This window can also be accessed from Preferences > ShadowPlay within the GeForce Experience application.Instant Replay is a fantastic tool if you don’t want to record your entire gaming session but would still like to save a cool move or some ridiculous bug should it come up. You can also select “In-game and microphone”, allowing you to speak into your microphone and have that inserted into the recording, or select “Off” to disable all audio recording.īelow the switch on the left, the two buttons open your recording folder (your user account’s “Videos” folder by default) and the ShadowPlay preferences window. By default, the recording will include will include all in-game audio. The “Audio” option allows you to choose which audio tracks are included with your recorded video.

You can select the Low or Medium profiles, or pick Custom and change the individual settings manually.

By default, it’s set to High, and will record the video at in-game resolution, 60 frames per second, 50 Mbps quality, and as H.264 video. The “Quality” option allows you to configure the quality of your recording. How much more disk space depends on the quality level you choose. Bear in mind that a longer time requires more hard disk space. You can choose any time between 1 and 20 minutes. The “Shadow time” option allows you to choose how much gameplay ShadowPlay saves in its buffer. For example, DOOM, which we used as an example above, uses OpenGL, as does Minecraft. While most games do use Direct3D, there are a few that use OpenGL instead. ShadowPlay only directly supports with games that use Direct3D, and not OpenGL. Not every game will work with NVIDIA ShadowPlay by default. How to Record OpenGL Games (and Your Entire Windows Desktop) Recordings will appear in a game-specific subfolder of your Videos folder by default. You can tweak these settings after enabling ShadowPlay (as described later in this guide), but if they look fine to you, you can start recording now. Just launch a game and use the above hotkeys to record gameplay and show the FPS counter. ShadowPlay also allows you to press Alt+F12 to view a live FPS counter in any game, even if you aren’t recording.

With Manual mode, you can press the Alt+F9 keyboard shortcut to start manually recording a clip, then press Alt+F9 to stop the clip when you’re done recording. When you press the Alt+F10 keyboard shortcut, ShadowPlay will save a clip of the last five minutes of gameplay to your Videos folder. Shadow Mode will automatically record your gameplay and keep the last five minutes. By default, ShadowPlay uses “Shadow & Manual” mode.

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