11.01.2013, 15:20
Simple computer rules. Fraps doesnt buffer videos to ram, but instantly writes them to the drive. Now drives may be quite slow in writing, and uncompressed videos with high resolutions get a giant size. A single frame can be 1mb+
So at some point your hdd simply cant handle the input, and fraps turns fps down to the maximum write rate. To improve this, use a non-system drive if you got multiples. System drives got quite a lot i/o actions that slow down the writing. SSDs are perfect for that job as they can handle great amounts of data. Else tune down the resolution to make videos smaller, or look for another recorder that buffers to ram or compresses the videos. However, when just buffering, ram will slowly fill, as it still cant write fast enough to disk. At some point it will be full (8gb ram and full hd might take 10-15 mins of video) Then you need to pause and wait for the ram to be written to disk.
So at some point your hdd simply cant handle the input, and fraps turns fps down to the maximum write rate. To improve this, use a non-system drive if you got multiples. System drives got quite a lot i/o actions that slow down the writing. SSDs are perfect for that job as they can handle great amounts of data. Else tune down the resolution to make videos smaller, or look for another recorder that buffers to ram or compresses the videos. However, when just buffering, ram will slowly fill, as it still cant write fast enough to disk. At some point it will be full (8gb ram and full hd might take 10-15 mins of video) Then you need to pause and wait for the ram to be written to disk.