http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhCFMl738nI
Many games these days don't have a built in chat feature, so I use the Steam Overlay in my games
to communicate. This shows up fine in FRAPS, but today I made the switch to Action! and while I'm
quite impressed by its performance, this is a huge snag. The Steam overlay doesn't show up
in videos I record with it, so time spent chatting is invisible to the viewer.
Here is the second problem:
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5883/ggja.jpg
This is a screenshot snapped by Steam. Steam lets you take screenshots and then directly upload
them so all your friends can see. Action! takes screenshots, too, and those are fine, but as you can
see this potential upload has the Action! HUD in the top right, and as other forum threads suggest,
it's not only stuck in the on position and can't be disabled in-game, it was captured by the Steam
screenshot function.
I'm hoping there will be some looking into these issues so Action! becomes more compatible with
Steam. I upload screenshots all the time, a dozen a day probably, and having the Action! HUD in the
corner just kills them. I can disable it, but the HUD has its uses and I would rather keep it on.
The first issue is the most important, though. I recorded a 34 minute video only to realize at the end
that none of my communication with my partner was captured, so that was a pretty big bummer.
Anyway, great program, I trialed it in several games and got great performance and bought it shortly
thereafter, but I didn't predict this would be an issue.
