fraps problems

[wudood]

i wanted to capture some video so i downloaded fraps 2.0. the problem is.. it totally locks up my computer when i start capturing. i've tried reducing the quality to minimum quality (max performance) and it does the same thing. i've got an athlon 2500+, 512 ram, nf7-s 2.0, and 9500pro, running win2k. anyone use fraps? i'm wondering if there's some sort of "hidden" setting i have to adjust.. like fast writes or disk caching or something like that. any help would be much appreciated!

 

[WillyF1uhm1]

Do you have it all on the same harddisk?

I've used fraps 1.9 on my computer (asus a7vx8, athlon 2000+, 1 GB Ram, radeon 9700 pro, 2x maxtor 60 GB hdd) and encountered problems while capturing in a game.
The game became totally unplayable.
This was probably caused by the game, fraps, and the videofile it created, all being on the same harddisk, because when I installed fraps on the other harddisk, where it created the videofile, it ran quite smoothly.
So it's quite possible my harddisk was too slow too handle it all at once.