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Old 06-06-2009, 05:53 AM   #11
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So then what do you suppose I do? Experiment with and without a cpu? If so many people want a real fraps performance guide, maybe it's time someone made one?
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Old 06-06-2009, 06:51 AM   #12
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Well yea, in response to all three questions.
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Old 06-06-2009, 06:52 AM   #13
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Well yea, in response to all three questions.
lol did you even read my three questions. The 1st question isn't even a yes/no question.
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Old 06-07-2009, 01:03 AM   #14
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lol did you even read my three questions. The 1st question isn't even a yes/no question.
I took a lazy approach much like your questions. If you feel like your lacking the information provide a guide, if you think you have a bottleneck go through the process of testing your components one by one. Were these questions needing answers? Come on
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Old 06-21-2009, 10:11 AM   #15
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If you don't want to touch the image quality, you can play around with harddrive performance tweaks (such as altering the page file, running a defrag), as mentioned earlier test to record onto different drives, and test setting different cpu affinitys on fraps and/or WoW.

Personally though when I'm recording, the things I care about the most is the framerate and resolution, so I tweak down my graphic settings as much as it goes and this includes forcing a v1.1 shader version and a bunch of graphic card(driver) tweaks like that which you can find by searching for guides on tweaking gfx settings for WoW.

Honestly, your computer specs arent really THAT good, so you shouldnt really expect more than that framerate while recording-

Are any of your harddrives in raid0? Something that might help is having a fast harddrive like a velociraptor or having harddrives in raid0 (or velociraptors in raid0 if you're a mad man)- although I havent done any benchmarks for this specifically so don't take my word for it (I just have a raptor drive and pleased with the results compared to my friends, but that includes a huge amount of factors so I wouldnt rely on it much).
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Old 06-21-2009, 08:21 PM   #16
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I already have my pagefile disabled. I run OandO defrag like everyday. I have 6 harddrives, and yes I already record onto a blank 750GB hdd which has nothing on it except my fraps videos. I tested using different cpu affinities, but I found out that as long as fraps has an affinity that isn't Core0, the difference in performance will be the same. I only tested on my dual core, so I dunno how it is with quads.

Tweaking my graphics settings does nothing except when changing the resolution. I doubt a 6 year old game stresses my 2 year old 8800GT anyways.

How can my hard drive be the bottleneck if recording fraps doesn't even come close to my max hdd write speed?

I actually upgraded my E6400 to a E5200 which should come in tomorrow. Then I'll overclock it to hell (maybe 4ghz?) and then test again.
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Old 06-21-2009, 09:03 PM   #17
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Tweaking my graphics settings does nothing except when changing the resolution. I doubt a 6 year old game stresses my 2 year old 8800GT anyways.
I don't think you'll find any 6 year old game that can stress your 8800GT, don't think anyone's said anything about that...

World of Warcraft however, will. Graphic settings does a LOT for my 8800GTX atleast, it's easily a 10-20fps during recording difference tweaked vs high quality settings.

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How can my hard drive be the bottleneck if recording fraps doesn't even come close to my max hdd write speed?
I'm not really sure, maybe it's easier to reach certain speeds on certain harddrives that are faster than others, no matter what % of the max that is, or maybe it has something to do with the performance of everything ELSE using the harddrive, when it's getting used a lot by fraps, and that might ease up with a faster harddrive? Again, not really sure, but, I mean... this is really what the main weight is for recording with fraps, isnt it?
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