Part of the fun of playing a video game on a PC is sharing in-game photos with friends. Until FRAPS came along, the process was quite complicated. With FRAPS, capturing a photo while playing a game is as easy as a keystroke. FRAPS isn’t new, it’s been around for a few years but you may not have heard of it. Here are some shots from Far Cry, an older game but still one of the favorites around this office:

Download FRAPS here:  FRAPS  and install it. Directions are easy to follow, just make sure you start FRAPS before you start the game. You can choose to have the frame rate shown on your game screen, the original purpose of FRAPS, and then choose to record stills or videos. We’ve found FRAPS to be foolproof, simple and a great tool to test out your computer and/or new video card.

TIP: FRAPS saves stills as BMP files, rather large file size. If you’re going to post or share images, open each one up in Irfanview and change them over to JPGs. File size in the JPG format, because it is a compression or ‘lossy’ system, is much smaller.

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