Fraps is one of the best tools for creating screenshots and recording game video sequences - from 1 to 120 fps at resolutions up to 2560x1600, both for DirectX and OpenGL users. The application is also often used to measure the performance of games on created hardware platforms, by displaying the number of frames per second. The program monitors the frame rate between two points in time, records statistics on disk for further analysis.

The trial version of the program offers the possibility of recording video from games with a length of only 30 seconds, in addition to taking regular, static screenshots.