I have been using PlayClaw 5 for years now and have been very fond of it. I found it was the perfect replacement for FRAPS which I had used previously. With Let's Play's and streaming becoming more mainstream the market for recording software has certainly gotten more competitive, especially so since NVIDA waded in a few years back with its own free version - Shadowplay. What this has meant for paid applictions like PlayClaw is that they have had to up their game and offer features these free versions don't have. I was lucky enough to get a free copy of Playclaw 6 (the latest version) from the developer and I am very thankful for this because even with Shadowplay on the market, PlayClaw has become my defacto recording software because it gives me visual up to date information such as the temperatures/memory usage of my CPU cores and GPU while gaming and recording without having to run other applications in the background. Playclaw 6 goes even further adding a host of new features and is by far more the most complete version. New features in Playclaw 6 now enable me to see if there are overheating issues, pagefile problems as well as bandwidth issues. The new versions GUI interface also looks much better than the previous version although it could still use a lot of work as it lags behind other applications such Action! visually. The application also comes with improved streaming integration for all types of streaming applications and lots of workable overlays. The developer, Eduard Kozadaev, is also an incredibly helpful chap and over the years has responded to many of my posts in the forums within minutes of posting them and has often implemented fixes and suggestions from myself. He also regularly updates the software with fixes and new features and this is the reason I keep coming back to his application. With Playclaw 6 he has introduced the best version of the software yet that is well worth picking up.

Reliable

None that I have encounterd yet, the application just works as expected.

PlayClaw 5; FRAPS; Action! - Gameplay Recording and Streaming; Shadowplay

YouTube and streaming enthusiasts.

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