Laptop Specs --> Gaming/Fraps?

Question

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ i7 2820QM 2.3GHz (3.4GHz w/Turbo Boost, 8MB Cache) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® 7 Ultimate, 64bit, English edit
MEMORY 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz edit
VIDEO CARD 3.0GB DDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M using NVIDIA Optimus™ technology edit
HARD DRIVE 750GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s edit
LCD PANEL 14.0" High Def+ (900p/1600x900) with WLED backlight edit
WIRELESS CARDS Intel® Advanced-N WiFi Link 6250 a/g/n 2x2 MIMO Technology with WiMax

With these specs I'm confident I'll be able to play WoW on high settings and not have any problems. But what if I run the recording program, Fraps, while I play WoW? Will the computer be able to handle it? Will there be lag? Any ideas/general advice is more than welcome.

Answer 1

I am not sure about fraps, but with Game Camcorder you should't get lags with suuch specs

Answer 2

Fraps does not compress the video as it records, so there will be lag regardless how good your computer is because it has to write massive files to your hard disk drive.



Try Bandicam recorder. Bandicam compresses the recording video when recording, and uses much lower CPU/GPU/RAM usage than Fraps. As a result, you may have much less lag.

Answer 3

Dude,,you are so silly,,

thats a solid build,

even crysis2 with fraps wont lag:)_

Cod WOW is like 2 generations older to Crysis 2

You'll do Great!!

Cheers!!!!

Answer 4

FRAPS is largely CPU and disk dependent. It'll always give you a minor hit, but I doubt it'll be very significant on this laptop. You'll be fine.