capperz412 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 So I can run Skyrim on my PC. My specs are: NVidia GeForce 8600 GTIntel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40 GHz 2.39 GHz8GB RAM64 bit Operating System I run Skyrim at 1280 x 800 (letterbox) and it has a constant FPS of around 40. I am very happy about this. But when I use Fraps the frame rate drops to around 20. No me gusta. Can anyone give me any advice on how to increase FPS WHILE STILL FILMING IN FULL SIZE? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macdaddy123 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 (edited) I'm having the same problem, I have better specs, and I am writing to a SSD so it should be basically flawless. But it isn't. Edited February 28, 2012 by macdaddy123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capperz412 Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 What's an SSD? (forgive my noobiness) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macdaddy123 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 What's an SSD? (forgive my noobiness) "SSD on Wikipedia" Basically a generally smaller sized Hard-drive that has far larger read/write speeds AFAIK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan3345 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 An SSD (Solid State Drive) is a compact drive with no spinning disks. They work essentially as massive flash drives. Because there is no spinning disk to write on the SSD can read and write digital information much faster than a traditional HDD. As for fraps. This is common knowledge. Not to be insulting but of course. But fraps itself (assuming you are using the free version) is poorly coded and hurts performance while using it. However, you can make sure that you are not recording while using fraps. Thought I do not think you can record while using the free version. I have the paid version so I can record videos while playing, and I get no performance hit. the free one however does cause problems. If you are getting 40fps without fraps why do you need it on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meh12345 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 (edited) Actually, SSD write performance isn't *that* great (it's about the read performance) and can actually become a bottleneck in certain situations (although probably not in this one). But, yeah, fraps by its very nature will cause some kind of a performance hit. Edited February 29, 2012 by meh12345 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkice6 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 hi i use Fraps ver. 3.23 build 11796 and didnt have this issue. Maybe its a bug related to some vesions only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MODinsane Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I was watching one of Gopher's Youtube vids and remember him saying that he uses one of the external hard drives for his Skyrim game. I own one of these solid state drives but haven't tried moving the game over to it. You don't use the installed hard drive anyway with Skyrim, just wondered if it might be a possible help using the other drive. I am, however, considering upgrading from 8G RAM to 16G RAM. It might help with load times, but probably little performance change with Skyrim. Here are my specs: ------------------Overview------------------Processor : AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon HD Graphics Memory : 4096MB(Speed 1600)Mother Board : 182DWindows Version : Microsoft Windows 8 ProInstallation Date : 2012-11-27Monitor : Generic PnP MonitorVideo Adapter : AMD Radeon HD 7640GMouse : Synaptics SMBus TouchPadKeyboard : Standard PS/2 KeyboardDisk Drive : Hitachi HTS547575A9E384 SATA Disk Device(698GB, IDE)DVD/CD-ROM Drive : hp DVD-RAM UJ8B1 SATA CdRom DevicePavilion dv6-7029wm Entertainment PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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