Fraps conflicts with steam overlay

[PanOski]

When fraps is enabled in the background, the steam overlay does not work (I have it turned on in the steam and game settings) other overlays, e.g. discord, also do not work. Fraps reads FPS in game but doesn't display them in settings, I can't use other programs that show FPS because fraps connects to stream deck and shows it. Additionally, when I start a game, I get this error "Fraps has been known to crash D3D11. Please use Microsoft Expression Encoder instead for capturing.". Is there a way to keep these overlays from colliding with each other?

[Haruspex]

Someone is still using Fraps?

Why?

There are much better screen recording utilities out there, including built right in to your GPU. If it's for the FPS counter, there are better and less crashy/conflicting solutions for that as well. Steam has it's own FPS counter. For the Elgato Stream Deck, I'm pretty sure there are official plugins to show FPS, as well as other hardware stats like CPU and memory usage.

[PanOski]

Originally posted by Harusp3x:

Someone is still using Fraps?

Why?

There are much better screen recording utilities out there, including built right in to your GPU. If it's for the FPS counter, there are better and less crashy/conflicting solutions for that as well. Steam has it's own FPS counter. For the Elgato Stream Deck, I'm pretty sure there are official plugins to show FPS, as well as other hardware stats like CPU and memory usage.

I only use it to make the stream deck show fps. I haven't found any other solutions so far. If you know any plugin for these fps on streamdeck, I would be grateful if you send it to me.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by PanOski:

I only use it to make the stream deck show fps. I haven't found any other solutions so far. If you know any plugin for these fps on streamdeck, I would be grateful if you send it to me.

I don't have a Streamdeck, so I'm working kind of blind here, but I did find plenty of other people having the same problem. Any time you try and launch a modern game, Fraps complains.

I'm guessing you're using the HWInfo plugin, which can pull the FPS info from Fraps. Apparently, it can also pull FPS info from Rivatuner[www.guru3d.com], but the option won't show up while Fraps is installed.

I can't provide exact instructions, but try removing Fraps, install Rivatuner, and see if FPS from Rivatuner shows up in the sensors.

[PanOski]

Originally posted by Harusp3x:

I don't have a Streamdeck, so I'm working kind of blind here, but I did find plenty of other people having the same problem. Any time you try and launch a modern game, Fraps complains.

I'm guessing you're using the HWInfo plugin, which can pull the FPS info from Fraps. Apparently, it can also pull FPS info from Rivatuner[www.guru3d.com], but the option won't show up while Fraps is installed.

I can't provide exact instructions, but try removing Fraps, install Rivatuner, and see if FPS from Rivatuner shows up in the sensors.

Thanks a lot, it actually works when I uninstalled Fraps and set up RTSS correctly.