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Fraps (derived from Frames per second) is a universal Windows application for benchmarking, screen capture, and real-time video capture for games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology.
It is commonly used to determine a computer's performance with a game, as well as record gaming footage.
Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen.
Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.
Take a screenshot in BMP, TGA, JPEG, and PNG formats with the press of a key. Your screen captures are automatically named and time stamped.
The program is very popular in the making of amateur machinima films.
Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:
• Benchmarking Software
Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.
• Screen Capture Software
Take a screenshot with the press of a key.
There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot.
Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.
• Realtime Video Capture Software
Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game?Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560x1600 on dual-core CPUs (1152x864 single-core) at up to 100 frames per second.
Record microphone and speakers at the same time
For Windows 7 and Vista we've added realtime sound mixing to our video recording so you can now capture both sides of the conversation.
The lossless Fraps codec allows decoding of Fraps-encoded videos (using a media player capable of decoding the AVI container format) or transcoding to other video formats (with the use of the right software).
The Fraps video codec manages to capture videos with minimal impact on game performance, as it has been optimized to achieve compression higher than uncompressed RGB, resulting in smaller filesizes, though the lossless format is considerably less space-efficient than more heavily compressed lossy video formats such as DivX.
This is because encoding on-the-fly to a high-compression format such as DivX would have a large negative impact on game performance and only a very fast hard drive could record the immense amount of data produced in using uncompressed video.
The Fraps format is a compromise of the two.
NVIDIA have recently included stereoscopic 3D support directly into their drivers.
If you play your DirectX9 (D3D9) game with 3D Vision enabled you can use Fraps to record the game in full 3D.
You'll get a side-by-side stereo AVI recording that you can drop straight in to a stereoscopic 3D player.
We've added a new option to force lossless RGB compression to ensure that you always have the highest quality video output to work with.
Changelog:
v3.4.5:
- Fixed some videos being recorded with scrambled colors
v3.4.4:
- Increased performance capturing Vista/Windows 7 aero desktop (DWM)
- Reduced memory footprint of Fraps process
- Fixed Fraps crash while idling on desktop
- Fixed gem glowing while recording The Dark Mod
- Fixed hotkeys not responding when simulated from autohotkey/macro apps
- Fixed graphic corruption in some OpenGL titles
v3.4.3:
- Improved DirectDraw capture speed
- Fixed recording crash on single CPU systems
- Fixed invalid colors/crashing recording from 16-bit color games
- Fixed corrupt/oversized AVIs being written at high resolutions
- Fixed Dirt not loading with Fraps running
- Other minor bug fixes and optimizations
v3.4.2:
- Improved OpenGL capture speed
- Fixed freeze when clicking on Minimize button
- Fixed GL state not being restored properly
- Fixed blank video showing in some AVIs
v3.4.1:
- Fixed crash when starting Fraps for some users
- Fixed hotkeys not being detected when modifier keys held
- Fixed keys getting stuck when used by both the game and Fraps
v3.4.0:
- Added configurable buffer size for loop recording mode
- Increased video capture performance at high resolutions
- Fixed slow recording of Minecraft at default window size
- Fixed benchmark crashing when configured to stop automatically after 1 second
Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.
• Screen Capture Software
Take a screenshot with the press of a key.
There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot.
Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.
• Realtime Video Capture Software
Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game?Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560x1600 on dual-core CPUs (1152x864 single-core) at up to 100 frames per second.
Record microphone and speakers at the same time
For Windows 7 and Vista we've added realtime sound mixing to our video recording so you can now capture both sides of the conversation.
The lossless Fraps codec allows decoding of Fraps-encoded videos (using a media player capable of decoding the AVI container format) or transcoding to other video formats (with the use of the right software).
The Fraps video codec manages to capture videos with minimal impact on game performance, as it has been optimized to achieve compression higher than uncompressed RGB, resulting in smaller filesizes, though the lossless format is considerably less space-efficient than more heavily compressed lossy video formats such as DivX.
This is because encoding on-the-fly to a high-compression format such as DivX would have a large negative impact on game performance and only a very fast hard drive could record the immense amount of data produced in using uncompressed video.
The Fraps format is a compromise of the two.
NVIDIA have recently included stereoscopic 3D support directly into their drivers.
If you play your DirectX9 (D3D9) game with 3D Vision enabled you can use Fraps to record the game in full 3D.
You'll get a side-by-side stereo AVI recording that you can drop straight in to a stereoscopic 3D player.
We've added a new option to force lossless RGB compression to ensure that you always have the highest quality video output to work with.
Changelog:
v3.4.5:
- Fixed some videos being recorded with scrambled colors
v3.4.4:
- Increased performance capturing Vista/Windows 7 aero desktop (DWM)
- Reduced memory footprint of Fraps process
- Fixed Fraps crash while idling on desktop
- Fixed gem glowing while recording The Dark Mod
- Fixed hotkeys not responding when simulated from autohotkey/macro apps
- Fixed graphic corruption in some OpenGL titles
v3.4.3:
- Improved DirectDraw capture speed
- Fixed recording crash on single CPU systems
- Fixed invalid colors/crashing recording from 16-bit color games
- Fixed corrupt/oversized AVIs being written at high resolutions
- Fixed Dirt not loading with Fraps running
- Other minor bug fixes and optimizations
v3.4.2:
- Improved OpenGL capture speed
- Fixed freeze when clicking on Minimize button
- Fixed GL state not being restored properly
- Fixed blank video showing in some AVIs
v3.4.1:
- Fixed crash when starting Fraps for some users
- Fixed hotkeys not being detected when modifier keys held
- Fixed keys getting stuck when used by both the game and Fraps
v3.4.0:
- Added configurable buffer size for loop recording mode
- Increased video capture performance at high resolutions
- Fixed slow recording of Minecraft at default window size
- Fixed benchmark crashing when configured to stop automatically after 1 second