Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs utilising DirectX or OpenGL technology. It also allows you to easily take screenshots of games, and manually determine the average framerate between two points.
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Rated 30/50 by Smasherx74 at Aug 27, 2010
Custom FPS is great, It's been one of the best game recorders sense it first came out, It is simply a great game recorder. It lags when recording using a slower computer. Also the codec does not compress very good. It gets better every time it updates.
Rated 50/50 by Marti357 at Oct 24, 2010
Easy to use, easy to install, uses little resources. Does not interfere with gaming. Doesn't work on web pages, only on games. Like a lot, use a lot.
Rated 40/50 by nekollx at Nov 10, 2010
can capture just about any game and show the frames, and buying the retail version is cheep as hell. none at all
Rated 30/50 by war593122 at Dec 3, 2010
"and also, it defaults the installation directory to C:\Fraps ???? how INCREDIBLY cheap is that by these days? my god..." Indeed, fix already!!
Rated 40/50 by larry715 at Dec 18, 2010
shows frame rates and other information- allows benchmarking none that I can think of none
Rated 40/50 by BugattiVeyron41 at Jan 20, 2011
Can record up to 60 fps. You can only record for 30 seconds. A little trick that I use is when the 30 second video is over, start a new one straight away. Then use something like Windows Movie Maker to put the videos back together. There will be a little "flick" every 30 seconds but it is better than recording just 30 seconds.
Rated 40/50 by DudeBoyz at Jan 23, 2011
This is a very good program, but it is expensive. I purchased it and use it, but wish it was a better value. If this program could record not only 3D games but the entire Windows desktop, sort of like CamStudio, then I think it would be more worth it. Still, it is pretty much the best at what it does on the Windows platform, and I can't deny the quality of the app. It has multi-core and multi-thread support and cooperates with games that also supports those technologies, and I believe it installs the 64 bit code if you have Windows 7 64 bit as your host, so recording at higher resolutions at 60 fps is more workable than ever.
Rated 50/50 by DKDude at Mar 10, 2011
@Raimondas Thanks for the links, will take a look at those programs, but cheaper is not all true ;) So far I stick with my beloved FRAPS, but I'll test those programs. EDIT: Now I did test those programs, and nope, they are no way near what FRAPS can do when it's about recording games. @Dudeboyz, yes FRAPS is a good investment, so far no program comes even close to FRAPS performance.
Rated 50/50 by midfingr at Mar 10, 2011
I purchased FRAPS a few years back. Great application and updated frequently.
Rated 40/50 by DudeBoyz at Mar 12, 2011
I've been googling and trying just about everything I can get my hands on, but for games, FRAPS is just the very best at what it does. Some of those apps that USED to be free are no longer free, and some are just not well developed at all any more. FRAPS is the most current, most flexible and most capable of anything I've found. It just flat out works for almost every game I have. For screen capture of the main interface, I use CamStudio also, and that is great for pretty much everything else. The new update gives us even more options to help find a compatible method of activation. Some games don't deal with the F9 thing well, and some don't do keypresses well at all, but these extra mouse button options are really useful. I can with FRAPS choose 29.97, 30, 59.94 or 60 fps no sweat, and lock the rate too, which means I can set it for 60, make sure VSYNC and Triple Buffering are on and my games play at 60 fps (lcd) and then my video software can export at a full 60 fps and then even upload to YouTube and get very smooth playback because all the settings matched, from system to FRAPS to game to video export, meaning no stuttering during playback on the YouTube. So for me, the investment is becoming more and more worth it, especially as I start playing more DX 11 games with all that tessellation. :) Well recommended.
Rated 40/50 by Ryusennin at Mar 12, 2011
GunCam is far poorer in terms of sheer performance. ZD Screen Recorder is just not made for capturing demanding apps like videos or games. The only thing really missing from Fraps is region capture and DirectDraw support, both of which are present in CamStudio (a decent and free alternative if you don't need any framerate-perfect solution).
Rated 40/50 by DudeBoyz at Mar 17, 2011
Nothing broken that I can tell. Still runs great, gives great results. Remember, when you install FRAPS, the codec is auto-installed, so on any system where FRAPS is installed, you can edit videos without any issues that I have been able to find.
Rated 40/50 by DudeBoyz at Apr 17, 2011
Workin' smooth, nothing broken. Street Fighter 4 at 1280x720 with 4xAA, 8xAF and all the goodies on locked at 60fps and records without a hiccup, for example. Very cool.
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