922-open-broadcaster-software
And to get it setup for Youtube streaming:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853700?hl=en&authuser=1&ref_topic=6136989
And optimizing it for Youtube:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?authuser=1
Reducing FPS lag when recording with OBS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRm2SrfNFJs

 

[photonboy]

Your DDR3 memory wouldn't cause the FPS to drop that low, though you may be losing SOME performance by having a single stick of slower memory and a fast CPU.


(I would recommend a 2133MHz, 2x8GB kit instead or try to get an IDENTICAL second stick then run MEMTEST86 www.memtest86.com ). If not occupying all slots see the motherboard manual for the recommended slots such as #2 and #4.

I'm really not sure why the FPS drops that low, but as per above you can try OBS and set it to the NVidia NVENC hardware encoder. You should alternatively (or also) try NVidia's Shadowplay that's part of "Geforce Experience".

OTHER:
Ram speed is a bit confusing. Without getting into details just think of "1600MHz" memory as 2x800MHz such that two sticks in Dual Channel configuration (see motherboard manual for placement). So one stick provides HALF the bandwidth to the CPU. Too slow and the CPU can be left waiting (but in this case it may be a max 15% or so loss comparing single to dual channel not huge losses).