FRAPS to Make a Comeback with Windows 10 Support

btarunr · Jul 20, 2016

The popular frame-rate overlay, screengrab and recording utility FRAPS is set to make a comeback. The new version 3.6.0 comes with official Windows 10 support, with support for all of the utility's nifty features. FRAPS developer Beepa did not comment on when they plan to release version 3.6.0, only stating that they "hope to have it available as soon as possible," and that its development is in progress. Meanwhile we have a screenshot of a development build running on Windows 10 to chew on.

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$ReaPeR$ · Jul 20, 2016

i already use fraps on win10 with no problems whatsoever..

Prima.Vera · Jul 20, 2016

Yeah, what's the deal?

If I would be the developer, I would focus on making the FRAPS more compatible with SMAA, option to change the font, color and specially the SIZE for that shitty yellow FPS count, etc.

PP Mguire · Jul 20, 2016

I'll stick to using Afterburner.

eno_telracs · Jul 20, 2016

Prima.Vera said:
Yeah, what's the deal?

If I would be the developer, I would focus on making the FRAPS more compatible with SMAA, option to change the font, color and specially the SIZE for that shitty yellow FPS count, etc.

It's free to develop your own software. "if I were the developer"... Start developing or stop complaining.

Fraps doesn't record the FPS marker, so it doesn't matter. Simply turn it off and use in game FPS markers from the console command. Problem solved.

Rubble · Jul 20, 2016

Hopefully this will add dx12 and/or vulkan support as well. Otherwise, FINALLY, its been years xD

Ahhzz · Jul 20, 2016

eno_telracs said:
It's free to develop your own software. "if I were the developer"... Start developing or stop complaining.

Fraps doesn't record the FPS marker, so it doesn't matter. Simply turn it off and use in game FPS markers from the console command. Problem solved.

Did you seriously register simply to snip at someone over a comment?

qubit · Jul 20, 2016

I've used this for years for free. It's a great utility which I'm now gonna buy in order to support the developers.

Primey_ · Jul 20, 2016

FRAPS works just fine on Windows 10.

captainskyhawk · Jul 20, 2016

qubit said:
I've used this for years for free. It's a great utility which I'm now gonna buy in order to support the developers.

I bought it years ago, you won't regret it! (I wanted to remove the watermark, I think). I hope they still honor previous purchasers.

INSTG8R · Jul 20, 2016

Owned it for years. I have had a G15 an 2 G19s and FRAPS displays on the LCD nothing on my screen. I wondered if he'd abandoned it. I hope he adds new API Support.

natr0n · Jul 20, 2016

It sure could use hardware acceleration to keep up with the competition.

Jetster · Jul 20, 2016

Shadow play

BadIronTree · Jul 20, 2016

Its ALIVE

ty_ger · Jul 20, 2016

natr0n said:
It sure could use hardware acceleration to keep up with the competition.

What would hardware acceleration accomplish? FRAPS records its movie output in raw uncompressed format. It basically streams the data straight to your HDD/SSD without any computation performed on that data stream. There is nothing to hardware accelerate.

To need hardware acceleration, first FRAPS would need to incorporate options to store video in compressed formats.

natr0n · Jul 20, 2016

ty_ger said:
What would hardware acceleration accomplish? FRAPS records its movie output in raw uncompressed format. It basically streams the data straight to your HDD/SSD without any computation performed on that data stream. There is nothing to hardware accelerate.

To need hardware acceleration, first FRAPS would need to incorporate options to store video in compressed formats.

It saves time not having to re-encode videos. Also, for example lets says someone has a small capacity ssd or mechanical drive. It's gonna have major performance drops.

ty_ger · Jul 20, 2016

natr0n said:
It saves time not having to re-encode videos. Also, for example lets says someone has a small capacity ssd or mechanical drive. It's gonna have major performance drops.

I completely agree. It's a pain in the butt having to spend time re-encoding/compressing it. I was pointing out that the original request was wrong. Don't request for hardware acceleration. First, request for compression encoding support. THEN, request for hardware acceleration.

In its current form, hardware acceleration would accomplish absolutely nothing.

Batou1986 · Jul 20, 2016

Fraps is garbage MSI AB does everything and more better than Fraps if you know how to configure it.

The only thing ALL of the overlay programs lack at this point is support for Metro style MS apps and DX12

natr0n · Jul 20, 2016

ty_ger said:
I completely agree. It's a pain in the butt having to spend time re-encoding/compressing it. I was pointing out that the original request was wrong. Don't request for hardware acceleration. First, request for compression encoding support. THEN, request for hardware acceleration.

In its current form, hardware acceleration would accomplish absolutely nothing.

Yeah I think i got the terms mixed up.

so11ex · Jul 20, 2016

Open Broadcaster. Easy to capture: fullscreen, screen region, selected window, video source (webcam etc) Supports all possible hardware encoders (nvidia cuda / intel quicksync) Can broadcast or record video. Freeware.

Primey_ · Jul 20, 2016

so11ex said:
Open Broadcaster. Easy to capture: fullscreen, screen region, selected window, video source (webcam etc) Supports all possible hardware encoders (nvidia cuda / intel quicksync) Can broadcast or record video. Freeware.

You seem to have completely forgot the main reason why people use FRAPS: Easy FPS benchmarking. OBS doesn't provide that. You can't compare the two, fraps isn't just about recording.

rtwjunkie · Jul 20, 2016

Batou1986 said:
The only thing ALL of the overlay programs lack at this point is support for Metro style MS apps and DX12

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. An update is needed for DX12.

HTC · Jul 20, 2016

so11ex said:
Open Broadcaster. Easy to capture: fullscreen, screen region, selected window, video source (webcam etc) Supports all possible hardware encoders (nvidia cuda / intel quicksync) Can broadcast or record video. Freeware.

I used that for diablo 3 RoS. Considering i played @ 1600 / 900 using an APU with only onboard video, it worked quite well, for me.

Primey_ said:
You seem to have completely forgot the main reason why people use FRAPS: Easy FPS benchmarking. OBS doesn't provide that. You can't compare the two, fraps isn't just about recording.

... Use both ... fraps to just show the FPS and OBS to record ...

TheDeeGee · Jul 20, 2016

$ReaPeR$ said:
i already use fraps on win10 with no problems whatsoever..

Ye? Try to make some screenshots.

hanzawhtet7 · Jul 20, 2016

There is a better recorder called Action!. It saves me a lot of HDD space.

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