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Nvidia's ShadowPlay - Now Available
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Divus
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This.
Anyone know yet? I mean it's the fusty thing I'm checking when I get home but I got to know!
alexandros
Banned
Yes, I've had that happen a couple of times. Disabling and reenabling Shadowplay fixes the problem for me.
maniac-kun
Member
After some research i found out that Lightworks is free. Its a tool for cutting used by Hollywood 
http://www.lwks.com
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http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=176
I had this a couple days ago when I launched a game through Steam's Big Picture Mode, went away after I started it again without BPM.
Schrade
Member
After some research i found out that Lightworks is free. Its a tool for cutting used by Hollywood
http://www.lwks.com
http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=176
Looking at the comparison chart.. it transcodes everything.
http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=184
I think Andy or one of the other Nvidia guys said they were addressing this in the latest update although it's not in the patch notes.
Would love confirmation on this, I'd really rather the videos be going straight to a storage drive than be churning through my SSD first.
For some odd reason it won't give me a link to the single post but it's post number 493 from NVGareth. https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/628073/geforce-experience/shadowplay-feedback-thread/33
In the meantime a quick work around is to move your global Temp folder to a storage drive. If you've still got it set up as default just change the location of your Users directory.
Thanks. Think I'll wait for the next patch to address that, but looking forward to using this when that happens.
Unknown Soldier
Member
I love how Nvidia's solution to the 3.8GB file limit is to create separate files. Instead of, you know, support for mkv, m2ts, ts, avi, or any other container format like everyone else on Earth.
Schrade
Member
"Bu-bu-bu-but it won't play easily in Windows Media Player...."
/strangle
Fuck that. Anyone doing this type of stuff should know better to use a real Video Player.
Has anyone noticed that Shadow Play causes a lot of micro stuttering after running for a few hours in shadow mode and huge stuttering when writing the shadow play recording to disk (bar the game not hitting disk I/O at that time)?
Well it is already doing something like 40-50Mbs avg with peaks up to 70Mbs on high settings, any higher seems unlikely from a hardware encoder (it might also be what is limiting the max res).
Hello guys, I had some thoughts a few weeks ago, and wrote an article in French about how Nvidia is making the PC gaming move along the next-gen consoles by its features. So first things first, I do like Nvidia a lot, so what I am going to say is purely subjective, and I am not affiliated to Nvidia or anything. Ah, and also, english is not my first language, so excuse my faults.
As I said, I feel like Nvidia is the one keeping PC gaming up to date in terms of features.
First, they openly attacked next-gen consoles about their performances, declaring war frontly. For you to remember, in march if I remember correct, they showed this :
This chart is showing the performance gap between a GTX Titan and a PS4/Xbone. While we know the price difference is huge between them, you need to admit that when a simple GTX 660 Ti runs Battlefield 4 on 1080p ultra a 45-60 fps, next-gen consoles might be not so powerful (remember when TES 4 : Oblivion was released on 360, it was, as far as I remember, as good as a high end pc for that time).
But it is not my objective to debate on that right now.
My point is that, for each console feature, Nvidia tries to make a replica, and a better one. For example, the Wii U/PS4 Remote Play, Nvidia has its Shield :
A console/pad running Android allowing you to play on your couch to any of your games in better ways than consoles (screen native resolution, 60 fps).
Another hardware point, those Battleboxes Nvidia is building, small and nice looking computers ready to use, powered by Nvidia. Too hard to tweak your games by yourself ? Nvidia made Geforce Experience to automatically take care of it (ok, it's far from being perfect, but still, the idea is there).
So now add PhysX, Adaptive V-Sync, 3D Vision, HBAO+,and now Shadowplay, which will soon allow us to stream on Twitch/Youtube, right after the new consoles trend became online streaming, and you can see where I'm going.
Nvidia tries to develop features helping the PC to stay competitive. Ok, it's more expensive, but often, the IQ is better, and the framerate also, inducing a more comfortable experience.
So I don't now if my thoughts are worth a debate, but I found it really interesting to see all those features come up after Nvidia lost the consoles market, and I must say, as a (mostly) PC player, this war is not to displease me.
As I said, I feel like Nvidia is the one keeping PC gaming up to date in terms of features.
First, they openly attacked next-gen consoles about their performances, declaring war frontly. For you to remember, in march if I remember correct, they showed this :
This chart is showing the performance gap between a GTX Titan and a PS4/Xbone. While we know the price difference is huge between them, you need to admit that when a simple GTX 660 Ti runs Battlefield 4 on 1080p ultra a 45-60 fps, next-gen consoles might be not so powerful (remember when TES 4 : Oblivion was released on 360, it was, as far as I remember, as good as a high end pc for that time).
But it is not my objective to debate on that right now.
My point is that, for each console feature, Nvidia tries to make a replica, and a better one. For example, the Wii U/PS4 Remote Play, Nvidia has its Shield :
A console/pad running Android allowing you to play on your couch to any of your games in better ways than consoles (screen native resolution, 60 fps).
Another hardware point, those Battleboxes Nvidia is building, small and nice looking computers ready to use, powered by Nvidia. Too hard to tweak your games by yourself ? Nvidia made Geforce Experience to automatically take care of it (ok, it's far from being perfect, but still, the idea is there).
So now add PhysX, Adaptive V-Sync, 3D Vision, HBAO+,and now Shadowplay, which will soon allow us to stream on Twitch/Youtube, right after the new consoles trend became online streaming, and you can see where I'm going.
Nvidia tries to develop features helping the PC to stay competitive. Ok, it's more expensive, but often, the IQ is better, and the framerate also, inducing a more comfortable experience.
So I don't now if my thoughts are worth a debate, but I found it really interesting to see all those features come up after Nvidia lost the consoles market, and I must say, as a (mostly) PC player, this war is not to displease me.
I pretty much agree with you. I even think that NVIDIA been left out of the console business this generation might proven to be very good for PC gaming in the long run.
Also, don't forget about G-SYNC in the near future. I can't wait to put my hands on a monitor with it.
ColonelSkills
Member
I'm having an issue with shadowplay I can't seem to fix.
It's recording MY line in on chat really really loudly, despite everyone else's voice being fine. In the chat app of choice, it's not my voice being a problem, it's turned down to a reasonable level.
Shadowplay I think is recording it directly, is there a way to tone that down? I turned the levels down on the mic in the sound control panel, and using sound recorder, my voice volume is normal, but whatever I do, its overly loud in shadowplay and causes constant popping and line overload. Any ideas?
It's recording MY line in on chat really really loudly, despite everyone else's voice being fine. In the chat app of choice, it's not my voice being a problem, it's turned down to a reasonable level.
Shadowplay I think is recording it directly, is there a way to tone that down? I turned the levels down on the mic in the sound control panel, and using sound recorder, my voice volume is normal, but whatever I do, its overly loud in shadowplay and causes constant popping and line overload. Any ideas?
Finally!
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/shadowplay-twitch-streaming has the download link. Strangely, it's 28MB?? I guess they're using the installer to download? I'd much rather just download the entire thing up front, especially as I want to install it on another 2 pcs.
UnrealEck
Member
MMMMMMM gotta try this.
Can you turn it down through your audio on your motherboard drivers?
For instance, when I unplug and replug my mic, a Realtek audio manager pops up to confirm what port I'm plugging it into and there are often audio settings I can mess with in that.
Takamura-San
Member
ColonelSkills
Member
Yeah, good point. I was doing it straight through the Windows sound manager, which seemed to have no effect on the shadowplay recording. I'll test it there in Realtek and see if that changes anything.
Thanks for the idea.
Teknopathetic
Member
Hot, twitch support comes the day my 780's going to be delivered. That timing.
xemumanic
Member
But that's a filesystem problem, not a file format problem.
Schrade
Member
It is not a filesystem problem.
maniac-kun
Member
ColonelSkills
Member
I like the stream functionality, but I keep getting drops and I can't quite determine why.
Quality is ok, performance hit is essentially nothing, but I can go an hour, and it'll be fine, but then it'll drop like every 3 minutes for a bit, or something. None of the chat apps are fluctuating, and my connection is fine.
Not sure what's going on with this. Hopefully stability is improved in the future.
Quality is ok, performance hit is essentially nothing, but I can go an hour, and it'll be fine, but then it'll drop like every 3 minutes for a bit, or something. None of the chat apps are fluctuating, and my connection is fine.
Not sure what's going on with this. Hopefully stability is improved in the future.
iNvid02
Member
nvidia really putting out some neat stuff
quality looks great, you burnt that draugr good lol
So this works really good, records perfectly well and no slowdown. One thing though, anyway to record gameplay without recording other sounds from the system? I like to listen to music while I play but shadowplay will record the music and the game sound. Anyway so that it's only the game sound?
I've got the same bug... even alt-tab re-enables the overlay. I now have to run XBMC in windowed fullscreen to hide the indicator and live with it in games. I hope they fix it with the next update. The update before the current one broke my sound recording. I guess I should not update Shadowplay anymore, who knows what's next...
Auto-Reply
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I plan on testing this when my pc arrives. Sounds a lot like what Elgato does with their game capture software (flashback recording) captures your footage when you start it in a temporary file and then it let's you go back a far as you want and hit the recording button if you chose to do so.
The Elgato creates ts files that are actually the temp data and if you dont hit record after a session then they are still there on the harddisk. So that doesn't sound like a temp file at all or as i imagined it to work. I have to manually delete them if i want my gigs back. Also i have no idea how to set a save target there, so that these files go straight to a seperate hdd. I guess i'd have to install the whole application on this seperate hdd and then hope that doesn't cause any problems (C: problems)... hope i don't have to try that with shadowplay (if it's even possible to do so)
The Elgato creates ts files that are actually the temp data and if you dont hit record after a session then they are still there on the harddisk. So that doesn't sound like a temp file at all or as i imagined it to work. I have to manually delete them if i want my gigs back. Also i have no idea how to set a save target there, so that these files go straight to a seperate hdd. I guess i'd have to install the whole application on this seperate hdd and then hope that doesn't cause any problems (C: problems)... hope i don't have to try that with shadowplay (if it's even possible to do so)
Shadowplay has two modes; manual and shadow. In shadow mode, the software will record constantly (from compatible games) to a file in the directory you've declared as TEMP in the Windows Operating System.
Currently there is no way to define where this cache is stored from the Shadowplay application itself.
I use SSDs, so this situation prompted me to download some free software and create a RAMdisk of a few GB. I declared the RAMdisk as my TEMP location so the Shadowplay cache is not causing the premature death of my SSD. Of course, you need memory to spare, but RAM is relatively cheap still.
Nvidia have been very good so far about updating Shadowplay with new features quite swiftly. I have hope that they may add the feature to set the shadow file location at some point.
just a tip: OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) beta6 build has now NVEnc support (the hardware compression function used by ShadowPlay).
you can use it to stream or record locally (with much more flexibility compared to the ShadowPlay app):
http://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10234
it works with windowed mode as well. here's my stream layout: http://i.imgur.com/e2Fpmsk.png
the downsides? while easy to setup, OBS is not as simple and beginner-friendly as ShadowPlay. also you don't have Shadow Mode to always record in the background, you have to explicitly start recording.
you can use it to stream or record locally (with much more flexibility compared to the ShadowPlay app):
http://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10234
it works with windowed mode as well. here's my stream layout: http://i.imgur.com/e2Fpmsk.png
the downsides? while easy to setup, OBS is not as simple and beginner-friendly as ShadowPlay. also you don't have Shadow Mode to always record in the background, you have to explicitly start recording.
Crimsonsky
Member
I need to use this when I get home today. I get an extremely weird amorphous graphical glitch in Skyrim and eventually it messed up the options menu, as well, then froze the game. It's hard to explain, and thusly hard to find an answer for but some video and screenshots might go a long way towards an answer. I had never saw it before, but this is a a new gtx780. Could be the card or could be Skyrim, sometimes it's hard to nail down the culprit.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Has anyone been getting static filled audio on their recordings.
I have it set to record both ingame and mic audio and I randomly get parts of my recordings that are just filled with static and distortions.
Some times it lasts for 30 or so seconds, some times it will be minutes. There are times it will appear at the end of a recording and other times in the middle, so there will be normal audio after the issue goes away.
It seems random as well. Has no correlation to if I am talking or not.
Here is a YouTube clip of the audio issue itself and an image from Sony Vegas showing that you can clearly see the where the problem starts in the editor.
I have it set to record both ingame and mic audio and I randomly get parts of my recordings that are just filled with static and distortions.
Some times it lasts for 30 or so seconds, some times it will be minutes. There are times it will appear at the end of a recording and other times in the middle, so there will be normal audio after the issue goes away.
It seems random as well. Has no correlation to if I am talking or not.
Here is a YouTube clip of the audio issue itself and an image from Sony Vegas showing that you can clearly see the where the problem starts in the editor.