rec.autos.simulators

> >No, it makes no difference to me or lots of others.  Nobody seems to have
> >worked out why it does work for some people. Weird.

> Surprised it doesn't work for you.. on the high gear it seems to work
> for most people. Same goes for the people on VROC who have f1 2001.
> Weird indeed. I guess you allready know this, but fraps increases the
> fps only in full-screen mode, in the same way the window-mode is much
> faster than full-screen mode without fraps.
> Also, it seems that for some people fraps 1.5 doesn't give an
> advantage - I even read some posts on High Gear of people who can't
> get f1 2001 working with 1.5 - but fraps 1.4 seems to work for
> everyone. 1.4 is not on www.fraps.com anymore, but you can easily find
> a link to 1.4 on the high gear EA forum.

> Andre

> >Iain

> >I trust my own eyes.. yesterday I started F1 2001 and after driving a
> >lap I was puzzled why it run so jerky - exit f1 2001, start fraps, run
> >f1 2001, and it was smooth as silk again.
> >A rough guess is an increase of 40% fps in full screen mode - without
> >fraps f1 2001 is hardly playable for me, it's more like a slideshow on
> >monaco, with fraps on it's perfect.

> >Andre

> Is this windowed or full screen? I ran it with fraps in full screen
> mode and my frame rate was crap. Run it in windowed mode and the frame
> rate is good - with or without fraps running.

> From their website:

> Another release! New for version 1.5:

> Windows XP support.
> DirectX 8 support (Both windowed and full screen applications).
> Min/Max framerates now recorded in manual benchmarking logs.
> Fraps now packaged in an installer (thanks to Nullsoft NSIS!)

> Ian P

> > Fraps does not work with Windowed games, according to the FAQ.

> > -Larry