-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Nvidia's ShadowPlay - Now Available
- Thread starter Sethos
- Start date
That doesn't do anything block out his music or other people's voices.
I'm using avidemux.
What settings, please?
Cannon Goose
Member
Recording the desktop and borderless fullscreen games works excellently now.
Edit: LUFTRAUSERS is OpenGL which should work, I thought I read that somewhere, but for some reason it wouldn't record it. However, if I clicked off of the window and then began recording it was technically recording the desktop and worked just fine.
http://youtu.be/BOkhbA_Vnzw
Edit: LUFTRAUSERS is OpenGL which should work, I thought I read that somewhere, but for some reason it wouldn't record it. However, if I clicked off of the window and then began recording it was technically recording the desktop and worked just fine.
http://youtu.be/BOkhbA_Vnzw
RadioactiveLobster
Member
I just wish it had shadow support though I don't even know if that is possible
I'm really happy about the alt-tab fix.
It's a bummer that shadow mode doesn't work in desktop capture. Are they wary of having this running in the background 24/7 on people's PCs? Because there is PVR software that does just that with HDTV streams through the use of CableCard devices. WD even makes specialized PVR hard drives.
TheAngryMonkey
Member
I just put in a GTX 760 and I'm finding ShadowPlay to be awful, at least with Titanfall. I get an immediate performance hit that drags down the 'ol FPS when streaming to twitch. If I'm just using the DVR option it'll eventually crap out hard writing something to disk. It was so bad at one point that I actually got dropped out of the game entirely.
I have an i5 3470 and a 1TB disk (rates 5.9 in Win7 so it isn't great) but this seems unusual. Should there be this much of a perf hit while using it? I don't have this issue at all with OBS.
I have an i5 3470 and a 1TB disk (rates 5.9 in Win7 so it isn't great) but this seems unusual. Should there be this much of a perf hit while using it? I don't have this issue at all with OBS.
TyphoonStruggle
Member
my immediate guess is that it's too taxing for the 1 hard drive.
(I have games running on 7200RPM hard drive, shadowplay caching to another hard drive, and saving videos on my ssd drive)
Do you have multiple montiors?
TheAngryMonkey
Member
Usually a single monitor but if I do run multiple I run the secondary using integrated graphics.
That's what I was worried about. I assume I need to set the temp directory to my other HD right?
suikodan
Member
After seeing what ShareFactory can do on PS4 with recorded gameplay, I wonder
1- Could nVidia comme with a similar solution?
2- If not, is there a (free) video editor that would be as simple and fast as the one on PS4?
ShareFactory is so simple it almost hurts and I'd like to do a similar thing with Shadowplay videos.
1- Could nVidia comme with a similar solution?
2- If not, is there a (free) video editor that would be as simple and fast as the one on PS4?
ShareFactory is so simple it almost hurts and I'd like to do a similar thing with Shadowplay videos.
I haven't used it in forever, but Windows Movie Maker was easy as hell if you just want to mash a few clips together.
Doubt we will see anything like that from Nvidia in a while at least.
CharmingCharlie
Member
Woohoo just got an update to the Geforce Experience and one of the new additions is recording in desktop mode. So I can now capture Minecraft with no performance loss, that makes me a happy bunny.
You have to enable Desktop mode from the configuration settings in shadowplay.
You have to enable Desktop mode from the configuration settings in shadowplay.
Yup, I use WMM. Drag file in, publish straight to YouTube
Crimsonclaw111
Member
I can't boot up Shadowplay? Every time I turn it on, it flickers and then sets itself off.
Can you check if the NVIDIA Streamer Service is running? (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services). I get this behaviour when the service is off.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
It was already on, but restarting the service fixed my problem. Thanks.
If anyone from Nvidia is listening please add support for capturing audio that bypasses the Windows sound mixer. OpenAL for example.
While games that use OpenAL are somewhat rare today, Creative's Alchemy which restores EAX and hardware sound support uses OpenAL which is being converted from DirectSound3D.
While games that use OpenAL are somewhat rare today, Creative's Alchemy which restores EAX and hardware sound support uses OpenAL which is being converted from DirectSound3D.
Windom Earle
Member
WTF Nvidia, it's still causing the NvStreamSvc error in the event log. Fix that shit!
Try Gamersyde?
Ooh forgot about that site. Thanks man I'll upload a file and see how it looks there, then maybe I can free up those 60~ GB off my hard drive woohoo
What are people's experience with recording to a HDD? I put both output and temp files on the (nearly empty) WD Blue 7200rpm to keep it separate from the system/game reads on the SSD. Worked nicely in 1680x1050, but after switching to an 1080p monitor, the videos are noticably stuttery and my guess would be it's because the HDD can't keep up. I haven't actually changed the bitrate though, hrm. Samsung Magician reports a write speed of 57 MB/s, so 50 megabits per second shouldn't be a problem?
Also uploading to Youtube just makes a blurry, lowres mess of everything, ugh.
Also uploading to Youtube just makes a blurry, lowres mess of everything, ugh.
Well I've been having a problem with certain games *refusing* to play in proper fullscreen mode. Namely Battlefield 4 and Assetto Corsa. I can run them borderless windowed, but then I cant use Shadowplay and it just so happens that these are probably the two main games I want to use Shadowplay for.
For more detail, in Battlefield, it'll stay fullscreen for a minute or so then revert to windowed mode. I press Alt+Enter and it goes back to fullscreen, but only for a minute again and then goes back to windowed.
Its quite infuriating and one of my favourite Nvidia features is mostly useless to me right now as a result. Anybody have any idea what's going on? This has been happening for quite a while.
For more detail, in Battlefield, it'll stay fullscreen for a minute or so then revert to windowed mode. I press Alt+Enter and it goes back to fullscreen, but only for a minute again and then goes back to windowed.
Its quite infuriating and one of my favourite Nvidia features is mostly useless to me right now as a result. Anybody have any idea what's going on? This has been happening for quite a while.
Hmm, maybe. I haven't really looked into the desktop capture feature. I'll have to do that.
What Levyne said. So far I've no issue recording using desktop capture but I mainly use Shadowplay for creating video tutorials instead since the performance hit is neglible compared to software like Camtasia Studio (although I wish Nvidia allow for more custom FPS like 5,10,15 or even higher than 60 in the future).
Messofanego
Banned
Why the hell can I not take screenshots? I have a new laptop and Shadowplay works a wonder with not cutting framerate when recording, but I also want to take screenshots. Am I missing something blindingly obvious here?
Cannon Goose
Member
Shadowplay only records and streams video of games or your desktop. Honestly I'm surprised it doesn't have a screenshot feature.
Teknopathetic
Member
Instead of being slaved to Shadowplay and forced to use Fullscreen and the limited Shadowplay options, use OBS with the NvEnc encoder (Basically, Shadowplay in a different program). That way you can capture games that are borderless windowed/windowed and you have far more control over recording/streaming options.
Cannon Goose
Member
Actually Shadowplay has supported desktop recording (like OBS's monitor capture) for a while now and that includes the excellent titular feature (constant recording in the background) for basically any game or program. Shadowplay is still definitely lacking in options but for general game recording it works very well.
Teknopathetic
Member
"Actually Shadowplay has supported desktop recording (like OBS's monitor capture) for a while now and that includes the excellent titular feature (constant recording in the background) for basically any game or program. Shadowplay is still definitely lacking in options but for general game recording it works very well."
OBS doesn't just do "monitor" capture, though. It's also capable of grabbing windowed games directly, exactly as it would a fullscreen game. So, if you only have one monitor, you can alt-tab to other programs without it showing on your stream.
OBS doesn't just do "monitor" capture, though. It's also capable of grabbing windowed games directly, exactly as it would a fullscreen game. So, if you only have one monitor, you can alt-tab to other programs without it showing on your stream.
Cannon Goose
Member
Teknopathetic said:
That's because OBS is built specifically for streaming. Shadowplay isn't. I know Shadowplay CAN stream, but I highly doubt that anyone is "slaved" to it and actually using it to stream on Twitch. Of course OBS would be better for streaming; It's built for that and local recording and that's it. Shadowplay's main draw is that it constantly records in the background without taking up hard drive space. They're two completely different pieces of software with different purposes.
Also, before Shadowplay had desktop recording patched in I tried OBS with the NvEnc plugin and it didn't run anywhere near as well as Shadowplay did. Even trying to record 720p30 resulted in dropped frames as it was recording. Shadowplay however, recorded 1080p60 video with zero dropped frames in-game or in the recording.
Teknopathetic
Member
"That's because OBS is built specifically for streaming. Shadowplay isn't. I know Shadowplay CAN stream, but I highly doubt that anyone is "slaved" to it and actually using it to stream on Twitch. Of course OBS would be better for streaming; It's built for that and local recording and that's it. Shadowplay's main draw is that it constantly records in the background without taking up hard drive space. They're two completely different pieces of software with different purposes."
I'm well aware of the differences between Shadowplay and OBS. SeanSpeed had a problem with Shadowplay, I offered an alternative solution to his problem.
I'm well aware of the differences between Shadowplay and OBS. SeanSpeed had a problem with Shadowplay, I offered an alternative solution to his problem.
Couple questions - Does Obs + NVEnc offer similar quality/performance/file size levels to Shadow Play? Does it capture variable framerate like shadowplay?
Been searching for a good/cheap solution for 60fps game capture for a while now, shadowplay isn't the highest quality in the world but there are very few times you need 1080p/60 near uncompressed IQ and so speed & convenience is actually really valuable when putting together a trailer or something. Tried using shadowplay recently but the variable framerate captures just screws up editing even though the resulting image isn't too bad.
Unfortunately FRAPS is just a bit too intensive (in all aspects) for my setup and I can't afford to splurge on a high end PC or capture equipment.
Been searching for a good/cheap solution for 60fps game capture for a while now, shadowplay isn't the highest quality in the world but there are very few times you need 1080p/60 near uncompressed IQ and so speed & convenience is actually really valuable when putting together a trailer or something. Tried using shadowplay recently but the variable framerate captures just screws up editing even though the resulting image isn't too bad.
Unfortunately FRAPS is just a bit too intensive (in all aspects) for my setup and I can't afford to splurge on a high end PC or capture equipment.