Videocap/Fraps on M17x R1 in WOW. Need help.

What's up everyone! It's been a long time since I've posted on NBR, I've just been enjoying my M17x, not really any problems, so not much to complain about.

So I've been playing a lot of WOW, yeah yeah whatever, exclusively arena and enjoy 60fps on all of the arena maps. I recently hit 2400 rated in 3v3 and I'm trying to make a push for Gladiator so I thought to myself, I'd really like to start video capturing / frapsing my games so my team and I can dissect our decisions and improve on them.

So what I've noticed is that despite changing resolutions, changing graphic settings, using both Xfire and Fraps to capture the video, my FPS takes a dramatic dip. Starts at about 25fps and then gets progressively lower, about 15fps. I find this odd because the dip is so dramatic, it's unplayable for the most part.

So my question to all of you is, whether it's in WOW or not, have you experienced a similar problem? I understand that you would take a dip in FPS by frapsing but does it take you from max fps to 15? From what I've seen in various videos is that it doesn't dip this drastically.

Could it be the speed of the hard drive which is slowing the ability to create the file? Maybe it's that I'm using hybrid SLI, although I haven't experienced any problems running it without fraps. Any suggestions are kindly appreciated. My specs are in my sig! Thanks everyone.

 

I have the 128gb SSD and every time I've tried to fraps Mount & Blade Warband, I bounce from 100fps down to 0fps every few seconds. Smooth video for like 2-3 seconds, then stutter. The FPS just bounce over and over until I turn off the video capture. Really bizarre because I've fraps'd videos on other high-end machines running high fps in games without this much lag.

 

If you are playing online game. Like wow or Lotro you do have to account for Internet connection and server lag. Even people with the fastest desktop going to have lag in areas that have alot of people.