FRAPS - Recording makes my game lag spike?

[AuroraHD]

Okay, so I've upgraded my CPU and motherboard. Before, with my old rig, I never lag spiked while recording, (maybe sometimes, but that was just my frames going down because my rig was not too good). But now, when I record some Minecraft, the frames would jump from 120 to 90 then makes its way back up when loading new chunks. It's annoying since you can see the freezing.

When not recording, sometimes goes from 900 to 850 or so, but it doesn't show any freezing whatso ever. Is this a HDD problem? I've never had this problem before.

Old specs:
APU: A8 3850
HDD: Samsung 204UI 2TB

New specs:
GPU: GTX 760
CPU: i5 4670
HDD: Samsung 204UI 2TB

I currently have 1.2TB free of space so I don't know whats going on.

 

[nukemaster]

Well I highly doubt you have a hard drive bottleneck with that small of a file. I would lean more towards a cpu bottleneck with it while gaming or something else.

With videos that small, you can test VERY fast storage with a 1-2 gigabyte ramdrive.

Normally when you install a new board, you end up having to reinstall the OS. You may well have a software issue preventing you from getting the performance you should.

Some users who are really into game recording use external capture boxes with hardware encoding taking the system out of the equation.

 

[AuroraHD]

Well I highly doubt you have a hard drive bottleneck with that small of a file. I would lean more towards a cpu bottleneck with it while gaming or something else.

With videos that small, you can test VERY fast storage with a 1-2 gigabyte ramdrive.

Normally when you install a new board, you end up having to reinstall the OS. You may well have a software issue preventing you from getting the performance you should.

Some users who are really into game recording use external capture boxes with hardware encoding taking the system out of the equation.

My CPU is a i5 4670. I have Windows 7 SP1. Is that a problem?

 

[nukemaster]

It should not be, but your hard drive is not likely to have any issues with bandi or shadowplay either. Fraps I could see issues with fragmentation due to the higher data rates.

Again to rule out storage you can always try a ram drive.

 

[AuroraHD]

It should not be, but your hard drive is not likely to have any issues with bandi or shadowplay either. Fraps I could see issues with fragmentation due to the higher data rates.

Again to rule out storage you can always try a ram drive.

Will a USB flash drive work better

 

[AuroraHD]

Actually, what is the ACTUAL reason why it's lag spiking

 

[nukemaster]

I can not be sure in your case. These spikes could be an issue with frame rate, a game loading textures slowing down the drive just enough, a driver issue or many other things.

Your system should work fine, but many users have lag issues on minecraft because even with its simple graphics, it has lots of polygons because each block is an individual item.

I can not say yes or no to a flash drive because if it is not a storage system issue, then you will buy a flash drive for no gains.

Before anything you should at least try a ramdisk. They have a lite version that should at least let you test and ensure you do or do not have a storage bottleneck. If you do, but your videos are small, you may be able to capture to this and then copy to your drive after.
http/memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk

 

[AuroraHD]

I can not be sure in your case. These spikes could be an issue with frame rate, a game loading textures slowing down the drive just enough, a driver issue or many other things.

Your system should work fine, but many users have lag issues on minecraft because even with its simple graphics, it has lots of polygons because each block is an individual item.

I can not say yes or no to a flash drive because if it is not a storage system issue, then you will buy a flash drive for no gains.

Before anything you should at least try a ramdisk. They have a lite version that should at least let you test and ensure you do or do not have a storage bottleneck. If you do, but your videos are small, you may be able to capture to this and then copy to your drive after.
http/memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk

Alright I'll try ramdisk this afternoon! I also don't believe it's a HDD problem, i have 800 GB left and it's 0% fragmented, if that's even good

 

[nukemaster]

the only issue I have ever seen with hard drives in general is that if they are being used for other things the drive heads have to move between the locations, but most times it is fast enough to not be an issue. This is what makes dedicated drives a good option.

It is more this access time than actual write speed that matters for real time recording. I even have a dedicated drive for my media center PVR just to ensure the drive is never too busy. It has not issues recording and watching something else, but the data rates are not high at all(SD and HD recordings from cable do not need bit rates even remotely close to what is used for most peoples game capture.).

I have always used the 2 or more drive(drive for the game and windows and a drive for recording) system and this may well have helped. It is important to know that I do not do that much game recording(I will capture if something funny happens or if I want to test the new version of ShadowPlay).

 

[AuroraHD]

the only issue I have ever seen with hard drives in general is that if they are being used for other things the drive heads have to move between the locations, but most times it is fast enough to not be an issue. This is what makes dedicated drives a good option.

It is more this access time than actual write speed that matters for real time recording. I even have a dedicated drive for my media center PVR just to ensure the drive is never too busy. It has not issues recording and watching something else, but the data rates are not high at all(SD and HD recordings from cable do not need bit rates even remotely close to what is used for most peoples game capture.).

I have always used the 2 or more drive(drive for the game and windows and a drive for recording) system and this may well have helped. It is important to know that I do not do that much game recording(I will capture if something funny happens or if I want to test the new version of ShadowPlay).

Does it matter on what version of Fraps I use? I used to have an older version, but now using the latest

 

[AuroraHD]

Yep, it sort of fixed it. Downgraded to V. 3.4.2. Although it still lags from 120 to like 114, but its waaaaay better.

 

[AuroraHD]

Honestly, whenever I load new chunks, it starts to lag spike. Do you know why?

 

[AuroraHD]

Actually it still hasn't been fixed :l it just gives me higher fps, but lag spikes still

 

[nukemaster]

In general you should use the latest version from the member area.

Did you manage to see what the ram drive does?

120 to 114 would just sound like loading more blocks. I could see that even when not recording.