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PlayClaw 5 - Game Recording and Streaming
The amazing PlayClaw video capture tool gives customers incredible power!PlayClaw has been designed to make full use of multi-core processors and hardware accelerated H.264 codecs, which ensures the outstanding quality of the output with a minimal impact on system performance.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“The marketplace for screen capture tools is starting to get quite crowded, but PlayClaw stands out as it strikes a great balance between ease of use and quality. The main competitors are Bandicam, Fraps, and Dxtory. PlayClaw beats Fraps as it is much less resources intensive,…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“I have been using this program for many years! And I am 100% satisfied with it even now! When you play your favorite video games and want to capture a good moment, then you need a simple program to capture video and then post it to YouTube! This program will give you high…”
— a player, Steam review · 826 hrs played“I have mixed feelings on this one. tl;dr I ended up buying Fraps to get my game captures. About me: I make a lot of fragshow/machinima movies and have about 10 years experience. This program didn't work out so well for that purpose. I also did some research on YouTube for…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedLatest official news
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Software fix for latest nvidia drivers
Build #3709 has fixed problem with starting nvencoder after installing the latest nvidia geforce drivers.
PlayClaw 6 is released
We're glad to inform you that we have just released this major update for v5 ːsteamhappyː If you already has v5 (steam license) then you'll be able to get v6 steam license from this bundle with great
PlayClaw 6 is released
We're glad to inform you that we have just released this major update for v5 ːsteamhappyː If you already has v5 (steam license) then you'll be able to get v6 steam license from this bundle with great
First PlayClaw 6 beta
We worked hard to prepare this major update. Or, may be, almost new software - PlayClaw 6. We've changed the core of our software a bit. Overlays are the very important thing, other features are just
First PlayClaw 6 beta
We worked hard to prepare this major update. Or, may be, almost new software - PlayClaw 6. We've changed the core of our software a bit. Overlays are the very important thing, other features are just
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Audio Production, Software Training, Utilities, Video Production |
| Player tags | Utilities · Video Production · Audio Production · Software Training · Software (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Steam Achievements |
| Languages | English, Russian, French, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese |
| Achievements | 10 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.playclaw.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 2-cores CPU with SSE support Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Intel/AMD/NVidia graphics card DirectX: Version 8.0 Additional Notes: Administrator rights to run software are mandatory.