Fraps

[the21robot]

Hi guys, I was wondering how many fps drop does fraps make

[MeltyMoon]

There is no set drop when recording with fraps. The lag comes from your HDD trying to record your game with a set amount of fps. The HDD has to write huge uncompressed files, this is why you lag. For example, a 1 minute file @ 60 FPS could easily be over 1 Gigabyte large. If you record to something like a raptor drive (or an SSD but i don't think that would be a good idea) there would be much less lag/ the lag would be nonexistent.

[Theo]

Too many, use Dxtory, no performance hit

[mgsstar]

Fraps sometimes drops my league game to 30fps even though I recorded at 30 and turned the fps cap off. Spikes from 30 to 60 which is sometimes annoying.

[Cacao]

Expect anywhere from a 20-50% performance hit. It really depends on your hardware and the game though.

[Anubikai]

There is no set drop when recording with fraps. The lag comes from your HDD trying to record your game with a set amount of fps. The HDD has to write huge uncompressed files, this is why you lag. For example, a 1 minute file @ 60 FPS could easily be over 1 Gigabyte large. If you record to something like a raptor drive (or an SSD but i don't think that would be a good idea) there would be much less lag/ the lag would be nonexistent.

 

errr....its not really a problem with modern fairly unused harddrives....obviously if your harddrive is slow then your gonna get huge fps decrease. But i dont see any performance decrease and if we are talking with number then i only gte 2-3fps lower on average.....which is nothing when my games usually run around the 80+fps mark maxed out....some more some less......but they are always still playable. It comes down to whether your pc is strong enough....i could have the fastest ssd in the world and use a pentium 4......my processor is a bottleneck....the same goes for the opposite situation. You need ot have a balanced system. Yes some other softwraes offer better 'performance' but as long as you have a good pc i dont see any problem with fraps.

 

-Anubikai

[MeltyMoon]

errr....its not really a problem with modern fairly unused harddrives....obviously if your harddrive is slow then your gonna get huge fps decrease. But i dont see any performance decrease and if we are talking with number then i only gte 2-3fps lower on average.....which is nothing when my games usually run around the 80+fps mark maxed out....some more some less......but they are always still playable. It comes down to whether your pc is strong enough....i could have the fastest ssd in the world and use a pentium 4......my processor is a bottleneck....the same goes for the opposite situation. You need ot have a balanced system. Yes some other softwraes offer better 'performance' but as long as you have a good pc i dont see any problem with fraps.

 

-Anubikai

I Personally use fraps, and currently for me yea my HDD is my bottleneck. I'm just waiting for it to die so I have an excuse to buy a new storage solution. But normally the HDD is the bottleneck when it comes to recording with fraps. If i remember right, Linus did a video on recording with it. He used an SSD and showed how much better the performance was. 

[SeljD]

The best solution is that you record on different HDD than the game and OS is located