Nvidia Shadowplay Use
I hope this has helped some of you understand how shadowplay works a little.
Nvidia shadowplay use. If you have a pc with modern nvidia graphics hardware there s a good chance you have access to this feature. If it is you can use shadowplay. Use nvidia shadowplay to record your games nvidia offers its users a built in game recording application called shadowplay. Nvidia s shadowplay now known as nvidia share offers easy gameplay recording live streaming and even an fps counter overlay.
Having to register to use the geforce experience is an unnecessary annoyance but unavoidable i m afraid. If you use an nvidia graphics card model gtx 650 and newer and use the nvidia geforce experience you can use nvidia shadowplay. You can use shadowplay to record a game any app or the desktop. To easily use shadowplay you should enable the shortcut for it.
Besides automatically recording gameplay shadowplay also has a few other functions like allowing you to live stream or displaying an fps counter in your games. Scroll to the in game overlay card and turn the switch on. As nvidia share is still commonly referred to as shadowplay i ll use the old term. Nvidia s geforce shadowplay makes it super easy to record game play on your desktop.
A number of you have watched my old tutorial video regarding shadowplay. While shadowplay is primarily used for capturing game play it is also possible to use it to record things on your desktop. It works as game recording software to manually record gameplay videos for as long as you want all at up to 8k hdr at 30 frames per second or up to 4k hdr at 60 frames per second. Click the cogwheel button.
Nvidia s shadowplay is solid software for recording games and live streaming. Just hit a hotkey to save the last 30 seconds of gameplay to your hard drive or share to youtube or facebook. Shadowplay s dvr style instant replay mode already recorded it. It can automatically record gameplay in the background just on the playstation 4 and xbox one or only record gameplay when you tell it to.
Plus it grabs those key moments that might have been overlooked between each recording. Just hit a hotkey to save the last 30 seconds of gameplay to your hard drive or share to youtube or facebook. However that video has now become outdated since nvidia released a new update that. For the best performance you want to use a nvidia capture method nvfbc or nvifr with the nvenc encoder cough shadowplay cough you can use a graphics api for frame capture and encode with nvenc this is what obs does or capture with nvfbc nvifr and encode using the cpu although this kinda defeats the purpose.
It allows you to record up to 30 minutes of gameplay at up to 1440p resolution and 60 fps for your recording although the quality limitations may vary depending on the streaming service you use.