Your video card is awful, FRAPS will make the frame rate tank, RAM and CPU won't help you. I use WeGame, and I still set it to half size for my YouTube videos so it doesn't ruin my FPS (hard to drive properly with lag), take up an obscene amount of hard drive space (although it's still pretty bad) or take too long to upload to YouTube once edited.

I usually use fraps as I don't wanna alt -tab and run Fraps :P Which is full, but take note : Xfire uses much more resources on recording, basically if you record on /High/ and with Audio On (xfire's settings) it'll have more of a FPS drop than using fraps, but I got used and it's not that bad since I keep my game on 1024x768 .

Back on my old computer I had the same dilema as you, and I found best to go with is Fraps, but take note it wasn't the [latest version, that one was making me lag INCREDIBLY! I was using an older version which worked PERFECT, I had one CORE processor and a GS nvidia card.

Maybe it was Fraps 2.9.8 or 2.8.9 or something but it was old.

Edited August 16, 201114 yr by MasacruAlex