Fraps 3.2.3
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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.
- License: shareware ($37)
- Updated: Nov 24, 2009
- Publisher: Beepa Pty Ltd
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Rated 30/50 by thartist at Nov 8, 2009
New interface looks horribly amateur, and unfortunately it doesn't record video in other format than the very bulky AVI, not even in the paid version... Besides, only bmp in free version? being almost 2010, bmp? Getting JPG is not a compelling reason to buy it as long as i can convert the bmps, just a silly nag. This should just be freeware
Rated 30/50 by thartist at Nov 18, 2009
and also, it defaults the installation directory to C:\Fraps ???? how INCREDIBLY cheap is that by these days? my god...
Rated 50/50 by Prospero424 at Dec 11, 2009
It records in a bulky avi format because it's recording uncompressed video and audio. Trust me, you do NOT want to be trying to play a game while your CPU is trying to compress a 30-, 50-, or even 60-fps video of your gameplay to XviD/DivX/AVC/whatever in REAL TIME. And since most MPEG2/AVC hardware acceleration is GPU-based, it can't be leveraged while playing a game, either. At least not without a serious performance hit. Basically, Fraps taxes your i/o subsystem during gameplay instead of your processor and video card. And that's how you want it. Trust me. Also, the way I use Fraps to record gameplay, I wind up with about a dozen files that are roughly 4GB a piece for about an hour of game time. I wouldn't want the capture program burying file sets THAT large deep in the directory structure, so slapping the Fraps folder right on the root directory (C:\) makes sense to me. But maybe that's just me. As for saying it should be freeware: well, why? As far as I'm aware, it really has no competition. I can't find any other program that performs this function, much less one for free. So why shouldn't they make money from their hard work? But yeah, the interface is still pug-ugly. Good thing it just sits in the system tray 99% of the time. Also, I HIGHLY suggest a quad-core processor or better if you're going to record at anything higher than 720p 30FPS.
Rated 40/50 by DudeBoyz at Feb 10, 2010
$37 USD seems high, and it's not "perfect" but it is pretty good at what it does. Record at 800x600 or 1280x960 and use VirtualDub and the XviD Codec to convert it to 640x480 for upload to YouTube and you are good to go.
Rated 50/50 by Somnambulator at Jun 15, 2010
if it were $10 or less i would have bought it years ago. As a program it is exceptional. As a product, it is hardly worth $40 for the average gamer. It has uses outside of gaming that might be worth the money, but not as an FPS viewer and screen recorder for someone who plays games and wants to share their play. cut the price to $5-15 and i'd buy it in a heartbeat. nothing else compares to it for ease of use, all-in-one capabilities, and amount of updates