Fraps Tutorial and Tips

In depth overview of Fraps and its capabilities. Learn what each function does and learn different ways to improve your performance when recording.

Always visit the Support page before asking Customer Support as 90% of your questions can be answered by reading the FAQ.

[Lardzor]

First, I LIKE THIS VIDEO.
Second, I'm not going to read all the comments that were already posted (there's a lot), so maybe I'm stepping on toes or re-stating the already stated.

This video is informative, professional, well spoken and well illustrated. The narrator sounds young, but this is first rate. My only criticism is that it could have been more comprehensive. He could have mentioned that lowering FPS, resolution, and recording to a Ram-disk could all help improve the output FPS.

[kevinthomsons]

Finally, GDFS videos are here!! Wait is over. Nice video. 5 stars from me.

[GearDownFS]

Thanks! Took a while to talk about everything Fraps had to offer but I was able to do it. :)

Erik

[poonujk]

Wow you did Fraps a great service with this video, I didnt know that I could only record 30 secs on the free ver. so I was kind of going crazy when most of my videos....were rather small....

I also didnt know that the red fps tells you that your recording, this vid helped ALOT! thanks for the vid

[anonInDE]

When I first saw this video on my subscriptions, I thought that there isn't gonna be anything new to me...
But after watching I learned a few new stuff!
like that No Sync thingy!
Thank!:D

[GearDownFS]

Thanks for watching! :)

Thanks for the tip, as well.

[GearDownFS]

I'm glad it was able to help you! :)

[niceone]

Hi, I was wondering why fraps was stopping in a 10 min recording. Thanks for having this tutorial.

[FMMProductions]

Also, if you do decide to record with Fraps, like GearDown mentions i highly recommend recording the videos to an unused secondary Harddrive or even to an external Harddrive as the file sizes are huge.

I have a 2TB external HDD and one of my hour long recordings managed to reach more than 100GB of data (it was split into multiple parts).

[nitestrike]

thanks alot for the clarification. i will certainly try it and let you know how it worked out

[GearDownFS]

Yes it does. The clip you recorded will be automatically saved in a Fraps folder in your Videos or Documents folder.

[TheOnlyAJD]

Well if you go to the Fraps website it gives you a download tab, which is the fraps trail, and then the buy/purchase tab, which unlocks the full version of fraps. The 30 second trial is so that you can test out their software to see if it works for you

[starwars]

@ Cowpwns so u just have to pay for the full version once? I just want the camera that records in game footage, so do u have to play monthly for that?

[MiningCazzy]

You obviously know FRAPS very well, thanks for uploading. +1Like

[GearDownFS]

You got it! Glad you liked the video. :)

[Drozal]

Thanks, excellent video

but I still have a question : Can I remove the data that shows up on the top of the screen while I record ? M not talking about the two numbers that you remove with F12, but about those that shows up only when you record, FPS and ms and other, all written in white

[AJZulu]

Thank you for the LowDown. Knew most of the basics already, but just wanted to see what you can give. My problem is usually with the resources at my disposal. 4Gig ram with a core2 duo...not enough. Need an upgrade!!!

[GearDownFS]

Fraps only records on the outgoing channel, that means it will record the sounds that come out of your speakers. Unfortunatly it won't record ingoing audio e.g. your microphone.

NBG

[PilotguyHC]

Thanks! I am looking forward to getting fraps so I can record my landings in flight sim!

[dandonicus]

Where did you get that background? I love it!