Fraps worth £25?

Nevakonaza · 25 Dec 2012 at 17:39

Been thinking of recording my game play,uploading to you tube and stuff...also to help games devs in reporting hackers etc with video proof (mainly WarZ).

Do you guys think fraps is worth the £25 though?
seems kind of expensive!

ive tried Xfire which is suppose to do the same thing for free but im not having much luck with it and keeps causing Warz not to respond.

wazza300 · 25 Dec 2012 at 17:47

no its not worth it,

wkingsnorth · 25 Dec 2012 at 17:49

I'm pretty sure there's a rule against saying that somewhere wazza

wazza300 · 25 Dec 2012 at 17:51

there probably is sorry but they should make it £5 cos thats all its worth

setter · 25 Dec 2012 at 17:56

Not worth it, particularly as you can get afterburner for free. And it has a lot more features such as gpu overclocking and monitoring.

hyperst · 25 Dec 2012 at 18:02

Afterburner is free and much better overall, less of a hog as well on your system.

Nevakonaza · 25 Dec 2012 at 19:55

Thanks for replying guys.

arknor · 25 Dec 2012 at 20:00

Certainly not worth it when there are free alternatives that are just as good if not better.

Terrier_Jimlad · 25 Dec 2012 at 20:29

I find DXtory is a lot better than FRAPS, especially for BF3 and decent resource heavy games

MrMoonX · 25 Dec 2012 at 20:42

you want to help the Devs of WarZ, errrrr why?

Nevakonaza · 25 Dec 2012 at 20:44

MrMoonX said:
you want to help the Devs of WarZ, errrrr why?

Because,after all the crap that's been going on with them lately,I believe they will step up their game.

I do enjoy WarZ,But the hackers are a major problem at the moment.

Rroff · 25 Dec 2012 at 20:51

It used to be worth it, but these days not so much - tho I'd probably rate it over the alternatives if your capturing gameplay playback i.e. match demos, etc. - I find MSI Afterburner works better for realtime gameplay capture with less of an impact on performance while your actually playing.

arknor · 25 Dec 2012 at 21:03

because fraps are living in the past and theres no compression at all so when your recording your hardrive gets raped with a tens of GB file thats likely to cause more of an impacr on your game than using a bit of cpu power for compression like the modern alterantives do

KelDG · 25 Dec 2012 at 21:27

The best thing about fraps is the clean footage you get, like Arknor says there is no compression, this is great if you have the power and want raw footage to work with, you really cannot beat raw footage for editing.

The down side is you need one hell of a lot of processing power and you will have to use another program to compress the footage to an appropriate size for wherever you are showing it.

So it depends on what you want really. I would say fraps is worth it if you want silky smooth artifact free raw footage that you can edit and compress down to perfection (you can use whatever heavy codec you like at that point).

It is not worth it if you only want to slap a couple of videos on youtube for a laugh or have some evidence against hackers.

shankly1985 · 25 Dec 2012 at 22:14

Dxtory is the best paid for software out there.
Record Multi Audio channels Game/skype/Mic all into Separate channels if you set it up correct.
Can add and change the video codec/compress the footage also. Multi options on screen shots take them every 1sec if you wanted to

One Down side witch Fraps has over Dxtory you can record the desktop.

Msi Afterburner is superb also but lacks features like loads audio channels at once, it mixes the audio in one stream.
So if thats not an issue then Afterburner will work great but if you want to spend money on Software then Go Dxtroy.

wazza300 · 25 Dec 2012 at 22:23

fraps does chew up gigabytes but its fine aslong as you encode it/video edit it down,you can get 4-6gb down to 300-400mb with a good editing/compression program

Rroff · 25 Dec 2012 at 22:36

Fraps does use compression just a basic RLE type encoding which gives you ~25% smaller filesizes tho you can force fraps to do completely lossless capture to.

There are several other reasons why Fraps is superior to the others if your capturing for later editing even if you force lossless capture in other programs but if your capturing while playing it is outdated these days as I mentioned.

MrAnthony · 25 Dec 2012 at 22:46

shankly1985 said:
Dxtory is the best paid for software out there.
Record Multi Audio channels Game/skype/Mic all into Separate channels if you set it up correct.
Can add and change the video codec/compress the footage also. Multi options on screen shots take them every 1sec if you wanted to .

This.

I particularly like the multichannel audio recording, makes editing so much easier particularly when fades needed to be added and such.

arknor · 26 Dec 2012 at 09:28

wazza300 said:
fraps does chew up gigabytes but its fine aslong as you encode it/video edit it down,you can get 4-6gb down to 300-400mb with a good editing/compression program

with me unless I'm recording straight to an SSD I get stuttering, even if its a hdd that is completely separate from my os , games etc and on a different controller to my main HDD.

So for me fraps sucks ass unless you want to record hundreds of gbs to an ssd all the time

Sighn · 27 Dec 2012 at 01:53

0 issues with FRAPS and records every type of game I try with solid frame rates (60fps) but certainly not worth £25.

I use MSI Afterburner although I don't get as high quality recordings at any compression ratio mostly due to moire.