Rare Fraps Update Adds Support for Large AVI Movie Files, Changes System Requirements

I can kind of gather what Frap is but what is it used for exactly? what would i use it for?

@ZTimpson, You can use Fraps for bench marking a game and or recording your game play

Sorry, but I switched to Dxtory and havent looked back. Fraps is garbage for recording. Dxtory essentially uses your disks as a RAID. It kill the performance slowdowns.

@CRay, Oh Thanks man

@MayhemMatthew, Your post is confusing, Yous said Fraps is garbarge, then started talking about Dxtory and said it kills performance also?

Mayhem,

Color me dubious. That sounds like the sort of benefit that can only possibly work if you have multiple hard drives to begin with. If you do, then that'd be reasonably awesome -- but there's no magic way to create dual file containers and then simultaneously write to a mechanical drive with higher performance.

I *do* have multiple hard drives, so I'm downloading Dxtory to see how it works. ;)

Hrm. Interesting program. I'll have to fire up something fairly taxing to check the difference in video record capability.

"As long as you own a CPU with SSE2 (Pentium 4 and above) and a Windows OS that isn't older than XP, you're good to go"

Don't you mean "Isn't YOUNGER than windows xp"? ;)

Well oops, I'ma disphit. Never mind that.

Lol FRAPS is a good general bench marking tool for frame rate testing and recording now it would show your video frame rates in something like a HD video so you could see what your stats are etc.

went to afterburner and never looked back

Brilliant Freebie app... everyone who games should have on their desktop.

how about they'd implement GPU real time encoding to their video capturing based on CUDA or OpenCL?

that would be a great leap forward..

Took way too long to support larger file sizes. Moved to dxtory a while ago and never looked back. Screen resolutions and framerates went up while Fraps stood still. No one wanted to piece together 40 files after they finished recording then encode it all after.

Too little, too late I'm afraid.

Yeah Atticus14 I always run afterburner as well but I have never used it for what FRAPS does I use it to control the fans on my GPU more than anything.

you should try it if you havent, fraps may have improved by now, but afterburner performed so much better at the time i switched, my FPS barely took a hit and the quality was nice and settings were really flexible.

well if your recording while gaming, you may have a conflict of interest with your gpu processing power.

Sabarip,

You're a first-time poster and you copied Matthew's phrasing right down to "and never looked back." Obvious troll is obvious.

From playing with Dxstory I'd say its aspirations are marred by poor translation and unclear settings. The additional functionality isn't well-integrated; it's not very clear what certain settings do or why programs are included. That doesn't make it bad, but it's obviously young software.

Fraps does less, but does it very well.

i don't record GPU intensive games