ChromaCam Version History
New feature, bug fix & Enhancement
- Improved stability for custom backgrounds
- Performance improvements
New feature, bug fix & Enhancement
- Better handling for situations where user settings are corrupted
New feature, bug fix & Enhancement
- Updated to personify-api 3.1.9 (new AI Engine with major quality and performance improvements)
- Fixed crash issue involving NVIDIA Optimus technology
New feature, bug fix & Enhancement
- Better compatibility with non-streaming applications, and with Discord
- Improved stability on older PCs
- Fixed issues with PCs with multiple cameras
New feature, bug fix & Enhancement
- Change library structure for better stability
- Fix a crash issue with Skype
- Improve inter-operability and stability other platforms such as WebEx, Zoom, and ConX
- Smoother initialization when starting a video call
New feature, bug fix & Enhancement
- Improved custom background functionality
- Smoother start up of ChromaCam
- Improved blur, with performance optimizations
- General bug fixes and stability improvements
New feature, bug fix & Enhancement
- Performance improvements that provide lower CPU usage
- Default settings such as initial FPS and amount of blur are now set based on auto detection of CPU capability
New feature, bug fix & Enhancement
- Performance and stability improvements
- Add slider to allow control max frame rate (higher frame rate, smoother video)
- Inter-operability with WebEx Teams and MS Lync 2010
- Better handling of network timeout error when using Google and Twitch login
New feature & Enhancement
- Improve Twitch authentication by using refresh token and access token more precisely
- Inter-operability with vMix application
- Add version info in the application log in %LocalAppData%\personify\
Bug fix
- Fix issue that camera with special character ™ or ® failed to detect as real camera
Bug fix & Enhancement
- Fix the issue that disabled camera of D415 still appear in the camera selection list of ChromaCam
- Allow ChromaCam to work with the multi-2D camera with the same name including multi D415 RGB color or machine with front-face and rear camera having the same name
Bug fix & Enhancement
- Fix issue that requirement checker can not executed correctly for certain users having spacing or special character in Windows account username
- Fix issue that auto login wrongly when trying to open tour guide window before using ChromaCam
New feature, bug fix & Enhancement
- Use new requirement checker to detect AVX and OpenCL 1.2 support more precisely
- Do not run requirement checker 64 bit in Windows 32bit system
- Abort installation if registration ChromaCam as virtual camera failed
- Add slider to Settings tab to allow customize blur effect
- Fix issue that some cameras got stuck due to auto gain checking process
- Fix Back Light Correction not working correctly for some cameras
- Can not recognize a camera using default driver from Microsoft which displayed as "USB Video Device"
New feature, bug fix & Enhancement
- Using personify-apis 3.0.10 (new AI Engine with major quality and performance improvements)
- Add an instruction for user to check and enable OpenCL1.2 support if the system requirement doesn't meet yet [APPS-157].
- New code signing certificate for installers: security and safety is always ensure.
- For ChromaCam, installer will run requirement checker for both 32 bit and 64 bit [APPS-157].
- Solve crash issue when unplugged the c270 logitech camera, c922 logitech camera
- Persist windows state (remember last windows state) of ChromaCam Control Panel [APPS-94]
- Support new model of C922 (USB Vendor ID is 0X046D and the USB Product ID is 0X085C) (PR#2023).
- Support delay applying watermark at initial-time to avoid annoying glitch of watermark during initial phase (PR#2013).
- Add requirement checker for AVX and OpenCL1.2 (PR#2037)
- Re-sort cameras with whitelist blacklist greylist concept and hide all virtual camera from the list [APPS-129]
- Apply new way to speed up initial time (after install and first use) [APPS-129]
- Add publisher information to Personify product installer [APPS-126]
Bug fix
- Correct logic for previewing mode for free user to fix water issue displaying sometime using C922 camera [APPS-152]
- Fix bug/crash of ChromaCam when unplugged the RS camera (RGB mode) [APPS-111]
- Fix some compatibility issue in Microsoft Surface
- Fix crash issue when having no camera due to virtual camera [APPS-125]
- Fix crash issue when the machine having no camera (PR#2026)
- Fix issue that control panel still display when having no camera [APPS-117]
- Allow camera detection from no camera to having first camera [APPS-121]
- Fix crash during checking upgrade process (PR#2026)
- Bring back the camera enumeration for 2D camera just like ChromaCam 2.2.2.2 (PR#2037)
Notes: above list is the complete changelog comparing with ChromaCam 2.2.2.2 as previous major & auto-update enabled release.
- Move rear/side camera to bottom of camera list thus making sure it's not default camera [APPS-121]
- Allow camera detection from no camera to having first camera [APPS-121]
- Solve crash issue when unplugged the c270 logitech camera, c922 logitech camera
- Persist windows state (remember last windows state) of ChromaCam [APPS-94]
- Fix bug/crash of ChromaCam when unplugged the RS camera (RGB mode) [APPS-111]
- Using personify-apis 3.0.7 (new AI Engine with major quality and performance improvements)
- Fix some compatibility issue in Microsoft Surface
- Fix crash issue when having no camera due to virtual camera [APPS-125]
- Fix issue that control panel still display when having no camera [APPS-117]
- Apply new way to speed up initial time (after install and first use) [APPS-129]
- Move the virtual camera functionality to the client side [APPS-129]
- No virtual camera will be present.
- No camera won't show CC panel and won't crash.
- Add publisher information to Personify product installer [APPS-126]
- Using personify-apis 3.0.6 (new AI Engine with major quality and performance improvements)
- Fix requirement checker for AVX and OpenCL1.2 (#2037)
- Using personify-apis 3.0.0 (new AI engine)
- Support new model of C922 (USB Vendor ID is 0X046D and the USB Product ID is 0X085C) (#2023).
- Support delay applying watermark at initial-time to avoid annoying glitch of watermark during initial phase (#2013).
- Fix crash issue when the machine having no camera (#2026)
- Fix crash during checking upgrade process (#2026)
- Bring back the camera enumeration for 2D camera just like ChromaCam 2.2.2.2 (#2037)
- Add requirement checker for AVX and OpenCL1.2 (#2037)
- Re-sort cameras with whitelist blacklist greylist concept and hide all virtual camera from the list (#2014)
- Using personify-apis 2.9.x: the next, 2nd generation Personify AI Engine with significant quality and performance improvements.
- Using personify-apis 1.x: very first Personify AI engine that enabled background subtraction for regular webcams and cameras
- Come with complete feature set