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Help! recorder lag!
I have a really really nice new computer with 12gb of ram, and minecraft can go up to 700fps. Whenever I record though (using fraps) it drops to about 20fps and has lag spikes half of the time. Which is about the same as what I got when I had the same computer with only 4gb of ram. Would devoting more or less memory to minecraft help, or installing something like optifine?
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Try using optifine and make sure you have the set FPS for the recording to 30 (if you do 60 the file size will just be bigger, causing a lack of memory.) I hope this works, because this worked for me even though I have a 4GB of ram computer.
Yeah, FRAPS can be a CPU hog, I've never had too many issues with it, if you're okay with sacrificing a little quality at higher playback resolutions, you can always capture half frames instead of full. On an older comp I had it was the only way to get halfway decent framerates. But your comp shouldn't be struggling that much if its new... :/
It could be FRAPS hogging everything. It could also be that it is eating your CPU, which might not be too good.
