Fraps and game recording

When i try to record in games the game is pretty much unplayble. If i set the fps at 30 in fraps the game caps at 30 as well which i really cant play like that. The game im trying atm is CoD4 which as you can understand low fps = bad aiming.

At the moment my settings while recording are, game is set at 1680x1050 and fraps is set to half size @ 50 or 60 fps with no AA (since i as said if i choose 30 i cant really aim properly) and tried "saving" the file on another hdd as well with no success. The problem is basically that even if i set it at 50 fps, cod4 is usually around 30-50 but the game just stutters all the time so its impossible to aim, not sure if its a hdd bottleneck issue (both of them are 7200rpm).

Since i find a lot of game videos in youtube and other services of people that recorded games using fraps on high resolutions im trying to see if im missing something.

Thanks in advance

 

They have a capable system/graphics card.

 

So your saying that T9600 and 3870 on crossfire is not enough ?

 

Lol, didn't see your specs. Sorry.

 

No worries I know its possible to record using the /record command on Cod and then just playback the replay and record it with fraps, but since ive got the same problem with all the games which have no /record capabilities like world of warcraft, im trying to see if theres a solutions to this

 

I have the same problem too. When I try to record any videos, my frames drop with 10-5. I have also T9600 but with 9800M GTX

 

Nope not enough

Fraps is not killing your video cards, thats the strong part of your system.

Its killing your cpu & hard drive, and those parts are weak.

Get a high clocked quad core and record the video to a 2nd hard drive and you will be in business.

My system can go quite low while recording sometimes with a 3.6ghz quad and a 2nd hdd on my desktop, I just use the 30fps setting even though it limits to 30fps thats the optimal speed for the video makes editing and working with it easier/better and takes less space (and its already huge) if you have a good computer it will stay at or near 30fps and thats a playable frame rate.

 

Yea read that a lot of people use the 30 fps option but seriously i dont get how they manage that I feel like the game is too "laggy" at 30 fps.

Waiting for my SSD so i will find out if its the HDD or not. If not i guess it must be a CPU bottleneck

 

I think that expect from the HDD you should change the CPU to but lets first see what will happen with the SSD.

 

Is there a program that can log the maximum CPU usage ? Something similar to HWMonitor but basically just to check if the cpu actually goes to 100% usage when recording ? Since if i minimize the game the usage is not going to be the same.