Authors CurseForge

I've always wanted to record our guild runs, but never seemed to have the thing for framerates at all. Even myself seem to drop below 20fps~ in 25 mans, especially in those AoE heavy fights, be it trash or boss fights that require a lot of movement.

The thing is, some people that I've asked have posted their hardware specs, but not their WoW settings. Could spell detail etc really have such an impact on performance?

I've included a DirectX Diagnostic zipped, since the file was too big for the forum standards. And about Windows 7? I've had the same prob with XP/Vista back in TBC. If anyone could help me with that I should change/add, it would be great. And please, no comments such as: Move over to MAC/Linux...

Are you using fraps to record?

Yes, set at 29.97 FPS

Move to mac.

Note, I don't care, I just had to post that.

Well duh, but the problem is that my FPS drops to 10-20~ in some cases (like in 25 mans as noted above). I was wondering if anyone knew if the video settings might hog the performance that badly, or am I missing something?

I can't record record fights with 10fps, gotta make that go away before I move on. And as I see it my hardware should handle the settings I use.

I think it's time for an upgrade. Tried WeGame's client for recording btw?

Posting the DxDiag is totally useless...rather list your Hardware short instead of forcing people to help you Download that file...

A general problem of WoW is that performance in 25mans (or 40mans) are generally worse than in normal instances, especially when alot fancy effects come in. AddOns such as Recount and alike even make it worse.
Its mostly the CPU maxxed out(1 core especially), and WoW has the problem that its multicore capabilites are quite limited when it comes to the graphics.
Fraps itself uses, depending on the resolution and fps used, quite alot of system resources itself.
Things I discovered helping the fps drop at Recording:
Moving to a Quad Core (FPS drop went under 20% compared to ~40-60% before on my Single Core)
Storing the Movie on a different HDD(not partition)
Running in Fullscreen rather than Windowed/Maximized(this affects the performance on Vista [and prolly 7] aswell quite a bit)

And using lower Graphic Settings with less effects that eat up CPU cycles will surely not hurt your Recording FPS :P
Same goes for AddOns that require lots of CPU Cycles in a raids...

The WeGame client (if they didnt change it since I have tried it) records in crap³ quality compared to Fraps.

Quote from Matrix110

Things I discovered helping the fps drop at Recording:
Moving to a Quad Core (FPS drop went under 20% compared to ~40-60% before on my Single Core)
Storing the Movie on a different HDD(not partition)
Running in Fullscreen rather than Windowed/Maximized(this affects the performance on Vista [and prolly 7] aswell quite a bit)

Guess it's time to upgrade my Pentium D to a Q9550+. Anyways the things below that's mostly common sense, but I wasn't really thinking about CPU Cycles. Cheers!

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You should have wow on a different drive to the main C drive and fraps on a separate one from that. All the HD grinding is what kills your FPS, trust me.

I've always had WoW on a another drive same goes for fraps. I gained 20fps~ from turning off the windowed/fullscreen mode.