Paragon and Fraps

[Lhynz]

Well, hi all, first of everything I would like to say grats for those world first 13/13 and kneel before the quality of your videos.
I've been trying now for nearly a year to fraps something decent, I've reached good results, but well, not as good as yours.
Right to the question... My problem is FPS lag during some encounters, for example, Twilight Council, Halfus Heroic and at Valiona sometimes... I really can not understand this spikes under 25 fps with my computer, I can assume that you probably have a better computer than mine, but it can not be much better...
I'm actually playing on a i7 980x ; SLI EVGA gtx480 ; 12GB Ram 1600mhz and SSD for WoW and videos.
Fraps is set at 30fps ; Full size and I play at 1680 x 1050 when I'm recording, did some arranges on the video quality, lowering view distance to medium, ansiotropy filter and texture filter to the minimun and still reach under those 25 Fps... Btw I also use a lightweigh UI, the well know TukUI, the only addons plus that UI that I use is Bigwigs, Rogue Power Bars, Announce, Recount, Omen and Grid
Some idea ?
Thanks in advance.
PS: Excuse my english it can not be the best, but I tried to make this understandable

[DiamondTear]

You could try setting your fps in fraps higher or recording to a different drive.

[Lhynz]

Seems to work much better, tyvm :) Eventho the most problematic areas were in Bastion of the Twilight, and as I could read today there was a performance issue for everyone, frapsing or not.

[Vinlann]

When you say record to a different drive, does that mean a different drive than fraps or wow? And what does this cause? What would in technical terms make the fps go down because of this?

[Kruf]

When you say record to a different drive, does that mean a different drive than fraps or wow? And what does this cause? What would in technical terms make the fps go down because of this?

It has to be different from:

a) the drive your Windows is installed on
b) the drive your WoW is installed on

because either of those might need to read in some data while you're playing, and since Fraps is already pretty much maxing out the drive it's recording to that has a high probability of causing skipping as the drive won't be fast enough to do both at the same time.

Also note that it has to be a different physical drive, not just a partition on the same drive.

[Vinlann]

If I were to record to a different physical drive about how much of an fps increase am I going to see? I've got a half decent machine.

1.6ghz duo core
320gb hdd
2gb ram
512mb vid card
win7 32bit

Its not the best but its not some of the bad ones I've seen

[opex]

When you say record to a different drive, does that mean a different drive than fraps or wow? And what does this cause? What would in technical terms make the fps go down because of this?

It has to be different from:

a) the drive your Windows is installed on
b) the drive your WoW is installed on

because either of those might need to read in some data while you're playing, and since Fraps is already pretty much maxing out the drive it's recording to that has a high probability of causing skipping as the drive won't be fast enough to do both at the same time.

Also note that it has to be a different physical drive, not just a partition on the same drive.

Im with E8400cpu @4ghz, 9800GTX+ video and 4gb ram.
My main drive is Western Digital 1TB 7200rpm 32mb cache sata II.
I took my old 80gb Hitachi 7200rpm 16mb cache sata I, which tho is in very good condition.
I frapsed ~5min video on Orgrimmar during the rush hour and dpsing the dummy several times with all video settings on ultra and max.

With WoW running from my 1TB main drive and recording on the same drive there is almost no difference than when i'm running WoW from the main drive and recording to the 80gb one.
But if im running WoW from the 80gb drive the game runs smoother and faster and there is also lesser impact when i record on the 1TB drive.

So i'd say its better for everyone to test what combo suits best for his hardware setup - tho, there is logic to better run wow from different drive having all its capacity for it reading/writing from allover it randomly and record (fraps) linearly and constantly data to the main drive.