FRAPS and Half-Life 2 / other video related output

[INSANEPOOKIE]

Heya.

Problem:
When I try and FRAPS even at 25FPS my computer becomes very choppy and Half-Life 2 becomes unplayable.

It works fine on the first chapter and craps out like that in two.
As a semi test I tried to FRAPS a DVD that was playing, same problem.
I lowered the video settings within the game down to 800x600 with crappy settings, same problem but slightly better.

This seems like the simply problem of not being able to write to the hard drive fast enough.

I've tried having FRAPS save to both hard drives which yielded the same results.

Questions:
Are there any little tricks or tips to make this work with my current setup?
If not, what is needed to record at high quality with games and such?

Hard drive space would not be an issue.


My specs:

I tried this with Windows XP Pro and Home not that it should matter.

P4P800 SE
- Intel 865PE Chipset
-800 MHz FSB
-Dual-Channel DDR400 Memory
-Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
-Wi-Fi slot for optional wireless LAN upgrade

pc2-3200 ddr2-400 512mb x 3

Maxtor Maxtor 200GB 16MB (160GB free)

SATA 120GB (85GB free)

ATI X800 256mb ddr AGP



Thanks for any help.

[INSANEPOOKIE]

Oh yea, I do have the hard drives on seperate channels (0 and 1) of course.

[Ankerson]

FRAPS will slow down your Frame rates in any game.

You have an X800 ??? Pro, XL, SE, XT???

[INSANEPOOKIE]

The XL version.

When I say slow down I mean completely unplayable.

The previous parts in game are smooth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ZP3-nbrcM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWJGgWar5ow

but once I hit the next areas it just chokes (and there isn't any activity going on other than me standing there jumping up and down)

[Ankerson]

Interesting.

The XL should play that with no problem. :confused:

Must be a bug when FRAPS is used.