PlayClaw :: Overlays, Game Recording & Streaming Reviews

Bought this software and had a lot of options and things I could change for recording games. Was overwhealmed! Great Software! Then I tried to stream something which was not possible - but this was my mistake. So I contacted the Support. They helped me very quickly! So amazing! Everyone who wanna record or stream games should use PlayClaw. Has everthing you need and is so easy to use!

I received this because I own PlayClaw 5. It's my favorite recording and streaming software. The level of customization with your streams and recordings rivals OBS. Impact on performance is minimal, one of the lowest I've seen. The ability to have more than 2 audio channels is beyond convenient. You can increase the volume of the audio channels without having to change your system settings, something most other softwares lack. Recording and Streaming codec setup is extremely simple and user friendly. The only issues are the $30 price tag and the gap of time between updates. I believe this could either be sold at $15 or $20 instead. I highly recommend and love PlayClaw. I don't think you'd regret it.

Playclaw 6 is a screen recorder with streaming, so I say yes, good program, not easy to use as I wanted it to be, but it works, recorded some gameplays using the program and they all look really good, it have check boxes to "see mouse cursor", "turn up and down volumes" and change if you want to record the whole screen or just one aplication, I recommend "desktop mode" that one is working very well for me, I recommend Playclaw6. +one button to record, you can change to any other button you like more +no time limits, with playclaw6 you can record more than 5 minutes +no renaming, just record push the record button again and there is your video 10/10

The support system is great. But, the software not compatible with my laptop. I get much help but unfortunately still didn't work. I enjoying just use MJPEG and can't use intel quick sync. Sorry but this is my objective review.

I have not tried streaming with this but for everything else the program works great when you know how to use it. You can even vTube with it. The only problem I hope one day gets fixed is recording over 20 minutes your gameplay "sound" goes out. If you are a commentator you can hear yourself just fine, it's the game audio that just cuts out and even the dev doesn't know why or how to fix it! (lol)

The developer is really active on the forums, and really seems happy to fix any issues. In game overlays work really well, like really well. Had a few games where the overlay for Xsplit gamecaster would not work, tested playclaw 6's overlays and they work. It has all the basics you need for streaming (with mroe stuff coming), with features the others dont have (working overlays).

A profesionnal recording/streaming tool with great support. The new system info overlay is much more complete than the previous version, and help to pinpoint problems such as overheat, pagefile or bandwidth trouble. Helps me alot to pinpoint problems on betagames such as Escape From Tarkov. Much recommended for beginner and pro streamers/Youtubers

I've used this day in and day out for years (steam hours don't reflect usage) -- I use it to display general system stats as a small desktop overlay, I am not a streamer or anything, I am a big fan of it and would recommend it to anyone looking for a realtime desktop overlay. When I am in a pinch for desktop space I use it to overlay my tv shows as a semi transparent window so I can be productive at the same time. I've only ever had one thing I didn't like about the product, I reached out to the developer, they fixed it within a week. I am a strong proponent of this app, and I'd recommend it to anybody who can find a use for it.

depends on what you need it for, i bought it to have a ingame plugin for TS 3 and for that its good when it is working, most of the time there is an issue with the add in version for TS 3. so for that reason i gave up on using ist for the TS 3 plugin and have now only a clock overlay ingame and for that i dont need to pay 30.-.

Looking for something like OBS Studio but with overlays. First impressions were good, until I actually tried recording. - Performance footprint is much, much higher, KF2 easily maintains 120 FPS with OBS Studio while recording at 120 fps, but Playclaw 6 introduces a noticeable performance hit, 99th percentile FPS dropped to 110-115, with severe frametime spikes (6 whole frames, as reported by Playclaw 6 itself, that's a 50 millisecond hang - very bad even if you're targeting 60 fps) - Audio is 44.1khz only, no 48khz option, not even a hidden one - Very limited NVENC settings; can't even set keyframe interval to anything less than 1 second. This means very poor performance in video editing software, unless you want to reencode the entire recording (which I don't) - Seems to crash itself and games randomly On the flip side, here are the good things you can have with Playclaw 6 that OBS doesn't provide (or provides, but with severe side effects): + Automatically switches between display capture and game capture for you + Arbitrary overlays with webpages, windows from other displays (or the same display if your game is borderless), performance counters, recording status, etc. Recording status is especially useful, no need to alt-tab and verify it's actually recording. + Selective recording: choose which of your overlays appear on your recording and which overlays appear just for you + "Lossless" PCM audio (if you can overlook the fact it's being resampled from 48 khz to 44.1) I have mixed feelings. With all the aforementioned issues, it's very hard to recommend this over OBS, unless you value convenience over quality and performance, and don't have a second display.