Guide to recording without loss of frame rate?

[Naz The Eternal]

Originally Posted by xSquirtle

ugh, its useless for me. First recording I do, seems smooth enough at first, but immediately after that my computer begins to get severely laggy without the recorder on. The reaction time in game is severely reduced, making the game impossible to play at my full potential.

Not sure what's going on here, seems like a hard drive issue, getting choked somewhere along the line.

What kind of HDD are you recording to?

[Vancha]

Could it be a memory leak? What games have you tried recording where this happens?

Also I figure I'll ask, what version of Fraps are you running?

[Ailos]

Originally Posted by xSquirtle

I have 4 7200rpm 2tb HD's. It does not matter where I tell it to save the movie clips, I still get bad lag while recording.

If all 4 are in a RAID 0 setup, your RAID controller could be screwing things up for you, especially if it's an older SATA 1.5 or even a 3 GB/s chip (which it sounds like it might be).

Simple fix might be to try updating BIOS and chipset drivers to latest revision. A more cumbersome thing to try would be to split them up into 2 pairs, but then, obviously you're going to need to re-install everything.