After reading what Dobs uses on a previous thread, I downloaded "Action" and agree that the overall computer performance with Action, is much better than with Fraps! I'm also running a core i7, 8GB RAM, Radeon 7870 2GB graphics card. With this pc and using Fraps, I had frame rate issues and numerous unhandled exception type errors. Since using Action, everything is smooth as silk. Set up a hot key to start/stop recording and I have the capture set at 50fps. Fraps would run fine for a relatively short while, then start causing performance issues and finally random freezes of the system. No problems encountered since I started using Action.
I'd post some of my videos, but 99% of them are boring and go like this... take off, fly toward trouble, find trouble before I thought I would, quickly start losing pieces (especially that dang elevator), hit ground in a firey mess, zombie back on the run way to rinse and repeat.
Dobs probably paid extra to receive the "Hollywood" version of Action which assures him that he will be the winner in 99% of his videos
I don't make that kind of money.