D3DGear is an advanced Windows utility for DirectX and OpenGL technology. D3DGear provides following major features: measure 3D rendering framerate, capture 3D rendering screenshot, record 3D rendering to movie, analyze 3D rendering performance and integrate desktop systray into 3D rendering. D3DGear works with 3D games as well as 3D applications. To use D3DGear, simply launch D3DGear prior to start 3D game or 3D application.

What is D3DGear?

D3DGear is an advanced Windows ingame utility software for 3D games. With D3DGear, you can measure framerate (FPS) of 3D game, capture 3D game screenshot, record 3D game into a movie and analyze 3D game performance. You even can use D3DGear to access Windows desktop within game.

To use D3DGear, simply launch D3DGear prior to start 3D game, the framerate of 3D game will be automatically measured and displayed on screen; capturing screenshot, recording movie and analyze rendering performance will be as simple as pressing a hotkey.

D3DGear supports DirectX8 API, DirectX9 API and OpenGL API. D3DGear runs on Windows 2000, XP and VISTA.

Introducing Ingame Desktop
D3DGear 3.00 introduces a fantastic new feature: Ingame Desktop (i-Desktop). The Ingame Desktop feature allows gamers to directly access Windows desktop within game. With Ingame Desktop feature, you can Google, MSN, writing email, watch movie etc within your game.

With Ingame Desktop feature, you don't have to leave your game until it is done. With Ingame Desktop feature, you can forget about to use "Alt+Tab" to switch between game and desktop. With Ingame Desktop feature, the possibility is endless. The Ingame Desktop feature completely changes the way how game is played.

The Ingame Desktop feature comes with two flavors, one is Ingame Desktop Full Access, the other is Ingame Desktop Viewer Only. The Ingame Desktop Full Access flavor gives your complete access to the desktop; and you can see game running in background. The Ingame Desktop Viewer Only flavor let you to monitor Windows desktop application while playing game. Both flavors are avaliable when game is running in full screen mode, and they are enabled/disabled by defined hotkey, just like how other D3DGear features work. Try it now.

Release News:

Mar 26, 2008 Version 3.11

Fixed the issue where D3DGear did not work with CoD4 MP. The problem was caused by recent PunkBuster update.
Fixed the issue where, in Media Player Classic, FPS did not show at proper posisition.
Fixed the problem where FPS font size slide bar did not work properly in earlier version.
Mar 09, 2008 Version 3.10

Fixed the issue where D3DGear Ingame Desktop would cause Windows desktop background color inadvertently be changed to black.
Fixed the issue where screenshot and movie recording feature was not working properly after enabling Ingame Desktop.