All the video settings are quite straightforward. You should also set the resolution of the resultant video. You should also set the frames per second that you want the video recorded in. You should also set your hotkey for starting and stopping the recording by default it is F9. Change this setting if you want it to be saved in another folder. By default the video will be saved in the same folder that your Fraps tool is installed. Click on it so you can adjust the settings of your video recording. At the top of the window, you will find the “Movies” tab. After launching the program, you will get a small window, which stays on top of any other open window this is the window in which you will adjust all Fraps settings. Launch Fraps from your Start Menu after you have downloaded and installed it. Step 1) Install and launch the application. The Fraps Screen Recorder is quite easy to use, and you start and stop recording with just a simple click of a button. What you should be worried about are the rates in games using complex 3D environments, and this is what Fraps works best with.Īfter version 1.9d, Fraps became a shareware product which hasn't been updated since 2013.Part 1: How to Record Your Screen using Fraps Screen Recorder Typically this will involve games that have static backgrounds and move sprites around (such as War and Real-time Strategy games). Games that do not use buffering are ones that do not write large amounts of data to the screen.
As an entire screenful of data is transferred from the buffer, the Flip function waits for the vertical retrace of your monitor before writing the new data to the screen.įraps will not work with games that do not use buffering (and the Flip function).
The game calls the Flip function when it is using double buffering and needs to switch between the two surfaces.
Fraps measures the framerate by monitoring calls to the Flip procedure in DirectDraw. The name itself is derived from the term Frames Per Second (FPS) which is what the program displays in the corner of the game's screen. Fraps was designed to monitor framerates in DirectX and OpenGL games.
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