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08-20-2007, 12:08 AM | #1 | |
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Recording to a 2nd drive?
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Is a different partition of the same drive enough? Or does it mean a different drive altogether in raid configuration with the primary drive? How does this improve performance? By how much does it improve? I currently have a Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA 16MB 10000RPM. Any answers to this would be much appreciated, as I'm considering to buy a second drive just like it for this. |
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08-20-2007, 02:24 AM | #2 |
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This is meaning a totally different drive, if you read and write from the same hard drive you greatly reduce the performance of the recording. There is no telling how much it can improve it because it is system independent, only you can find that out by trial and error.
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08-20-2007, 08:34 AM | #3 |
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Does external hard drives do the same job ?
Just asking because I play on a laptop. |
08-20-2007, 02:34 PM | #4 |
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08-20-2007, 04:18 PM | #5 | |
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Let me ask this then: Is it normal to experience a slowdown during recording, but when you afterwards look at the actual recording, it's much smoother there? That's how it is for me anyway. |
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08-20-2007, 04:34 PM | #6 |
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I dunno about normal but thats how it is for me, i get solid 60 FPS without Fraps running, while its running it gets cut down to a 30 normal but will sometimes be droping to 15 DPS for a second then back to 30 so its a little chopy but easily still playable.
After you go back into the Fraps folder and watch it in fullscreen its perfectly clear and smooth, although sometimes it kind of slows down a little in a real laggy spot. I turned down some graphics ingame and it seemed to go away completly though. So i pretty much get the same kinda of thing |
08-20-2007, 06:37 PM | #7 | |
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Does fraps report 30 (or whatever you are recording at) fps while recording or lower? |
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