What is fraps program ? The answer to this question can be found in this article.
Fraps is a universal program for capturing videos or photos from a monitor screen. It can easily work with any games (running both on OpenGL and DirectX), count the number of FPS (frames per second) for a comfortable game.
The fraps program with its wide capabilities allows you to:
- Display FPS during the gameplay, which determines the speed of the game in the most demanding places.
- Take a screenshot of the screen in one click. The picture will contain detailed information about the time and date.
- Capture video. Recording game fragments of high resolution with a long length.
For all this, you need to know how to use fraps . The Internet is full of information, but most often it contains a lot of water and unnecessary information. We will try to give you brief tips on the most pressing issues.
How to use fraps?
At the first start, pay attention to the bottom of the program window, where you can select the “Start Fraps with Windows” option, which will allow you to remember to run the utility during games and remove an important point in time.
How to use fraps immediately at system startup, and so that it does not interfere? Very simple: put a bird in front of the “Start Fraps minimized” item, which will allow you to immediately launch it from the system tray, and its window will not be an eyesore for you.
The question of how to use fraps will immediately disappear if you have a modern technological keyboard with an additional screen. All information and functions of the screen capture utility will be available on the monitor of your keyboard.
But the counter-question arises of whether this utility does not require a large amount of system resources, which reduces the frame rate in the game? The answer is no. A fraps needs a minimum amount of allocated memory, which in no way affects performance. But be careful: when you record video of the gameplay (good quality at high resolution), performance may drop due to the small amount of RAM that is required to process and write material to the system’s hard drive.
How to use fraps when capturing images and videos from a monitor screen
Let's start with the images. First, it’s worth deciding on a folder for storing screenshots taken (by default there is a folder in the root of the program, but it can be changed to any convenient for you). For quick and efficient capture (it may be necessary to take a screenshot in a few seconds, otherwise the moment will be missed) there is the possibility of assigning “hot keys” (a button or a group of buttons that instantly take a screenshot when pressed). Captured photos can be saved in various formats (BMP, JPG, PNG) and a maximum resolution of 3840x1200 or 2880x1600.
How to use fraps when capturing video? This will take a little longer, as there are more features and specifics in this matter. The “hot keys” and the folder for storing files are configured in the same way (you should choose a disk on which there is more free space than the rest).
It’s worthwhile to dwell on the choice of frame rate for video capture: the larger the value, the smoother the playback, but this will significantly affect the size of the final file. Do not chase the big numbers. The item “Half resolution” will affect the picture of the recorded video, which will reduce the resolution by half.
It is worth mentioning that the sound recording will also affect the size of the final file , so pre-calculate whether you have enough space or not. For convenience, you can break long and heavy clips into 4 GB pieces. The most convenient function may be - “Hide the mouse cursor on the video”. We will not dwell on it.
Important: when capturing video from the screen, the file will not be compressed by codecs, it is recorded in the original format. Therefore, the recorded video weighs so much. The maximum resolution for recording is 7680x4800 (you yourself understand the consequences of such a huge resolution).