General Questions

What do the options do?

Selecting "Start Fraps minimised" will hide the Fraps dialog screen when you launch the program. Fraps can still be accessed through the icon in the system tray.


Does Fraps have a performance impact on the game?

There is a small overhead associated with drawing the framerate on screen. This may vary depending on your system configuration, but should remain relatively minimal. The best way to measure it on your own system is to find a game that allows you to benchmark it and compare the results obtained with and without Fraps loaded.

When you are recording a movie with Fraps there will be a noticable impact on the game.  This is due to all the extra work involved in saving the screen data to disk.


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