PlayClaw :: Overlays, Game Recording & Streaming

Released: Nov 20, 2017
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Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 16:51 GMT

Updates & announcements

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28 Dec 2021Developer post
Alder Lake support in Sysinfo overlay + fixes
Hello everybody! We wish you a merry Christmas and happy New Year! :) Here is a new update #5410 Added Intel Alder Lake CPUs support and motherboards with Z690 chipset Fixed Forza Horizon 5 compatibility Fixed Detroil: Become Human compatibility Better Vulkan-powered games compat
Hello everybody!
We wish you a merry Christmas and happy New Year! :)
Here is a new update #5410

Added Intel Alder Lake CPUs support and motherboards with Z690 chipset
Fixed Forza Horizon 5 compatibility
Fixed Detroil: Become Human compatibility
Better Vulkan-powered games compatibility
A number of minor changes and fixed (too long to read ;) )
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24 Oct 2021Developer post
Update notes for build 5400
This build has a number of minor game compatibility fixes, updated sysinfo hardware module and minor improvements.
13 Mar 2021Developer post
Update notes for build #5305
Changes in this new version: Better compatibility with GTA V mod FiveM Fixed serious Vulkan API bug which can produce crashes on a game start up Updated hardware code to fix problems getting sensors from integrated GPU
Changes in this new version:

Better compatibility with GTA V mod FiveM
Fixed serious Vulkan API bug which can produce crashes on a game start up
Updated hardware code to fix problems getting sensors from integrated GPU
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09 Mar 2021Developer post
Fixed and new hardware support
Hello everybody! We have updated our hardware code and FPS Monitor now supports new NVIDIA RTX 3060! Changelist: -Support for new cards NVIDIA RTX 3060, AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6900 series -Improved monitoring and fixed some sensors on various hardware (CPU, GPU, MB) -Overlay v
Hello everybody!
We have updated our hardware code and FPS Monitor now supports new NVIDIA RTX 3060!
Changelist:

-Support for new cards NVIDIA RTX 3060, AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6900 series
-Improved monitoring and fixed some sensors on various hardware (CPU, GPU, MB)
-Overlay visibility is saved on a scene change or software shutdown, so if you disabled an overlay and closed the program, it will be invisible on the next start
-Added temperature sensors switch Fahrenheit - Celsius (in Sysinfo extension settings)
-PlayClaw will not show an error message when you start its second instance, now it just activates previously started instance
-A number of Invisible but very important fixes :)
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27 Nov 2020Developer post
New Ryzen CPUs support and fixes #5280
Hello everybody! Hardware access module is updated and now our system information overlay can get some Ryzen 5000 sensors ;) Other changes: Added support for fractional min/max values in sysinfo graphs and bars Added support for fractional values in alerts settings Fixed Rainbow
Hello everybody!
Hardware access module is updated and now our system information overlay can get some Ryzen 5000 sensors ;)
Other changes:

Added support for fractional min/max values in sysinfo graphs and bars
Added support for fractional values in alerts settings
Fixed Rainbow 6 crash when Vulkan API is used
Fixed Mount & Blade || - Bannerlord detection
Fixed Armored Warfare detection
Do you play R6? We have a good news for you. Unfortunately, R6 devs are blocking 3rd party Vulkan layers (we use our own layer to draw overlays in Vulkan-powered games). But there is a workaround to make our layer "eligible" :)
Open software installation folder and subfolder Tools.
Then open playclawvk64.json in any text editor, find the "name" parameter and change its default value from "VK_LAYER_playclaw" to "VK_LAYER_RENDERDOC_Capture", save the file, run the game.
What we have done? We have changed our layer name to white-listed layer name of RenderDoc software. This software is used by game developers and probably you will not have it and no conflict is expected.
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30 Sep 2020Developer post
Web browser overlay hot-fix
This build #5272 has a fix for Web browser overlay which enables video rendering, for example from twitch and youtube web sites.
26 Sep 2020Developer post
New update #5271
Hello everybody! This new version has support for new Nvidia video cards 30xx (for system information overlay). We also fixed bugs with injecting into UWP games and vulkan-powered games. Web browser overlay was also updated to the latest Chromium engine version (this added severa
30 Jun 2019Developer post
New update 5090
Hello! Here is new version with updated Teamspeak 3 plugin (API 23) required for new TS3 client version. Also minor improvements in OpenGL games compatibility are available. While our plugins are not approved in myteamspeak portal, here is how to set them manually
25 Apr 2019Developer post
Nice minor update
Here is our new release #5075. Changes list: ⚡ Better compatibility with DX10/11/12 games on some systems. ⚡ Desktop widget now has an Update Rate option like overlays. Previous versions updated it 10 times per second by default. ⚡ Fixed crash in an overlay effects settings in so
09 Apr 2019Developer post
Improvements in the new version
Hello boys and girls! Here is new release #5070. Desktop widget now has less options for background configuring and, at the same time, it is more powerful Added simple macros in Sysinfo overlay (and Text overlays) (manual is coming soon) Added back color setting in Sysinfo bar ov
Hello boys and girls! Here is new release #5070.

Desktop widget now has less options for background configuring and, at the same time, it is more powerful
Added simple macros in Sysinfo overlay (and Text overlays) (manual is coming soon)
Added back color setting in Sysinfo bar overlay
Fixed bug not saving custom CSS in Browser overlay when CSS text size is too big
Added wildcard in the blacklist
Added ability to set pre-recording file buffer location
Fixed compatibility with Sandboxie-powered processes
Fixed Teamspeak 3 overlay bug not rendering events after client restart and wrong events recognition (you must to update teamspeak 3 plugin for this new version!)
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27 Jan 2019Developer post
Maintenance release #5020
Hello everyone! This new update will give you new features in Sysinfo charts overlay and several fixes. Changes list Sysinfo overlay additions: added alerts, fill charts option (instead of drawing only lines), lines anti-aliasing option Fixed compatibility with some latest Vulkan
Hello everyone!
This new update will give you new features in Sysinfo charts overlay and several fixes.
Changes list

Sysinfo overlay additions: added alerts, fill charts option (instead of drawing only lines), lines anti-aliasing option
Fixed compatibility with some latest Vulkan-powered games: Strange Brigade, Quake 2 VK
Forza Horizon 4 is now in black list and you can run it with the program without crash, we hope :)
Fixed bug rendering overlay properties window
Added ability to get AMD GPU sensors values from drivers instead of low level access
Fixed bug not auto-scaling overlays if the program is started in minimized mode
If you like to use some "non-standard" codecs like MagicYUV or Lagarith, then we have a good news for you.
We've found a 3rd party plugin developed for PlayClaw 6 https://github.com/ignus2/playclaw6-plugin-encoder-vfw which can use built-in Video for Windows codecs.
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14 Jan 2019Developer post
New features in new year
Hello everybody! We hope you're fine and ready to get new PlayClaw features! This build #5000 has several changes and tunes in overlays and stability and two major additions: New Teamspeak 3 overlays We have splitted old overlay into two new ones: voice chat and text chat to make
01 Nov 2018Developer post
Windows docking in editor and external plugins
New #4870 build is ready with two main changes: editor now has a docking feature (check highlight video) and software supports external plugins (encoders, overlays and extensions) via our open plugins API. First plugin is the x264 encoder, currently it can be installed manually.
08 Oct 2018Developer post
In-game overlays effects
New release #4850 is ready and it has one new feature - overlay effects are now applied to in-game overlays too. So you can use, for example, color key to remove unwanted background color from some web page (chat?), if you're not familiar with CSS. Other changes: Fixed possible c
New release #4850 is ready and it has one new feature - overlay effects are now applied to in-game overlays too. So you can use, for example, color key to remove unwanted background color from some web page (chat?), if you're not familiar with CSS.
Other changes:

Fixed possible crash of applications in Windows 7 on PlayClaw shutdown
Fixed compatibility with Prime World
Fixed possible wrong overlays rendering order
Fixed crash on startup if your CPU has more than 20 threads
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28 Sep 2018Developer post
New release and Sysinfo overlay tutorial
A new version #4820 is ready to download. Fixed crash during second pre-recording buffer flush when MJPEG codec is used Fixed bug not starting translation because of empty translation key (but key is good) Fixed compatibility with Ring of Elysium Reduced CPU usage of hardware sen
A new version #4820 is ready to download.

Fixed crash during second pre-recording buffer flush when MJPEG codec is used
Fixed bug not starting translation because of empty translation key (but key is good)
Fixed compatibility with Ring of Elysium
Reduced CPU usage of hardware sensors measurement module
Fixed bug full processing of processes that do not contain graphics modules DirectX,OpenGL,...
Added new options in Sysinfo graph overlay
Fixed wrong AMD CPUs temperatures in Sysinfo
Fixed bug not saving of some Sysinfo graph and bars settings
Better statistics calculation for 0.1/1% Low sensor
Temporary added console output in statistics overlay, firstly, for error messages
Added ability to show hours in statistics overlay if recording or streaming duration is more than 60 minutes
Added lines separators and dummy sensors in Sysinfo overlay for better formatting
Check out this tutorial how to set up System information overlay in PlayClaw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq9Qn-iYDpM
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14 Sep 2018Developer post
We don't like lags! Do you?
We think you don't like too. That is why we worked hard this summer with a new PlayClaw version. Now it is ready and we hope you will be satisfied ;) Changes list in build 4800: Capturing and compression code was tuned to avoid frames drops when a game uses full power of GPU Bett
We think you don't like too. That is why we worked hard this summer with a new PlayClaw version.
Now it is ready and we hope you will be satisfied ;)
Changes list in build 4800:

Capturing and compression code was tuned to avoid frames drops when a game uses full power of GPU
Better peak system load processing to avoid unwanted frames drops
Fixed bug capturing black screenshots
Added process/date options for screenshots path
Added automatic backup feature after starting new version
Added new Teamspeak 3 options: show speakers and show messages
Added simple interface mode (it is enabled by default on very first software start)
Sysinfo overlays are now loading in delayed mode - they will show "wait" message and will not block software loading during hardware sensors initializing
Overlays will not be removed from a game if PlayClaw is in GAME capture mode and game is minimized
Added video tutorials (check Help menu)
Old Sysinfo overlay was replaced with two new ones: simple and sufficient for most gamers and complex experimental overlay which has everything and a bit more
Added multiselection feature in overlays editor for group moving of overlays
Program user interface is changed to give handy and efficient way to set up scenes
Plugins API is almost ready for release
We have lots of plans for future updates and we will try to inform you about these plans and, may be, you'll be even able to vote what feature to add next ;)
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20 May 2018Developer post
Cropping feature and FTL Mixer streaming support
Here are the changes in this build #4600: Added FTL streaming protocol support (for Mixer streaming service) Added Crop/Expand output overlay effect Added frame cropping in Output settings. This will crop the final frame right before sending it to an encoder. Fixed bug saving cus
Here are the changes in this build #4600:

Added FTL streaming protocol support (for Mixer streaming service)
Added Crop/Expand output overlay effect
Added frame cropping in Output settings. This will crop the final frame right before sending it to an encoder.
Fixed bug saving custom RTMP settings
Fixed big FPS drop in some DirectX 9 games like GTA:SA (when used 30-bits color)
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30 Apr 2018Developer post
Vulkan support is available!
We're glad to say that a new PlayClaw build supports Vulkan graphics! Vulkan is used in DooM, Dota 2, Wolfenstein II The New Colossus and some other games. Vulkan is very cool thing and we hope more games will use this technology.
13 Apr 2018Developer post
Great new feature is coming...
But now here are a few minor updates in #4520 build ;) Added screenshots format selection (PNG, JPG, BMP) Fixed OpenH264 crash when frames are dropped Fixed Hitman 2016 benchmark compatibility Fixed problem with taking screenshots of some systems Added support for CPUs with more
But now here are a few minor updates in #4520 build ;)

Added screenshots format selection (PNG, JPG, BMP)
Fixed OpenH264 crash when frames are dropped
Fixed Hitman 2016 benchmark compatibility
Fixed problem with taking screenshots of some systems
Added support for CPUs with more than 32 threads (sysinfo)
Extended DIMM temperature sensors to 6 units (sysinfo)
Fixed wrong values of CPU Fan speed sensor on some systems (sysinfo)
Added Brazilian localization
And short video "How to enable Discord overlay in PlayClaw"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY2c1G_gTnU
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27 Mar 2018Developer post
Hotfix #4495
Added threads count option in OpenH264 encoder Small performance tuning in Web Browser overlay Fixed possible crash in AMD H264 encoder Fixed wrong dropping frames in OpenH264 encoder Fixed wrong DIMM temperature sensors values in Sysinfo overlay Added Thai localization
Added threads count option in OpenH264 encoder
Small performance tuning in Web Browser overlay
Fixed possible crash in AMD H264 encoder
Fixed wrong dropping frames in OpenH264 encoder
Fixed wrong DIMM temperature sensors values in Sysinfo overlay
Added Thai localization
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