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Nvidia's ShadowPlay - Now Available
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CharmingCharlie
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Just gave it a quick test (cheers to Sethos for the file) and it appears to do what it says on the "tin". Definitely nice to record footage at 60fps. Whilst I agree that fraps still has better quality the framerate hit is off putting with fraps.
Only problems I really have with shadowplay are lack of features. A framerate counter would be nice and the ability to take screenshots with shadowplay would be a boon too then I could retire fraps altogether.
Only problems I really have with shadowplay are lack of features. A framerate counter would be nice and the ability to take screenshots with shadowplay would be a boon too then I could retire fraps altogether.
I have 28.6GB free.
And no I am not living in the stone age, my hard drives are NTFS.
Will this replace MSI Afterburner for my recording purposes? I'll try it out, but I don't tend to record things unless I'm specifically trying to make a video of something.
You should definitely switch to MSI Afterburner from FRAPS. It takes screenshots, and records videos with minimal performance hit. And it's free.
You should definitely switch to MSI Afterburner from FRAPS. It takes screenshots, and records videos with minimal performance hit. And it's free.
20 mins as a restriction does seam short. Sure it's fine for multiplayer footage but I'd want something a bit longer to save me having to bounce in and out. Make sense on a console as you'd only be guaranteed a certain HDD size and this would be used for multiple types of storage but I've 2 spare sata slots that I could easier chuck a dedicate 2tb scratch disc purely for this alone. Still baby steps.
Just gave it a quick record in Resident Evil Revelations. Didn't drop below 60fps, although that game is not hard to run so can't really tell if it is having an effect on performance. Recording looks great, 60fps. Wish there was somewhere you can share videos at such fps. A 2min video was 456MB
You can manually record as much as you want. Shadow recording is where it stores the last 20mins of your gameplay. You can save that 20mins at any time you want. If you don't it will disappear.
You can manually record as much as you want. Shadow recording is where it stores the last 20mins of your gameplay. You can save that 20mins at any time you want. If you don't it will disappear.
TwistedMind
Neo Member
Seems you are on windows 7 , it is only 4 GB because OS limitation
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-shadowplay-beta-available-october-28
Seems people are misunderstanding this software.
There's two modes; Manual and Shadow.
Manual is like any other recording application. Hit a button and it'll record infinitely until you hit the button again.
Shadow constantly records your gameplay without your interaction, up to 20 minutes. If you hit the shadow key it'll save the last X-minutes ( Which you've specified ). If you don't hit any keys, it'll just constantly dump the cache with the recordings you aren't saving. It's exactly like the next-gen console DVR feature - Just better.
There's two modes; Manual and Shadow.
Manual is like any other recording application. Hit a button and it'll record infinitely until you hit the button again.
Shadow constantly records your gameplay without your interaction, up to 20 minutes. If you hit the shadow key it'll save the last X-minutes ( Which you've specified ). If you don't hit any keys, it'll just constantly dump the cache with the recordings you aren't saving. It's exactly like the next-gen console DVR feature - Just better.
I wasn't talking about FRAPS in particular, but yes, with better options such as Dxtory you really shouldn't use FRAPS anymore.
You must be referring to 41Mbps because 41Kbps would look horrible.
Yes it is, but if you're going to render a 50Mbps already compressed video to that, then the quality will obviously be much worse than if you render a lossless video to a 40Mbps video.
It's like taking a JPEG image and saving it again as a JPEG image.
At the expense of what? The performance impact is pretty low if you have a good CPU and a good hard drive with at least 100MB+ write speeds.
And you're certainly free to use what you want. Some people just prefer to work with the best source material so they're the ones that'll record lossless.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
It definitely does sound like a cool and relevant feature here.
Sounds like I will be using this a lot. I wonder if I can capture to steaming SW like OBS or xsplit?
Metal Gear?!
Member
What the shit is this NVIDIA, there's no such limitation...
Alright, good on you.
It's like how a PVR for tv works where you get the last hour or so when you switched to that channel so ShadowPlay is recording up to the last 20 mins of footage constantly. I'd love it to be a bit longer but there is the usual record function aswell.
Prophet Steve
Member
I've come across something like that before. It might not allow a program to write such a large file. I think I had the same with other recording software.
I'm on Windows 7 and I am looking at a 17GB single file (thanks Guild Wars 2!)
angular graphics
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Actually there is. Straight from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd757763(v=vs.85).aspx
Cannon Goose
Member
Does this capture stuff like sweetfx?
Terbinator
Member
Are you playing games from the disk you're dumping to?
RadioactiveLobster
Member
It would be lame if nvidia is gimping me because I have a 660ti; it cost me $300.
Do you really think I'm using FAT32 in this day and age?
Are you running Windows 7 (or earlier?)
They've said due to an OS limitation it can only make files up to 4 GB.
You screen shows that 10 minutes is hitting 3.8 GB, so it might not let you go beyond that
EDIT: Badly beaten, should refresh the page before posting
Prophet Steve
Member
Apparently a limit of the video container in Windows.
Nope.
Nvidia software, so yeah
KingofGourds
Member
Awww yeah. I'm gonna try this out right now.
Was recording Arkham Origins on best settings with Fraps, was fine but this should be wayyyy more convenient.
Was recording Arkham Origins on best settings with Fraps, was fine but this should be wayyyy more convenient.
That depends on a specific chip NVIDIA put in their Kepler cards, no less. It isn't just lockdown for the sake of lockdown (like people complained about with Shield, which also depends on this same chip).
Blue Ninja
Member
Works fine, but the overlay doesn't show up. At least, it doesn't in Dishonored.
angular graphics
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Valtýr;87672724 said:
All.
Ah so basically business as usual.That's the whole point of the "shadow" recording mode, yes.
It's like what the new consoles will do, but longer, at higher quality, before they are released, and for your existing games
Downloading now
Here's a quick quality test. I edited it and rendered it in Sony Vegas with some high-quality settings so the IQ impact should be minimal. However that's how it would look when a lot of people render it first I reckon.
Some night footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZNmp26KESo
Some night footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZNmp26KESo
Tried it with Guild Wars 2.
No noticeable performance impact, good IQ for background recording, tried it with 5 clips. Exactly what I wanted, pretty much.
I'd like for the icon to only fade in when you do something though.
No noticeable performance impact, good IQ for background recording, tried it with 5 clips. Exactly what I wanted, pretty much.
I'd like for the icon to only fade in when you do something though.
All. Though I noticed it doesn't work for borderless windowed mode.Valtýr;87672724 said:
Yeah, tried turning sweetfx on and off and it shows on the video.
This is really cool! Never taken any videos before
I'm also on a 660ti, and I'm playing GW2 at 2560x1440 at more or less the same frame rates I'm used to. I'm capturing to a separate SSD though.
Self_Destructive
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I noticed some juddering when watching the files with VLCplayer after recording them. It seems smoother in Windows Media player though. When running fraps on the video recording it constantly fluctuates between 62 and 63fps, could that have something to do with it?
Win8.1
2 Titans SLI
3930k
16gb ram
ect..
Win8.1
2 Titans SLI
3930k
16gb ram
ect..
Well that explains why Dark Souls didn't work.
Tried it with Borderlands 2. I noticed absolutely no performance change and I recorded my entire session. 30 minute session ended up being 12 gigs.
VLC player seems to completely crap out on me when trying to play the video file. WMP is better but still laggy. However when I import then into Adobe Premiere the video file plays fine.