This application is very useful to perform performance tests in full screen applications such as video games or synthetic tests, the application is very simple to use and has 3 basic functionalities that are video recording, capture screens and benchmark. The video recordings are made in mp4 format and with codec h264 and without loss of video by compression since the video is saved without being compressed which affects the size of this and not its quality. By not having compression it is possible to perform live steaming without loss of quality in the video. The screenshot is very simple and needs hardly any explanation, by configuring a shortcut we can capture the screen inside a game or opengl application and it will be saved automatically in the FRAPS directory by default. As soon as the benchmark simply shows us the frames per second, also called FPS that produces the application that is being executed at this moment.

Fraps is an application to capture video that I use especially for gaming or benchmark test in my work since the application's ability to capture directx and openGL windows (also works with vulkan) is very accurate unlike other applications that you must configure and waste time, with fraps it works with hardly any configuration. You can also record the software and use the full screen on the screen that we indicate in the configuration, in addition we can apply a separation of the video file in parts whenever it reaches a size of 4 gb. Another important feature that can help the video to be lighter is not to allow audio recording by default. From the same window that we wish to record it is possible to start or stop the recording through a hotkey or shortcut previously assigned in the application, it is also possible to do this with the FPS counter that we can see live and that measures the performance of the application.

I like the OSD, feature, because let me measure the frames on-screen