After any capturing session, you should use a conversion software for compressing the file. The bad part is that this uncompressed AVI file will use a huge space of your hard-drive. You won't get any framed clips and the sound will match the image perfectly. It will be saved in a pure AVI format without compression. The reason for this is because the application won't use any compression tool for capturing the video. All this while I was running a game at a resolution of 1280x1024.

The game will not slow down a moment (unless you have a really poor system), and the resulting video file has an astonishing quality. This represents the best part of this application. You won't feel anything wrong in the game while you make these screenshots. This can be done by using hotkeys which can be activated from the main interface. So I began to search for a software that doesn't have these problems.įraps manages all these problems by saving the captures directly into any folder, without any prompting message or any preview screen. That's because a lot of the latest games don't support the Alt+Tab command anymore. I was using SnagIt, which is a very good capture program, when you want to capture forms, windows, scrolling windows, web pages, but problems appear when you want to capture almost any game that uses DirectX. The main reason I searched for this software was the need of a very good capturing program, especially for games.

With the help of Direct X and OpenGL technology, this software can capture in realtime any video source from your desktop, can save screenshots in BMP, PNG, JPG and TGA formats and can be used also as a benchmarking software. One of these examples, that really surprised me was Fraps. That's maybe because I tend to notice only the bad things from a software or maybe because I know that there should be a better one undiscovered yet. Although I have access to all kinds of software, finding a proper one for my personal use becomes an annoying thing sometimes.

Fraps not recording video