v1.6.3

Changed

• Increase compatibility with games using AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3
• Updated the Platform Toolset to v143 (Visual Studio 2022)
• Updated the .net version to 4.7.2

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that affected overlay compatibility with a number of games

v1.6.2

Added

• Option to set working directory when launching app from within OCAT

Changed

• Updated Windows SDK and Vulkan SDK
• Updated GPUDetect

Fixed

• Fixed several bugs that affected overlay compatibility with a number of games

v1.6.1

Added

• Support for RDNA and RDNA2 GPUs
  • Updated AGS to v6.0
• Resolution information gets also retrieved in window mode now

Fixed

• Fixed several bugs

v1.6.0

Added

• Option to disable the overlay while taking a capture
  • Reduces the overhead of the overlay to get more accurate capture results

Fixed

• Fixed some compatibility issues

v1.5.1

Fixed

• DX overlay compatibility issues

v1.5.0

Added

• Lag indicator overlay
  • Mutually exclusive to rest of overlay
  • Changes color on lag indicator hotkey signal
• Estimated driver lag metric in performance summary and verbose log files
• Resolution information in performance summary and verbose log files
• Audible indicator toggle
• Option to require ALT + hotkey combination instead of single hotkey only

Changed

• UI has now a latency tab with the lag indicator hotkeys and the FCAT-style per-frame coloured bar visibility hotkey

Fixed

• Fixed some hotkey issues causing it to not work correctly with a bunch of games
• Vulkan overlay compatibility with other Vulkan layers
• Proper usage of user blacklist

v1.4.0

Notes

• New version numbering scheme: major.minor.build (used to be major.minor.0.build)
  • That pesky zero broke things so we nuked it from orbit

Added

• Audible indicators for starting and stopping recording
  • Helps when the overlay isn't compatible or available
• Overlay now prints the graphics API being used
• Rolling plot of frame times added to overlay
• 95th and 99.9th percentile frame times in the performance summary
• FCAT-style per-frame coloured bar

Changed

• Hotkey hooking method changed to Windows' global hooking

Fixed

• Windows 7 compatibility
• Destination folder for captures is properly remembered between launches
• Properly deactivate the Vulkan overlay layer on OCAT crash

v1.3.0

Notes

• Please make sure to uninstall any previous release before installing 1.3.0
  • There is a known issue that prevents the installer from succeeding that will be fixed in a future release!

Added

• Reworked UI

  • Changed to make it much more intuitive to use
    • New Overlay, Capture, Launch App and Visualize tabs
    • Overlay tab controls overlay configuration
    • Capture tab controls capture settings
    • Launch App tab controls overlay injection settions for a single application
    • Visualize tab launches the visualizer!
    • Read OCAT usage for more detailed information

• User-supplied blacklist

  • OCAT maintains its own internal blacklist, but also lets you provide your own
    • That ensures OCAT doesn't remove your own blacklist settings when OCAT is updated
    • See Blacklist for more detailed information

• Launching Steam apps via Steam AppId

  • Allows OCAT to work with many more Steam games and lets the explicit hook work in more cases
  • Read Launch App for more detailed information

Changed

• System specifications added to the first line of the verbose log

Fixed

• Lots of game and application compatibility bugs!
  • See GitHub issues and the new Steam AppId support for more details

v1.2.0

OCAT 1.2, featuring new visualisation tools, VR HMD support, and system configuration detection.

Please read the Changelog and GPUOpen post for more details.

1.1.0

Added

• Brand new UI!
• New combined summary data
• Toggle support for the overlay
  • Hotkey is P

Changed

• Documentation now in Sphinx
  • http://ocat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• PresentMon now sourced as a git subtree
• Removed the VS2015 build
• Overlay and PresentMon functionality separated for reliability
• Updated to use Vulkan SDK 1.0.54

Fixed

• Recordings now stop after a detected timeout
• Recording should still work even if the overlay doesn’t
  • Fixes Battlefield 1 and Borderlands 2 among others