Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. Fraps 3.0.1 is arriving containing its previous three major task performances, benchmarking, screen capturing and realtime video capturing. See main features below:

* Screen Capturing - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot.
* Realtime Video Capturing - Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560×1600 on dual-core CPUs (1152×864 single-core) at up to 100 frames per second!

What's more, Fraps 3.0.1 also changes:
* Added minimize to systray option for Windows 7 users
* Fixed video capture frame rate defaulting to 3D fps when Fraps loads.

Download here: Fraps 3.0.1 from Brothersoft!

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form, Fraps performs perfectly in benchmarking, screen capturing, real-time video capturing and so on. Now Fraps updates to 2.9.9 from 2.9.8 with the following bugs fixed:

Fixed missing audio in Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas
Fixed benchmarks not being written to benchmark folder
Fixed loading crash when attempting to start Fraps
Fixed stalling/stuttering after first 4 gig AVI segment
Fixed mouse cursor image/transparency corruption
Fixed mouse cursor offset in some applications
Fixed crash when recording above 1920×1200 for some users
Fixed crash after stopping video capture in Windows 2000
Fixed crash in some DirectX10 applications
Fixed random windows crashes with fraps.dll
Fixed missing systray icon if explorer restarts
Fixed frapsvid.dll and frapsv64.dll crashes when importing/playing video
Fixed Run Fraps when Windows starts option
Fixed Starcraft stalling during video capture
Fixed limited CPU affinity of main Fraps process
Fixed yellow corruption displayed in Plants VS Zombies
Fixed capture speed of many older DDRAW games

And the fixed Fraps 2.9.9 could be of free trial on Brothersoft.com.

The following article about Create Video Card Profiles To Save Power And Reduce Noise is from our content partner Ghacks.
The following article is a guide to create profiles for the installed video card to optimize it for different applications, namely working on the desktop and gaming. The problem with running a video card in Windows is that the video card will always use the same clock and fan speeds no matter if it is running in 2D desktop mode or 3D gaming mode. This can have the effect that the noise of the video card is a nuisance while working in 2D mode. In addition to that the video card will waste power because it uses the same clock speed that it uses in 3D mode although that speed is usually not needed in 2D mode.

The guide will walk you through creating a 2D and 3D video card profile that will automatically switch the fan speed and the clock speeds of the video card depending on the application that is running on the computer. This generally means low clock and fan speeds in 2D mode and normal (or even faster) clock and fan speeds in 3D mode.

The program that can do all of that is called RivaTuner. It is compatible with both ATI and NVIDIA video cards. The advantage of using RivaTuner is that the software can do everything that we need and works both in 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Please note that the clock and fan speeds are valid for the Geforce 8800 GTS video card that was used in the test and that the values for other video cards might differ. There is however a general pattern to it which will be explained. Read the rest of this entry »