minecraft-java-edition,technical-issues,graphics-card – Fixing Blurry Signs in Minecraft: Java Edition

Well turns out I discovered the answer to this myself.

Fraps heavily writes to the HDD, and slows down the game if it can't write the videos fast enough. For me, this was because my HDD was becoming rapidly fragmented as Fraps ran over long periods of time (about 10% after 1 hour). This was causing Fraps to not be able to keep up with the action.

From my research, there are two fixes to this:

• Record to a second HDD dedicated to Fraps
• Set Fraps to record at a lower resolution or lower framerate. For instance, record at 30fps, but turn off framerate lock so the game isn't reduced to 30fps (probably the best solution).
• Take a break every time Fraps decides to slow down, and defrag your disk.

I hope this helps someone out in the future!

The default frame rate that Fraps used to record is 25, look at your setting and increase that to 40. The problem I suspect is Fraps is max capping your FPS. If you increase this the problem will go away.

Fraps do this to save space on the recorded video.

This is a link to the page that shows how to change those settings to ensure that your frame rate is not capped at 25 or a lower setting.