I got the trial of FRAPS (i'll buy it if I fix this problem). I started a superflat world, put render distance to tiny, and it's around 100 fps. But then I press the key to record, and it instantly goes down to 2 - 4. I literally have no idea whats wrong. My cpu and ram don't fill up the meter. I have 8GB of RAM. I think its a problem that FRAPS can't save to my disk fast enough, or that my integrated graphics card (i'm using a laptop) can't handle it. What's wrong??
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My best guess would be your disk not being quiet fast enough. Especially if you're recording to the same drive that you have Minecraft/Windows on, since Minecraft is quite a disk hog in my experience. That's just a recipe for disaster with something like FRAPS.
If you'd be willing to go through a few things to try benchmarking your disk, it could help figure this out. First of all, what resolution do you have Minecraft running at, and at what FPS do you have FRAPS set to record?
minecraft is running at /almost/ 1920 x 1080 (minus the taskbar and the bar on top). FRAPS is set to record at 30 fps. I tried recording to a USB, and it froze the game, so I think it's the disk.
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"This sand is what's Left over from that. The rest of my sand became concrete and was transformed into that skyscraper. From the top, even a child can look down on any adult. A castle that blows away with the first gust of wind is worthless. Don't you agree, Nonon?" "But all buildings fall down eventually!" "Then you should build it inside your mind! A skyscraper built within your mind...will never fall down."
Well, if you're not totally against installing the trial version of Dxtory (or you can use CrystalDiskMark, but I haven't used that myself, so you'll have to figure it out in your own, if you don't want to install the trial of Dxtory just for that one feature) to use its disk benchmarking feature, then just do this:
1) Download a trial version of Dxtory.
2) Open up Dxtory, and you should see the main screen like this. (image linked since it's rather large)
3) Click on the tab that has a grey-looking folder on it. You should see this.
4) Click on the smaller button that has a folder with a green plus on it, and choose wherever you have FRAPS set to record to.
5) Once that's done, you should see the path in the part below. Click on the button to the left of it that looks like a little speedometer or something, and you should see this.
6) I like to increase the write size to 4000MB. In fact, the longer the more accurate the result you get will be.
7) Click on run, then close the benchmark window once the progress bar has filled up.
8) You should see something in the write speed column, and that is the speed at which your disk can be written to.
You may want to do the benchmark while running/playing Minecraft, though, to get a more accurate view. The short version is that if you get above maybe 70-80MB/s average while running Minecraft, I would say you can rule out the disk. If not, I really don't see any way of you getting FRAPS working smoothly without installing another drive in your computer to record to.
Using USB will be worse than almost any internal drive you can imagine, unless it's a USB3 drive, and you have it connected to a USB3 port.
"But all buildings fall down eventually!"
"Then you should build it inside your mind! A skyscraper built within your mind...will never fall down."
If you'd be willing to go through a few things to try benchmarking your disk, it could help figure this out. First of all, what resolution do you have Minecraft running at, and at what FPS do you have FRAPS set to record?
"But all buildings fall down eventually!"
"Then you should build it inside your mind! A skyscraper built within your mind...will never fall down."
1) Download a trial version of Dxtory.
2) Open up Dxtory, and you should see the main screen like this. (image linked since it's rather large)
3) Click on the tab that has a grey-looking folder on it. You should see this.
4) Click on the smaller button that has a folder with a green plus on it, and choose wherever you have FRAPS set to record to.
5) Once that's done, you should see the path in the part below. Click on the button to the left of it that looks like a little speedometer or something, and you should see this.
6) I like to increase the write size to 4000MB. In fact, the longer the more accurate the result you get will be.
7) Click on run, then close the benchmark window once the progress bar has filled up.
8) You should see something in the write speed column, and that is the speed at which your disk can be written to.
You may want to do the benchmark while running/playing Minecraft, though, to get a more accurate view. The short version is that if you get above maybe 70-80MB/s average while running Minecraft, I would say you can rule out the disk. If not, I really don't see any way of you getting FRAPS working smoothly without installing another drive in your computer to record to.
Using USB will be worse than almost any internal drive you can imagine, unless it's a USB3 drive, and you have it connected to a USB3 port.