Buying FRAPS

Hi everyone!

I want to buy FRAPS but I find their official retail price a bit steep. Does anyone know where I can buy it at a discount price?

Thanx.

 

No there is no other way to buy it.

Its a one time purchase for life including all updates, if you use it for a long time the price is quite cheap.

 

Before you buy FRAPS, try MSI afterburner, it has a build-in recording feature, and it shows fps in game too, on top of everything it's FREE.

 

Afterburner is a good place to start since its free, it is lacking some features FRAPS has that may be important to a serious recording artist.

VirtualDub can capture the screen and is free.

Xfire I think has a free screen capture.

There are a few others out there as well, but all in all the best of the best has always been fraps due to its level of support, constant updates, and compatibility.

Camtasia is quite nice as well with a few qwerks as well as Captasia ans Screenpresso. I have tried them all

 

They've been offering updates for YEARS. It's a good buy and worth the price. Most developers try to hide the cost of their programs by forcing repurchase every year or two for updates.

 

I also prefer MSI Afterburner over FRAPS. Its worth at least trying out if you have not.

 

Thank you all.

I think I will buy FRAPS then. I need it in order to do a professional review for a notebook.

 

Purchased Fraps too to record some lets play stuff.
Works really well.

 

I purchased FRAPS several years ago and have deemed it well worth it. Lifetime updates as noted.

 

Ugh, I hate Fraps. Forcing your frame rate to the recording frame rate is a terrible idea.

 

It's not so much an idea as it is a mechanic.

It does not capture the screen via overlay it is pulling frames directly from the rendering engine. So it has to be in sync with the render engine.

This is why it cant record certain old games that do not use a compatible render engine. It's also why it wouldnt say record MLAA effects while you see them on screen since its post processing its applied to the image after the rendering.

So yes it has drawbacks but it also allows fraps to do things other capture programs can not do and makes it stand out from all the rest.

 

I don't ask much from a capture program...all I want it to do is capture videos and not have a huge impact on the performance of the game I'm playing. If the very act of recording turns my frame rates to crap, I'm not going to bother.

That's why I like WeGame...you can record at 20 fps and play at 50 if that's what your graphics card turns out, rather than be locked to 40, or god forbid, 20 if you drop to 39 for a moment.

 

True true, I am saying nothing against other programs they can have there advantages, I am just simply saying the same goes for FRAPS.

It seems to have the highest quality and most direct recording method of all the software I have tested, so if max quality is your goal and you have a strong computer its the defacto standard.

 

I've owned fraps since /searches email/ 2007 so over four years now. Free updates and it's simple to use interface trumps anything else I've used. I do like MSI Afterburner because you can monitor temps, etc. But the problem I have with it is that it causes some games to hang or crash. Took me a while, but realized that was my issue. Turned it off and no more crashes. Primarily DICE games (i.e. Battlefield). No such issues with FRAPS. Although wish it offered more stuff like temps, etc. But it does what it intends to do, measure fps, take video and screenshots.

 

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