One of my very good friend has problems in running Fraps and he asked me for help. I’ve always heard of Fraps but never knew what is it for. I went to www.fraps.com and found out that Fraps is used for real-time video capture, screen capture and benchmark your FPS. I believe Fraps is mostly being used by gamers who wants to record their game play.
Usually when a software can’t run, I’d advice to try uninstalling the software completely and then reinstall again. Uninstalling completely doesn’t mean just run the uninstall command from Add or Remove Programs. It means to delete every single registry entry and also files that was created by the software and not removed.
Here’s how to uninstall Fraps completely and reinstalling it to fix Fraps not opening problem.
Fraps is a shareware and the restriction is:
1. Fraps watermark along top of video
2. Maximum of 30 seconds per recording
3. Screenshots saved in bitmap (BMP) format
“IF” Fraps has 30 days trial limit, uninstalling completely would be resetting the time limit and that is “cracking“. Since Fraps doesn’t expire, that’s why I am writing this tutorial on how to get Fraps running again.
I used RegMon to see which registry keys is accessed, read and written by Fraps in real time. There is also a similar tool called FileMon but it is used to monitor files being read and written by Fraps. With this 2 free utilities combined, I can 100% know what to delete in order to completely remove Fraps from my friend’s system.
Follow the steps below to uninstall Fraps.
1. Download Regmon, extract and run Regmon.exe
2. Press CTRL+L and type fraps.exe at the Include box. Click Apply then OK button.
3. Run Fraps. You will notice that a lot of registry activities being captured.
4. Press CTRL+F and type CLSID. Try to locate the CLSID at HKCR\CLSID\{Random Data Here} path.
5. Double click the CLSID path at Regmon and your Registry will open. Right click the whole folder and select delete.
6. In Registry, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LICENSES and delete the LICENSES folder.
7. Go to Start -> Run, and type %temp% and hit OK button. Delete everything in there.
8. Go to Start -> Run, and type del %systemroot%\system32\frapsvid.dll and hit OK button.
9. Open My Computer and navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ and delete TEMP folder.
10. Uninstall Fraps from Add or Remove Programs.
11. If you’ve purchased a retail version, then install the retail version that you have instead of the demo. Otherwise, download the latest Fraps demo and install.
Fraps should be able to run as normal now.
Note: The above method is not about cracking or hacking Fraps. It’s just that Fraps uninstaller is not smart enough to remove everything that Fraps created. So when you have problems running Fraps, uninstalling and reinstalling Fraps is not enough to fix the problem. You need to manually trace and delete the registry and files created by Fraps.
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there is not a solution for remove time limit without paying if somebody now pliz tell about fraps 3.4.6 version if not tell about an other desktop video recorder.
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The Regmon link didnt work for me.
why the fraps dont install on win 7 64
It’s doesn’t work! The registry can not be deleted! I tried a million times, it just does not allow me to delete it!
IT DOESN’T WORK FOR ME
when i want to open the Fraps i get an error Send/Dont Send
thanks.. now i need to install windows again.
You did an amazing job writing this tutorial. Very easy to follow and guess what? It worked absolutely perfectly. Good job and kudos to you =)
I ran all the steps here, but when I installed and ran a “cracked” version of fraps, it didn’t work. I think the cracked one I was using was a dud…I dunno.
HOW DO YOU UNINSTALL IT ON VISTA HALP PLOXX!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111
@Hazdoc
How did you get this to work on Vista? I’m running Vista Ultimate x64 and cannot get this method to work.
I wasn’t even able to do a few of the steps. Could you please explain?
Wow, made my day. Thanks a ton! Only change was that regmon and the other filemon got squished together into a new program, but I figured out how to do it.
On VISTA. Shocker eh?
hey, i need help!
when i run fraps, i tap ctrl+f, it opens the little window, alright, and then i type CLSID, and the program says t“Cannot find the string `CLSID“
Help someone???
lucas.philip.93@gmail.com
works like a charm
thanks
its not working nothing comes when i run fraps in regmon i fraps just says Error!
erroe while unpacking program,LP5 please report to author
Hope this works for Vista. Got the the Process part so far:P I really need it to work . Great guide mate! Thank you!
Para vista há uma versão em:
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
Espero ter ajudado.
Eu estou a executar o programa para ver se consigo voltar a usar o fraps completo.
Eu instalei em primeiro o demo e abriu sempre.
Assim que instalei o completo só abriu à primeira vez, depois não abriu mais.
MAN! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Nice! Thnx for the tutorial, works fine! :]
Hey, realy Super Advise…
Now my program is working great…
Big THX,
joe
thank you, finaly a good guide
Hey, thanks for the guide. My retailed version is working now.
thankss for evert things
Thanks Bro u saved me from 1 hour of hard work !! Ur Great …
dude how to do that on vista. Heeeelp
thanks a ton for the guide, easy to follow and fixed my problem
1) Made an export of the full registry first.
2) Then deleted all the “HKCR\CLSID\{Random Data Here}” I could find.
3) Enjoyed
i too found a ton of clsid idk which one to delete help please? fonoodles@yahoo.com
Thanks Bro u saved me from 1 hour of hard work !! Ur Great !!
Problem is, I post from a large number of locations
Tried everything described here but didn’t seem to work. Then I took a look again at what regestykeys fraps Creates/Querys when installed and discovered it creates(if not there)/querys(if already there) a licenseentry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Licenses
deleting this did the trick for me. I am using WinXP x64 so on 32bit-os the key will probably named differently.
Does anyone maybe know where to find a nother program just like fraps, but thats free to download the full version? (and is easier to use). I would really appritiate any help (if you know anything please send me a link on renexy111@hotmail.com)
do you delete every thing in temp??
didnt work… what did i do wrong… i had a ton of HKCR/CLSID files… and i just picked one and deleted it…what else do i have to do.?
Very nice guide thanks a lot, just though I would mention a few things that slowed me down during following this.
First when doing step 4, make sure you have the right registry selected as there are some with a slightly different name which take you to the wrong place; unfortunately it automatically selected the wrong type after using CTRL+f to search.
Also step 8. “del %systemroot%\system32\frapsvid.dll” did not work for me, but I found it easy enough to go into C:\WINDOWS\system32 and find the frapsvid.dll in there to delete it.
Hope this is of help.
Thanks
thank you.
same as mike several came up so which should i delete the folder that contains all of them, the first one which?
hey mate, good tut, only problem is… it didnt work… did everything you said… same problem remains… any idea why?
super website. very thanks
This doesn’t work on Vista, unfortunately…
Yes I did and it came up with alot of HKCR\CLSID entries. I’m no registry wizard, so I don’t think I know which one to start with
Did you use Registry Monitor to sniff out the CLSID?
I am unsure of which file to delete, refering to “HKCR\CLSID\{Random Data Here} path”. I did the search and many came up. Do I navigate to the first one and go from there? Please help.
Thanks
Thanks Bro u saved me from 1 hour of hard work !! Ur Great !!
This doesn’t work on Vista, unfortunately…
It seems that Sysinternals released a software called “Process Monitor” that includes both RegMon and FileMon plus some enhances.
Anyway, great apps. I just removed a trojan and verified my system with this great hint. Thanks!
yes its good program i used.
great program ! thanks
I think first priority would be to make a backup of your registry before attempting to delete any registry entries.
Well, I have an older version and it does save screenshots in jpg, bmp, png, tga. I guess you have as you mentioned the trail version. Only negative thing about this program is that it makes huge avi files ( 3min ~ 600MB !! )