Best setup for recording gameplays?

[zhaine711]

I have an ocz verrtex 4 120gb ssd, a wd black 2tb 64mb 7200 rpm hdd and a wd green 1tb 64mb 7200rpm hdd.

Win7 64bit Operating system and recording software are installed on ssd.
All games are installed on 1tb green and raw gameplay recordings are done on 2tb black.

Is this setup correct or is it hindering recording and/or fps levels?

Thank you for any feedback.

 

[Josh Weston]

I'd probably move the games onto the Black drive, but that's because I like my zippy loading screens. Once they've been recorded it really doesn't matter where you put them, so if you run out of space on your Black for recordings, because of your added games, you can always just siphon them off to the Green.

 

[zhaine711]

I'd probably move the games onto the Black drive, but that's because I like my zippy loading screens. Once they've been recorded it really doesn't matter where you put them, so if you run out of space on your Black for recordings, because of your added games, you can always just siphon them off to the Green.

Won't playing and recording on the same 2tb black affect fps and gameplay?

 

[Josh Weston]

I wouldn't think so, as the game's loaded into the RAM. Although, it may have some adverse consequences. Ok, I go against what I said in my first post - I think you've got the best setup possible right now.

 

[yassarikhan786]

It is not advised to have games installed on the same drive you're recording on to. I've had issues with such a setup in the past. You can always get a T.V tuner card to record game play. With a T.V tuner card the performance hit is negligible, so that is the best setup. If you don't want to use a TV tuner card, you can always get another SSD to record gameplay on to and then transfer the files over to one of your HDDs.

 

[Josh Weston]

Would that not trash the SSD, Yassar?

 

[yassarikhan786]

Would that not trash the SSD, Yassar?

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. In that case a fast mech HDD is the best option, so the OP has an ideal setup.

 

[andrewmchugh]

I guess with recording on the same machine is that fraps is getting the frames from the GPUs frame-buffer which is then been transferred over the PCI express resulting in that frame rate drop. I'm not sure how much fraps stores in cpu side memory before writing to disk.

If you want to maintain the fps you currently have use a capture card in another machine if you are having massive issues.

 

[I Hunta x]

Best options are raid0 the drive OR try a different recording setup.

I ran into this when i was researching the catleap 1440p monitors, Ive tried the below method out on an old sata 1 80gb 5400rpm drive in and it recorded perfectly fine @1080p with like a ~5 fps hit. Its also only like 5gb an hour vs 5gb a min of fraps, also gets rid of the TONS of 4gb parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...tion_970150&src_vid=BJV9IXT5DkQ&v=fvfPXn5VQ0w