3.0.1705.3128 - Release notes:

Please refer to the FAQ for general questions on usage:

Supported operating systems

Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10

For hardware and software requirements, see further details here:

https://www.xsplit.com/download

Internet connection

Requires Internet connectivity with HTTP / HTTPS port 80/443 open and RTMP port 1935 open

For live streaming on lowest settings, a minimum upload speed of 500 kbps is required

Known issues and limitations

For a list of bugs being worked on see “Known Issues” section. For other general known limitations see list here.

2.9.1701.1621 -> 3.0.1705.3128

Features and improvements

- XGC-4377 - Smashcast integration (remove Hitbox and Azubu)

- XGC-4312/XGC-3763 - Option to crop and flip camera

- XGC-4270 - Mixer FTL integration

- XGC-4286 - Added YouTube subscriber alert

- XGC-4251 - Better password handling for remembered user account

- XGC-4244/XGC-4182 - Add username display of authorized services and CustomRTMP

- XGC-4199 - Option to add URL widget

- XGC-4439 - Prerequisite installation process improvement - remove all optional prerequisites in installer

- XGC-4375 - Integrate RSSDK 2016 R3 (version 11)

- XGC-4346 - Enable drag and drop in and out of screenshots gallery

- XGC-4343 - Update browse dialog disk drive icon and benchmark results overlay color

- XGC-4320 - Improve title bar icon and back icon in browse file dialogs

- XGC-4295 - Do not disable "Remember me" when "Log me in automatically" is checked

- XGC-4293 - Add "Upload notice" for YouTube upload

- XGC-4290 - Add hint on alert edit message icon and change subscribers icon to a star icon

- XGC-4285 - Update YouTube pre-stream event dropdown colors and text labels

- XGC-4271 - Update Niconico icon and logo

- XGC-4229 - External Settings and Overlay: Update UI colors, styles, text and images

- XGC-4204 - Inform user when YouTube Live chat is disabled

- XGC-4200 - Update Tobii settings elements to standard styles

- XGC-4188 - Change broadcast titles textareas to textfields and add character counters

- XGC-4187 - Ignore front & end spaces in Game Name text input

- XGC-4179 - Use new stream only mechanism for console viewer (don’t use XSplit Stream Audio Renderer anymore)

- XGC-4100 - Use Game Name from video data as Game Check-in value

- XGC-4097 - Add IME feature to alert message and add close button to IME settings window

- XGC-4064 - Remove Never default option in Split files

- XGC-3628 - Dailymotion Chat

- XGC-2060 - Improve update mechanism to download and make updates ready in advance

Fixes

- XGC-4350 - Set console viewer exe name (XSplit.Gamecaster.Console.exe) different than main exe

- XGC-4438 - IME Language menu spawns behind the Broadcast Options dialog

- XGC-4435 - Smashcast chat window may display repeated messages

- XGC-4429 - Unable to show mapped drive in Chinese OS

- XGC-4428 - Application may not terminate on exit if an OAuth window was opened

- XGC-4412 - Black UI when running on Optimus dGPU in GTX 10 series GPU

- XGC-4402 - No notification for new Smashcast followers

- XGC-4378 - Drag handle disappears after dragging files outside the main window

- XGC-4374 - Notifications settings bar does not disappear when cursor is not hovering

- XGC-4373 - Application may freeze when sharing to Player.me fails

- XGC-4371 - "Twitch Chat" is displayed on the YouTube Live Chat widget

- XGC-4366 - Dragging a folder to another folder on VOD shows an incorrect error

- XGC-4358 - Able to share BMP files to Player.me when other social services are enabled

- XGC-4331 - Empty dropdown value displayed on the YouTube Live Event dropdown menu

- XGC-4310 - Image links are not displayed on the Smashcast Chat

- XGC-4309 - Links are displayed as HTML Tags on the YouTube Live Chat

- XGC-4308 - Emojis are displayed as plain text on the Hitbox, Twitch, YouTube, and Dailymotion

- XGC-4306 - Disk Write failure when recording above 4GB on FAT32 drives (should automatically split file instead)

- XGC-4305 - Possible OperationCanceledException from GoogleServicesAPI

- XGC-4289 - Filename displayed at the bottom of the Recordings Tab may exceed after rename

- XGC-4284 - Links are displayed with HTML tags on the Facebook Live Chat

- XGC-4275 - Screenshot preview on the overlay gallery shifts downward upon opening

- XGC-4272 - Facebook Live chat textbox remains enabled after stream ends

- XGC-4266 - Unable to restore default Benchmark hotkey value

- XGC-4257 - Camera can get hidden from overlay on load of game or console viewer

- XGC-4220 - Unable to activate the overlay after enabling/disabling Notification Widget custom message textbox

- XGC-4219 - File split default value is set to 0

- XGC-4216 - Camera gets clipped when opening console viewer if position on the right or bottom edge

- XGC-4215 - Game name dropdown on the Broadcast Options is misplaced

- XGC-4214 - Logo position is not saved on exit of game source or console viewer

- XGC-4210 - Method to get file thumbnail still called even if VOD manager is not on thumbnail view

- XGC-4206 - MS AAC (or AAC LC HQ) is not activated for Windows 10N even if patch is installed

- XGC-4203 - Successful post to social no longer shows the View Post link

- XGC-4197 - Disconnecting a mapped drive from the "Recordings" dialog doesn't revert to the Windows default folder for "Videos", but shows an exception error instead

- XGC-4195 - Temporary audio state is not reset when starting stream with game in focus (audio state is temporarily disabled when no game is active)

- XGC-4193 - System Warning on missing Media Feature Pack appears even when the patch is already installed for N editions of latest Windows 10

- XGC-4160 - Sending a direct or private message to twitter from our share dialogs shows an incorrect link

* Pending verification

Known Issues

Please reference Known Limitations section for critical or major issues that are currently out of our hands and/or directly related to 3rd party hardware, software or drivers.

Critical

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Major

- XGC-XXXX - Recording in 2.5 or 4K (3840x2160) may show micro stuttering

- XGC-3979 - Mouse/keyboard inputs are detected by the game while capturing UWP applications even if overlay is active

Normal

- XGC-4048(WF) - Unable to stream to a new event on YouTube Live while embed is allowed

        - This is for accounts which has “Embed Live Streams” (see account features) disabled, if this is the case don’t check “Allow Embed” option. YouTube API does not provide info about this user feature so this must be done manually.

- XGC-4071 - Facebook Live: Custom audience for the privacy on the overlay does not expand

- XGC-4011 - Twitch Chat : Moderators are displayed as normal viewers

- XGC-3957 - Overlay cursor does not update correctly when capturing some UWP application/game (Minecraft Windows 10 Beta , Hill Climb Racing)

- XGC-3854 - Noise suppression doesn't always work in "suppressing background noise", and can also result in sounding robotic

- XGC-3762 - Cursor movements are still captured by the game when overlay is active - Overwatch

- XGC-3625 - Application executes before the Intel RSSDK installation finishes on update

- XGC-3582 - Overlay is not centered in game - Spooky's House of Jump Scares (Steam)

- XGC-3578 - May not be able restore application after minimizing while in Tablet mode

- XGC-3533 - Unable to properly interact with overlay controls and elements when game is running on Admin Mode

- XGC-3349(WF) - Unable to use Yuan PD5A0 (camera is not available) on Windows 10 (Issue already reported to Yuan)

- XGC-3079 - Unable to properly control overlay cursor behavior in game - SkyForge

- XGC-2942(RJ) - In-Game keys still work when overlay is active - Terraria

- XGC-2769(RJ) - Overlay (without capture) can make some games stutter on SLI

- XGC-2561(WF) - Unable to control overlay when activated in game (MCEdit) because game doesn’t render/update its user interface

- XGC-2419(WF) - Animated GIF in overlay is not in sync with what is visible in streaming/recording

- CPPCORE-1184 - Game FPS drops by more than 50% when DX 12 game is added as source - Forza

- CPPCORE-1150 - Capturing with "Rise of the Tomb Raider" on DX12 results in DXGI error (AMD Crossfire issue - reported to AMD)

- CPPCORE-1098 - Intel Quick Sync bandwidth usage goes beyond set bitrate

- CPPCORE-968(WF) - Unable to use application when exe path contains semicolon

- XVE-342 - Short video could freeze Express Video Editor on add

- XVE-331 - Video editor can appear truncated in the upper left corner if VOD manager is closed before it opens

- XVE-330 - Express Video editor skips frames and may play incorrect frame timeline when adding multiple videos one after another finishes playing

Minor

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Trivial

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(WF) - Won’t Fix

(RJ) - Rejected

Known limitations:

• A bug in Nvidia’s driver (337.50 and 337.88) prevents XSplit Gamecaster’s camera and console mode functions from working on Laptops with some GTX 8XXM GPUs. Nvidia has released updates to its drivers to resolve this problem. Drivers from 340.52 and up resolves this issue.

• High memory usage will be observed when using NVENC (Nvidia encoder) which may cause crash on 32-bit machines or when memory usage already high before starting to stream/record. Nvidia GPU drivers from 368.69 and up resolves this issue.

• Quicksync encoding for long recordings/streams (4+ hours) can fail or restart on some Ivy bridge and Haswell systems (In version 2.7 , a working fix for Windows 8 and above has been applied, so this issue is now limited only to Windows 7)  

• Some Origin-enabled games (BattleField 3 and 4, Crysis 3, Titanfall) may crash or freeze. This is due to a conflict with the Origin Overlay. We are actively working with Origin to resolve this issue. A workaround for the moment is to disable Origin overlay by going to Origin client’s Application Settings -> Origin In Game -> Uncheck “Enable Origin In Game”

• XSplit Gamecaster may not be compatible with other similar applications that capture games running at the same time (i.e.: MSI Afterburner, Fraps)

• In DirectX 11 games (for example World of Warcraft and Assassin’s Creed 3), XSplit Gamecaster will not enter into game and cannot capture when Fraps is running. UPlay and Steam has the same problem, since Fraps prevents any other software from capturing.

• XSplit Gamecaster is incompatible with some games using GameGuard for anti-cheat protection, hereunder Hero of the Obelisk and RF online. We have tried to contact INCA Internet (developers of GameGuard) but have received no response on this issue yet. 

• XSplit Gamecaster may not be able to capture games where MSI Afterburner is loaded. To make it work do either of these: Run MSI Afterburner after XSplit Gamecaster, or set the "Application detection level" to “Low” in the RivaTuner properties.

• XSplit Gamecaster will run in low performance mode (legacy compatibility mode) on Windows 7/8/8.1 laptops using ATI Enduro switchable graphics (most modern laptops with AMD graphics card).
  
  We have to force this mode due to a bug in the AMD Enduro driver. (This issue has persisted since 2013 and can only be resolved by a driver update from AMD)
  NOTE: The bug is fixed in AMD Windows 10 drivers, we are still unsure if AMD will fix the bug for Win 7 / 8

• AMD Mantle Graphics API and Vulkan is not supported by GameSource

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