Fraps & AverTV HDMI Capture lagging

[dd11]

I've seen many people talking about fraps lagging when they record there games etc, however this is slightly different.

So I got an Avertv 727 HD Capture Card, see here: http://www.avermedia.com/avertv/Prod...il.aspx?Id=499 which basically enables me to record from an HDMI source, great. But because of HDCP i can't record me playing my PS3 games, annoying but I see people have been using fraps to record it from the capture card which works fine for me but only at 30fps or lower and at half size, any more and it starts to stutter.

I've read alot of posts by people who have good pc's but still have lag. My current setup for the capture pc is:
Quad Core 8300
Gainward 9800GT
2GB RAM

...and it saves the file over a Gigabit network to a 1TB WD (5400rpm) or to my 500GB 7200rmp. (I Have tried a second hard drive physically in the same pc but doesn't seem to be any different).

I've also tried it on my main pc which is:
Q6600
3GB Ram
9800GT
...but get the same results.

I'm thinking that the capture pc is just not powerfull enough, so would I be right in upgrading: graphics card, ram & possibly CPU? I want to be able to record full size.

I was looking at the ATI HD 5770, but im not in the know with ATI cards so I don't know. Something under £200 would be good.

An maybe an i5? or is that still not enough?

I'd be very gratefull if someone could help me out here Cheers.

[dd11]

Also i forgot to add the graphics cards gotta have a HDMI out.

[Graham M]

It's probably down to your CPU to be honest, have you checked usage while both are running?

[dd11]

Maybe, i've not checked, i'll have a look tomorrow though when i have it all hooked up and see what the usage is like.

[dd11]

Originally Posted by Graham M

It's probably down to your CPU to be honest, have you checked usage while both are running?

With just fraps & avertv capture programs running (but not recording) usage is around:
25% CPU | 753MB memory

...an with fraps recording, usage is around:
60fps full size: 30% CPU | 907MB
30fps full size: 29% CPU | 796Mb

60fps half size: 38% CPU | 779MB
30fps half size: 43% CPU |778MB

[dd11]

I know this was three months ago, but I thought I would update the thread just for anyone else who may come across it with a similar situation

So in these 3 months I upgraded...
CPU to Core i7 920
RAM to 4GB
Motherboard to ASUS P6T, and now currently using Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
Graphics card to ATI 5770 and now currently using Nvidia GTX260

...and I still had the stuttering black out problem.

Then the other week I set up four WD 7200rpm hard drives RAID 0, and bingo! It works flawlessly now. So it appears just using one drive was too slow for my needs.

I have have since stopped using Fraps as the file sizes were just ridiculous. I now use Windows Media Encoder 64-bit to capture from the AverTV HDMI card. Imo much better in terms of video quality, cpu load and file size. Only nag is that you gotta input audio seperatly as WME doesn't detect it through the capture card.

[damien c]

i'm using fraps to record vid's of myself playing call of duty mw2 on my pc, and i get lag in the video's sometime's when recording to a samsung 1tb drive.

I might look at adding a few fast drive's in raid for the recording's see if that help's aswell glad i saw this, post cheer's.

[vanman]

hi my son uses a tv capture card plugs his xbox 360
into the composite plays the game on the PC Monitor
at the same time uses. the pvr to record it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tziC6aUhYR8
this will help
http://www.youtube.com/user/wepeeler.../0/jTWcDMjwlmQ
http://www.youtube.com/user/wepeeler.../1/7t0Y96if40c
http://www.youtube.com/user/wepeeler.../2/rAUdxytNn6A

and this is one i did
http://www.youtube.com/user/HoodLU4b.../8/7zF0Ph8_WrQ