game freezes? i suppose you could try to see if fraps has a witcher 3 compatibility update or ask on cd projekt red forums

edit - http://www.gog.com/forum/the_witcher_3_wild_hunt/streamingvideo_capture_applications_xsplit_obs_sweetfx_etc_currently_not_working_on_some_syste

that's a sticky and seems relevant :-)

The game won't freeze for me but it will get a lag spike once i hit print screen. Someone in somethread suggested that CDPR might implement a screenshot feature and maybe thats bugged. Anyways I just put the screenshot key of Fraps onto another key and have no problems with that.

Concerning Fraps updates: Fraps seems to be dead, there are many games which have problems with Fraps and Beepa never supported Win8 (you cannot record your desktop anymore). No updates since two and a half years and a list of well documented bugs exists...Yep pretty dead....

I also use Fraps and I have no problems. Works perfect for me.

Thanks all for the responses. Yeah I looked for updates when I first encountered the problem but could find nothing so maybe time to buy new software???

It was weird because I have used it in so many games including recent releases and up till 1.07 I had no issues with Witcher 3.

Can anyone recommend a similar program, sorry I am not very familiar with this stuff. Will be logging in soon and will change the key from Screen Shot to the default F12 if it's not used in game already and see if it stops the issue.

Thanks daaceking have posted questions on the provided thread.

Thanks Kuyaho, I am going to stick with FRAPS as the freezes seem to now be intermittent. Also waiting on a response from the forum topic daaceking provided as it may just be a problem with certain game files. I also have GeForce Experience so wlil have a look at that as well

Just an update, FRAPS seems to hate in Witcher 3 if you try and take 2 pics quickly. I rarely have the problem with one shot but 2 nearly always crashes the game????

Here is an update about the development of fraps. I've contacted the support. This is the answer:

"Thanks for your message and kind words. An updated version of Fraps including Windows 10 & DirectX 12 support is currently in development. Unfortunately I can't give you a release date but we hope to make it available as soon as possible. I apologise for the inconvenience in the meantime.

Please be aware that the current Fraps 3.5.99 release should still work ok in Windows 10 with games that are supported. This includes games using DirectX 11 (or earlier) and OpenGL."


As I said I have no problems with fraps in witcher 3.

Thanks good to know they are working on it at least. It's weird, I take one shot and sometimes you don't even see any screen freeze or anything. Next time it will freeze the screen for a couple of seconds. Take two in succession completely freeezes. Haven't had a esponse from the other thread unfortunately. Wonder what else could be causing it, had no problems with any other games such as AC4, 5 and DAI!!!

Well, I googled a bit and there are several people with the same issue, but they all use different screen capture software: Steam, Windows Printscreen and so on. Maybe it's not really a fraps issue?! It may depend on your settings or other software. Try to close all programs while running the game. Anti-Virus-Software, E-Mail-Client and you should close all other screen capturing software like RIVA Tuner if you have it running.

And in the fraps-settings try another image format. BMP or PNG or TGA, whatever. You can choose it there. Maybe it helps.

I don't know what else you can do. If it will still not run in fraps I guess you have tot try another software for witcher 3 screen capturing. ;-)