Manageris98 said:
OK Seriously if you need to record with Fraps when you are Playing Combat Arms then i think that a good way to fix this is that if you have partitioned off a part of your harddrive then if you installed Fraps to the C:/ Drive then you should make a folder in the partitioned part of your drive if partitioned. After that then change fraps to record half size instead of full size, so it takes less to record. Now change the spot where you save the videos to the new folder that you made in the partitioned part of your hard drive. By doing this it should take the lag off when your recording with fraps because when you do this you take the spot that the videos would go to if it was on C:/ opposed to the partitioned part. Your system and Vista or Xp is on the drvie C:/ so thats taking all the room up and your desktop is on C:/ too so that takes a lot of memery just to do that. By doing this it takes less memory to run fraps when they are saving to the partitioned part of your hard drive opposed to the drive where your system is running takiong up all the memory.
I'm not sure how effective this idea would be. You're still limited to the same write speeds.
I have to be honest though, with your system specs, I'm not sure theres anything you can do other than getting a completely new system to make a decent video. Fraps takes a lot out of your system memory. That athalon is probably a what? 2000 series? Those old AMD processors were begging to be over clocked, so that might help a bit, and the two gigs of ram in this case will be useful. But you're really not going to get that much more power out of that rig
If you get a new system take this into consideration: what most people don't realize is that FRAPS and other in game recording has the biggest bottle neck at the hard drive, NOT the CPU or RAM (although these obviously help).
If you're really serious about having high quality recordings, you need to have a SSD hard drive for its godly write speeds.