I'm starting up a new channel called GuildCraft in which I will be making Guild Wars 2 and Minecraft gameplay videos with commentary. (http://www.youtube.com/user/lGuildCraftl?feature=mhee I don't have anything up yet, but plan to upload a few videos by tomorrow! Once I get my new computer, I can start making my own videos about the game.) I'm wondering how well FRAPS records... Do I need a high-end computer to use this program without it lagging, or does it create virtually no lag?

Forgive me in advance, I wasn't sure where to put this post so this was my best guess.

fraps  should be ok  ive never got lag from useing it  if useing for gws2 then should have a  good pc any how  . all so try gamecam as well  found that  to run even better than fraps

My specs are AMD Phenom II x4 955BE 3.2Ghz processor, ATI Radeon HD6950 1GB and 4GB RAM DDRIII. While recording Skyrim with max settings and all high resolution mods, I got no lag while recording at 25 FPS.

What's your specs?

Originally posted by thedarkess

My specs are AMD Phenom II x4 955BE 3.2Ghz processor, ATI Radeon HD6950 1GB and 4GB RAM DDRIII. While recording Skyrim with max settings and all high resolution mods, I got no lag while recording at 25 FPS.

What's your specs?

I'm not sure. I'm still deciding on all the parts and whatnot. I'm planning on deciding and ordering everything by next week sometime. It was be a pretty good machine though. It would be the best of the best but definitely good enough to play Guild Wars 2 on max settings, which is good enough for me.

Best way to ensure no fraps lag, or at least minimal. Is have a quad core cpu and fraps onto a seperate drive to your OS/Game install. Do those two easy things and bam, you will be fine

Originally posted by Venomania

Best way to ensure no fraps lag, or at least minimal. Is have a quad core cpu and fraps onto a seperate drive to your OS/Game install. Do those two easy things and bam, you will be fine

Ditto.

Tons of free HD space with free space defragmentation.  Maybe setup a partition (do ppl still do this?)  just for frapsing.

Fraps needs to support other codecs, until then it is useless because it splits up files into 4GB chunks as AVI 1.0 doens't support files bigger than that.

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Originally posted by skullquaker
fraps  should be ok  ive never got lag from useing it  if useing for gws2 then should have a  good pc any how  . all so try gamecam as well  found that  to run even better than fraps

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Always usiing FRAPS when gaming so i can post it in you tube.

It's still good and for me is fully recommended.

I love FRAPS, but if you're recording tons of stuff you'll want to have a scratch drive or set up WatchFolder to process videos automatically with HandBrake. FRAPS records raw video so it fills up space fast.