Fraps - Record your gameplay

Introduction

Fraps is a video screen capture software available as trial version (for some options less), it is used to record some video game and is very popular among gamers.

Installation

• Download the software, then run the file from your desktop:
• A window titled "License Agreement" appears, click "I Agree"
• Choose the location to install the program on your hard disk by clicking "Browse ..." then after it is preferable to leave the default is to say C: \ Fraps.
• Finally click "Install" and wait until the installation ...
• Once the program installed, run Fraps from its icon on the desktop

Configuration

• Once you have started Fraps, you can define the settings of the video capture.
• Under the "FPS", set the time for video in seconds: limited to 30 secs with trial version.
• Then go to the "Movies" tab:
• In "Folder to save movies in" choose the location where the video captures will be saved.

• In "Video Captures Hotkey" choose which key you press to start the capture.
• The choice is whether it's "Half-size" or "Full-size (half-size to full size).
• For the "Sound Input" is still up to you to choose the quality of sound output.
• For the FPS value, it depends on your hardware, if it is a good PC you can choose between 25 and 60 FPS, if otherwise I suggest you leave the default is 30 FPS.
• Note: FPS means Frames Per Second: the number of frames per second for video.

• Now go in the "Screenshots"
• In the category of image formats, choose the format that suits you best: BMP, JPG, PNG, TGA.

Video capture

• Launch Fraps first.
• Start the game in which you want to record, and once the game started, you'll see a kind of stopwatch (yellow), top left of your screen.
• When the numbers are yellow, it means that the program is launched, so it is ready to make the capture.

• Tap on the F9 key (button starts the capture)!
• When the numbers turn red, it means that Fraps has started to record.
  • (Note that: Depending on your configuration you may experience a certain latency at the beginning of the recording process).

• To stop the capture, simply press F9 again.