Action! versions

Records desktop and gameplay or takes screenshots
4.3
Mar 19, 2020
Review
4.2
Mar 13, 2020
Review
4.1
Feb 6, 2020
Review
3.9
Jan 26, 2019
Review
3.8
Dec 13, 2018
Editorial review
rating
3.7
Nov 23, 2018
Review
3.3
Aug 23, 2018
Review
3.1
Apr 20, 2018
Review
3.0
Feb 23, 2018
Editorial review
rating
2.8
Oct 11, 2017
Editorial review
rating
2.7
Sep 8, 2017
Review
2.5
May 17, 2017
Editorial review
rating
2.4
Apr 21, 2017
Review
2.0
Nov 4, 2016
Review
Jun 2, 2016
Jan 28, 2016
Nov 13, 2015
Aug 6, 2015
1.6
Jul 13, 2012
1.4
Jun 1, 2012
Review
1.3
Jan 13, 2012
Editorial review
rating
1.2
Nov 27, 2011
Review
1.1
Nov 20, 2011
Review

What's new

v4.3 [Mar 19, 2020]
- HOTFIX: Fixed problems with GPUs not fully supporting DirectX 11.1 features.
- Fixed region recording using Intel GPUs.

v4.2 [Mar 13, 2020]
- Important fix for systems with multi GPU setups (Intel Nvidia).
- Fixed mouse cursor recording on high DPI displays.

v4.1 [Feb 6, 2020]
- NEW easy to use selected application window recording/streaming and recording/streaming of multiple desktops in a single video (link to video tutorial is available below).
- Added support for 8K MP4 video capture for newest Intel and Nvidia GPUs.
- Fixed system/driver crash after hardware PlayReady 3.0 DRM is enbaled with Action! running.
- Fixed 240fps recording in HDR mode.
- Fixed Vulkan HDR capturing in active screen mode.
- Stability improvements.

v3.9 [Jan 26, 2019]
- Improved compatibility with Intel DCH drivers (because of problems generated with these drivers we strongly recommend rolling back to non-DCH drivers).
- Fixed Focusrite Scarlette device recording.
- Improved microphone/system sound volume notification on HUD (more visible at low volumes).
- Improved hardware accelerated Motion JPEG decoding.
- Added Korean language support.

v3.8 [Dec 13, 2018]
- Added full support for recording/streaming Microsoft Store/UWP apps (please make sure to remove any excluded UWP apps from Action!'s exclude list).
- Fixed problems with recording 64-bit DirectX 9 applications.

v3.7 [Nov 23, 2018]
- Fixed compatibility with Activision products (COD WW2, Black Ops and other new titles).
- Stability improvements.

v2.8 [Oct 11, 2017]
- Important fix for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 desktop/screen recording.

v2.7 [Sep 8, 2017]
- Added HUD opacity setting (available for Windows 7/8/8.1/10 Desktop, D3D9, D3D10, D3D11, D3D12 and OpenGL).
- Added support for Hauppauge PVR devices.
- Improved not recording visible HUD in desktop mode for Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (visible on screen but not recorded).
- Improved 10bit-per-pixel desktop recording (automatic detection of 30bit color desktop for NVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro GPUs).
- Support/automatic detection for setups with both 10bit-per-pixel and 8bit-per-pixel monitors connected.
- Fixed sRGB video recording with multi-sampling enabled (D3D10/D3D11).
- Fixed all major problems with OpenGL recording on AMD GPUs.
- Fixed recording performance for some OpenGL games.
- Fixed crashing when recording old OpenGL games.
- Fixed support for recording sRGB OpenGL applications.
- Fixed out of memory crash when recording/streaming 32bit games and applications that use lots of memory.
- Improved recording performance of Direct3D 9 games/applications (up to 25% performance increase).
- Fixed problems with HUD hide/position change and screenshot hotkey detection.
- Fixed Farming Simulator 17 game recording.
- Overall performance improvements.

v2.5 [May 17, 2017]
Application stability improvements.

v1.3 [Jan 13, 2012]
- World of Warcraft recording with DirectX 11 fixed
- World of Tanks recording fixed
- Free disk space information added
- Recordings total size information added
- Recording in progress information added
- "Del" key added for deleting selected recordings
- Right mouse button menu added for recorded items
- Action! window restore improvements
- Action! startup time improvement with VMWare running.

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