Fraps of Bandicam

i would like to measure the framerate when i play games. i know both Fraps and Bandicam do this, but i would like to know which is the most lightweight one. i'm not interested in capturing screenshots or recording videos off the screen, just what the fps is. thanks

EDIT: sorry, i just realized that i had misspelled the title. it should have been "Fraps OR Bandicam ?"

 

why not use something like msi afterburner and use the on screen display for FPS and temps

 

Measuring FPS takes pretty much no resources. It's recording video, etc that makes a difference.

 

I also recommend msi afterburner

 

MSI afterburner can cause some games to hang or crash BFBC2 did for me quite frequently until I determined it was MSI Afterburner. Deus Ex also gave me some issues. Once I quit using MSI Afterburner all issues went away.

 

thanks you all. i already use TRiXX to overclock my Radeon 6630m and would rather not use MSI Afterburner, considering its issues with some games. it seems to me that Bandicam's installer is about 5MB whereas Frap's is about 2MB. am i correct in assuming that Fraps is a bit more lightweight then?
i think it's my OCD kicking in here! ;-)

 

To be honest, you'll be fine with any. 2MB vs 5MB is minor when you have 8GB RAM, lol. And MSI Afterburner is nice if you want to get more than just FPS, like CPU/GPU temps, etc. I just threw that precaution out there to consider if you ended up with some problems. Just turn off the monitoring and you'll be good to go.

 

the installer doesn't have anything to do with how much memory or CPU time an application will take when running.

I've had issues with fraps with certain games as well. I've never tried bandicam, but I suspect it could have issues as well in certain configurations. I don't know that the latest stable release of fraps is any more or less likely to have issues with any particular game compared to the latest stable version of MSI afterburner... but either one should be fine. I've used both.

None of the applications listed will have a significant impact on performance for monitoring. The performance demands of any 3d game are extremely large compared to the demand of the monitoring application. It's not worth trying to figure out which will have the least impact on performance, because on top of the fact that the performance impact will be negligible, the performance DIFFERENCE between these will be even more negligible. It would be nearly impossible to test, even side by side. In terms of framerate monitoring, they all use more or less the same method.

Also, if the game has a framerate monitor in game, you should just use that. Many games have that feature.

 

^ thanks for the tip. i wanted it for Battlefield 3. so i did a search, and apparently, it has an in-game console that can be brought up by pressing the key ~ while in the game. issuing the command "Render.DrawFps 1" (without quotation marks) turns the in-game FPS counter on.

 

Yes, if you wanted that we could have told you that too!

Many games have in-game FPS counters. It's nice that in BF3 they actually made it a large usable number in the corner, unobtrusive.

 

use any of them