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[Chavette]

Fraps.
I had an issue of my fps being 9O w/o vsync(i keep it on) and when I hit record dropping to some stupidly low amount of 3O and the game getting choppy, like 15fps choppy. It happened on both 6O and 3O fps recording settings. The "lock framerate while recording" button doesnt have affect. If I made a custom fps setting of 27, the game would manage to get 54 (double) but would drop to 27 with alot going on, so theres some bottleneck somewhere, but its probably the exceptionally poor coding of fraps.

I had an anicent 25Ogb hdd so I figured it simply cant keep up. Now I got an ssd that can write around 3OOmb and its still the same damn problem. I'm so mad.

9O to 3O fps when the drive uses 3% cpu time to write at full speed? Are you kidding me?

Edited by Chavette, 12 June 2013 - 08:37 AM.

[CHWarpath]

Chavette, on 11 June 2013 - 02:58 PM, said:

Fraps.
I had an issue of my fps being 9O w/o vsync(i keep it on) and when I hit record dropping to some stupidly low amount of 3O and the game getting choppy, like 15fps choppy. It happened on both 6O and 3O fps recording settings. The "lock framerate while recording" button doesnt have affect. If I made a custom fps setting of 27, the game would manage to get 54 (double) but would drop to 27 with alot going on, so theres some bottleneck somewhere, but its probably the exceptionally poor coding of fraps.

I had an anicent 25Ogb hdd so I figured it simply cant keep up. Now I got an ssd that can write around 3OOmb and its still the same damn problem. I'm so mad.

9O to 3O fps when the drive uses 3% cpu time to write at full speed? Are you kidding me?

It has nothing to do with the drive and everything to do with the GPU/CPU you are using. Fraps is not good for recording games, if you want to record games and not suffer FPS hits, you go with a tuner card and run a cable from your GPU into it and record.

You can also try using Twitch TV

Edited by CHWarpath, 12 June 2013 - 01:02 AM.

[kesuga7]

Does 29.7 fps actually do anything or is it just a different format?

but yea when i record with fraps ON CERTAIN maps it seems to be much slower.

such as caustic or alpine or forest colony snow but even then it feels random but i notice it on those maps the most

also when i fraps i put everything on low except 1920x1080 resolution

[Chavette]

29.7 is just a setting to make your files directly compatible with the classic 29.7fps video format.

I've recieved a tip to try with msi afterburner, so I will.

[Chavette]

The msi afterburner had useful tool tips, and suggested if I'm getting choppy rates, my PCIE bus is choking it.

I went o_O cuz I have pcie bus x16 mobo. Then I remembered I put my card in the bottom slot a month ago as per a suggestion I had to eliminate my mic noise.

I looked up my mobo page and what do I see:

1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (blue)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode, black)
2 x PCIe 2.0 x1 *¹
3 x PCI

The black one is only x16 in form, not in function.