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Fraps
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Fraps is a third party application that can be used to take screenshots, record movies, and perform benchmarking of games using DirectX or OpenGL.
Fraps has customizable controls, so that they do not conflict with the keys used by the game.
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Screenshots
Even though most current games offer a build in screenshot functionality, it may not function in every part of the game. An example is Battlefield 2142, where the score screen after each round can not be captured by the ingame screenshot mechanism. Using Fraps will allow you to capture this.
Benchmarking
Fraps allow you not only to see the current FPS, but also to record the min, max and average values over a selected period. The info will be saved to a file for later viewing.
Movies
Some games allow you to record demos with can be viewed by other players. But usually these demos are in a custom format and can only be viewed by running it through the game engine again, often requiring the exact same patch level of the game. With fraps you can record the whole thing in the standard AVI format. Note that these movies can become quite large, so Fraps recommend that you re-encode them by using virtualdub which can reduce the filesize. Fraps is a resource intensive program; while recording videos during online play, the player will notice a drop in frames per second caused by the Fraps recording system.
Free versus Registred version
Fraps is available for free at http://www.fraps.com/, but if you purchase a license you will get these additional benefits:
- Unlimited length of recorded movies.
- Full size movie recording with no watermarks
- The ability to save in JPG, PNG and TGA besides the BMP format of the free version.
The latest version of Fraps can be downloaded here: http://www.fraps.com/download.php
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