Fraps Seriously Kills my FPS

[WiredKill]

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.

 

[robthatguyx]

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

 

[69ingChipmunkzz]

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

 

[cbrunnem]

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

 

[The Stealthinator]

Ok, if the OP needed more help, he would've posted back. Necroposting is against the rules and it's annoying.

 

[TinyTitan]

You just helped bump the forum.. And so did I...

 

[cbrunnem]

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.

 

[Drumblanket]

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.

 

[Karl731]

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.

 

[69ingChipmunkzz]

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

 

[TheArmedBlackSheepyProject]

Try changing the recording to 30FPS. It's not a huge difference