Fraps® is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as: Benchmarking Software, Screen Capture Software, Realtime Video Capture Software.
OsGear is Fraps alternative, a very fast Game Recording Software and Twitch Streaming Software. It records game play to movie with high quality, small file size and minimal lag. OsGear game recording performance and quality are superior comparing with Fraps software.
If you used Fraps software to record game play to movie, OsGear should be a good Fraps alternative software for you. For recording video game, OsGear is actually much better and faster software than Fraps. OsGear can do a lot of things that Fraps software cannot. Below table outlines some key features comparison between OsGear and Fraps.
| Features | OsGear | Fraps |
| Video Recording Technologies |
OsGear video recording technologies is far better than Fraps softare. OsGear implements a very sophisticated movie capture and compress engine for video game recording. With this engine, OsGear is able to record video game to movie with little system performance impact, and recorded movie is highly compressed with HD quality, and it is ready to upload to Youtube. |
Fraps software uses a simple lossless Codec that not only produces huge size movie file, but also significantly affects system performance. The lossless movie is unusable because of its huge file size; users have to use movie editor software to compress movie further. Fraps software movie recording technology is obsolete with current software and hardware technologies. |
| Audio Recording Technologies |
OsGear audio recording technologies is far better than Fraps. OsGear compresses audio data while recording audio source. OsGear supports two audio recording Codec: MP3 or Windows Media Audio Codec, depending on which movie file format is being used. Audio data is compressed with high bitrate so that the original audio quality is well preserved. |
Fraps software does not compress audio data while recording audio source. This results larger movie file size. |
| Video Encoding Technologies |
OsGear supports more variety video Codecs than Fraps. OsGear supports follwoing video encoding Codecs: MPEG-4 Ver 2 Codec, Motion JPEG Codec, Windows Media Video 9 and Huffyuv Lossless Codec. |
Fraps software supports only "Fraps" proprietary Codec. |
| Movie Format |
OsGear supports more variety movie file formats than Fraps. OsGear supports three movie recording file format: AVI1, AVI2 (OpenDML) and WMV. |
Fraps only supports AVI movie format. |
| Overlays |
OsGear supports overlay function that is not available in Fraps. OsGear supports face cam overlay function. User can add face cam or webcam overlay on top of movie video, where user can capture their facial motion. This feature is unique and is not available in other recording software. |
Fraps software does not support this feature. |
| Video Game Broadcasting Technologies | OsGear supports video game streaming and broadcasting function, which is not available in Fraps. | Fraps does not support this feature. |
| AMD Mantle API | OsGear supports AMD Mantle API based video games, and is full compatible with AMD Mantle API. | Fraps does not support AMD Mantle API based video games. |
| Measure Game Frame Rate | OsGear supports measuring video game frame rate and displaying it on the screen as overlay. OsGear supports to display frame rate at predefined 9 locations, or user can choose to display it at anywhere on the screen. | Fraps only supports to display frame rate on pre-defined 5 locations. |
Here are some comments from OsGear users:
Fraps is a god awful program. Get OsGear. It's so fantastic. It works infinitely better than Fraps ever could. I used fraps for yeeeeears until I found OsGear and dropped it immediately. I've recorded quite a lot already and it looks great. Oh and Osgear is also WAY less resource intensive.
OsGear Better than Fraps! Best Game Recorder! No lag for me in BLR.
Hey guys! I wanted to email you guys and tell you that I love your software. It performs much better than FRAPS and many of the other recording programs on the market at the moment.
I used some programs like Fraps, msi ab, bandicam, dxtory, action, osgear and what I saw. The fastest one is OsGear, in HD quality I couldn't even felt that I'm recording, it's really amazing.
OsGear use less HDD space than any other software!! I record 5 minute Sniper elite 3 and OsGear use only 264MB of space!! With Fraps you can record only 3-4 seconds with that size.
I use a mix of OsGear and Fraps. OsGear is unquestionably better than Fraps since it's much less intensive, makes far smaller files and has those small extra details.