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Optimizing FRAPs

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PrISM506

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I've started recording gameplay footage with FRAPs (full version), but my framerate takes a serious hit. Right now, I've got one HD in my system but I bought another one that should arrive in a few days. Would recording to the second HD help out a lot? Is there anything else I can try to improve this?
 
Decreasing the FRAPS quality settings helps a lot. Generally speaking capturing footage on a PC takes a lot of horsepower, playing a game and doing it even more so. The best method, if you're really into this is to parallel pass your video signal, via S-video or RGB, to an external recording deck, like VCR or DVR. Then capture it back to the PC and edit it.
 
Yes a separate HD makes a big difference, make sure it?s not on the same channel as your old HD either. For optimal recording I would use a raptor drive. Do not run anything else off the capture drive, the game and OS should be on a drive different than your capture drive.

I capture to a raptor at 1600x1200 30 FPS. It will fill up a drive really fast so after each capture post-process your footage to get it compressed. Make sure you have the latest version of Fraps that uses Multi-core processors.

Have fun.

 
have fraps record at 30 FPS in 1/2 the game resolution

its what worked for me and the finial output is still really nice
 
The performance hit is almost soley on the CPU as you're encoding video in real-time.

Buy a faster processor and/or reduce the resolution/framerate FRAPs records at.
 
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