Fraps is a benchmarking, screen capture and screen recording utility for Windows developed by Beepa. It can capture from software that uses DirectX and OpenGL, such as PC games. Fraps is proprietary and commercial software, but it is free to use for frame rate display and benchmarking, and video capture and screen capture .Because of the way it captures the screen contents, Fraps needs to run with administrative privileges. The frametimes benchmark feature (logging of individual frame render times) gained attention in 2013 on computer review sites in debate about micro stuttering in games. On Windows Vista and Windows 7 , the desktop can be captured if Windows Aero is enabled. Windows 8 game capture works, but not desktop capture as of version 3.5.99. Fraps records video at high resolution if the computer is sufficiently powerful. The maximum supported resolution is currently 7680×4800. Fraps uses a proprietary codec . Therefore, playing Fraps vid