Weird Problem...

[AaronMa]

Please excuse me if this is posted in the wrong section..

Hey all. Been a dedicated follower of the linus channel and all of his stuff and had a forum account for a while now.

I have a problem when tying to record video for a montage I am putting together.. I use fraps to record just because it is the easiest to use and I have it installed already. What happens is over time my frames start to drop and I cannot record because of the graphics lag that is caused. I am running at a normal 122 fps without recording and I lock my framerate to 60 when recording, but when it dips below, it starts to lag.

Build info:

Gigabyte z77x ud3h motherboard

Intel i5 3570k (stock speed, no need to OC just yet.)

PNY GTX 670 (stock speed as well.)

8gigs of G.SKILL RipJaws @ 1600 MHz

WD Blue 500GB (not sure it matters, but I will put it anyways)

Monitor refresh rate is 60 Hertz

Any help is appreciated.

[RuecanOnRails]

It may be due to fraps requiring a large amount of cpu and gpu usage to encode and create the video files.

I don't have much experience with fraps. I used it long enough to realize how poor it truly is with resources. I've used Dxtory for a very long time now and find it works much smoother and gives endless customization to your recordings.

Give http://dxtory.com/v2-home-en.html a try and see if you continue to get lag spikes while recording. Beware though, Dxtory can use a lot of hdd space based on the settings you choose. It will also run smoother if you have multiple hdd's installed as it's capable of distributing across multiple drives.

[SubTract]

what resolution are you recording at and are you trying to write to that HDD?

HDD is normally the biggest problem with software recording. I wouldn't expect you to record 1080p on a HDD at 60fps.

[mvitkun]

as said above to record smoothly you either need a separate fast HDD for recording,or an SSD,because recording 1080p needs high write speeds.