Fraps Seriously Kills my FPS

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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.
 
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Yep FRAPS will do that. It constantly writes to the harddrive as well as compressing the video.

Either use a built in recorder for the game then use FRAPS to record that footage or drop the settings down.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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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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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I had a lot of problems with fraps unless you have a godly PC good luck recording 60 fps at full size I suggest getting Dxtory setting it to record at 1280x720 at 30fps and getting a good codec for it(I recommend getting x264).
 
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OP might not be around, but other people who search the forums and net for solutions are.... so it is still useful to provide more information I think.
 
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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 😗
 
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pendrives are way to slow
 
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