In addition to ShadowPlay, this application offers NVIDIA graphics driver updates, one-click game settings optimization, and game streaming from your PC.Īfter installing, here’s how to set up your NVIDIA ShadowPlay Setup takes less than five minutes and most of the time the defaults are just fine.įirstly, you’d need to download and install the NVIDIA GeForce Experience application. The app will tell you if your system is up to the task or not and will lead you to the page in the picture above. How to Record OpenGL Games (and Your Entire Windows Desktop)īefore you can use ShadowPlay, you have to enable it within the GeForce Experience.How to Check if Your PC Supports ShadowPlay.How To Customize Your NVIDIA ShadowPlay.How to Record GamePlay With NVIDIA ShadowPlay.The options that are made available include adjusting the “shadow” recording from 1 – 20 minutes, the quality of the video (Low, Medium, and High), disabling audio, and, if you don’t like the GPU always recording, the ability to turn that off and stick to manual. That has its upsides and downsides while ShadowPlay is easy to use, it lacks the advanced encoder options that some might like to tweak. Unfortunately, but as expected, ShadowPlay requires recent GeForce cards to operate.Īs seen in the above shot, ShadowPlay integrates itself with GeForce Experience, and overall, the applet is stupid simple to use.

Quite an eye-catcher given Fraps’ $37 one-time fee, and $59/year for X-Split (which I’ve never used).

In addition, support is built right in, and the cost? $0. Like Fraps, ShadowPlay works with every game, and you also have the ability to record gameplay continually in case something cool happens and you’d like to save a video of it. While this is going to impact your FPS a wee bit, NVIDIA feels confident that the actual impact will be minimal, or even non-existent to the human eye (this of course would change if you’re using lower-end hardware). ShadowPlay is in effect a Fraps competitor, designed to capture your gameplay more efficiently thanks to offloading some of the work to the GPU. Where NVIDIA’s ShadowPlay is concerned, “forever” is definitely the right term, because when the company first announced it, GeForce fans all over wanted it – and wanted it right there and then. Other times, there’s no other word to use but “forever”. Sometimes, anticipated products seem to take too long to get here.

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