Nvidia releases ShadowPlay - Records Video While You Play At no FPS Loss
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Just tried this out, made a quick run through System Shock 2 with this on, had a slight lag spike about half way through, but i got a good video, no sound on it though. Also holy shit 1080p eats up space, 10 minutes took up over a gb of space.
[QUOTE=zombini;42682598]Just tried this out, made a quick run through System Shock 2 with this on, had a slight lag spike about half way through, but i got a good video, no sound on it though. [B]Also holy shit 1080p eats up space, 10 minutes took up over a gb of space.[/B][/QUOTE]
That is impressively good, fraps for example can eat 4gb every couple of minutes.
[QUOTE=Jsm;42682615]That is impressively good, fraps for example can eat 4gb every couple of minutes.[/QUOTE]
It was also 60fps 1080p, so be extremely impressed.
[QUOTE=Bazsil;42682365]You really shouldn't have gotten a laptop for gaming anyway, even a console would have been better.[/QUOTE]
What a joke, you should buy a gaming laptop if you can afford it and it suits your lifestyle. For me, my ROG asus laptop is fantastic, I play basically any game, take it to work, take it home, take it to a friend's place. Because i'm always moving around and I still want to be able to play games, its just fine for me.
If you buy a gaming laptop, don't expect it to do what a desktop does, there is no way its going to be as powerful. Its not a power choice, its a lifestyle choice. I dont even understand why you would be like "a console would have been better", are you fucking kidding me? If it was "for gaming" he should have gotten the most high-end desktop money could buy, not a fucking console. When someone buys a laptop its because they want portability over running BF3 at ultra on 3 screens at 120Hz.
Sounds like a pretty cool feature, too bad my GTX 550ti can't do it though.
[QUOTE=Jsm;42682615]That is impressively good, fraps for example can eat 4gb every couple of minutes.[/QUOTE]
i dont understand why you people keep trying to compare lossless recording to lossy
if you used the same compression the hardware encoder uses on the fraps file it would be the exact same size and quality
shadowplay and fraps are two different ways of recording; if you have the hardware to support it, fraps is definitively superior
[QUOTE=Hinterlight;42681707]AMD keep coming up with open-source software, and nVidia just does not want to return the favor.
I know they are two competing businesses, but it feels like AMD is trying to help the industry by making these programs anyone can use and nVidia are being a bunch of cockbags by constantly putting out this awesome stuff that they only allow to work on their hardware.[/QUOTE]
amd cards, software wise, can do anything nvidia cards can other than physx (and some graphics effects that nvidia developed). amd cards can't do this because there is a physical, dedicated h264 encoder in every nvidia gpu from 600 series and up
complain to amd that they don't have an h264 encoder in every card
[QUOTE=triFeral;42680490]fucking kill me I have a gtx 640 and they require a 650[/QUOTE]
I don't even have a GTX card...
...I have a fucking 210...
Recorded some Endless Space battles with ShadowPlay
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve32pQBUa7w[/media]
ShadowPlay is fantastic however the lack of options and issues with the audio going out of sync all the time makes this unusable at the moment but some fixes later it will absolutely be the best way to record a game.
[QUOTE=garychencool;42682771]I don't even have a GTX card...
...I have a fucking 210...[/QUOTE]
how do you even live
[QUOTE=robotman5;42682672]Sounds like a pretty cool feature, too bad my GTX 550ti can't do it though.[/QUOTE]
550ti bros
We're slightly mediocre together
cya l8r dxtory
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;42682314]
[url=http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-680M-vs-GeForce-GTX-680]How Neutered Is It? According to GPUBoss, about 20FPS on Bioshock Infinite.[/url]
I am never getting a gaming notebook again. Fuck the inconvenience of having a desktop - I shouldn't have to kick Bioshock Infinite's graphics down to low to just get my framerate at a number reliably higher than 20 when using anything with "GTX" and "680" in its name.[/QUOTE]
I call shenanigrams on that, I own a Sager NP9150 with a 680M and it handles everything I throw at it just fine. BI included. Have you overclocked it?
But really yeah, if you honestly thought a 680M was an equivalent to a 680 then that's a lack of proper research on your part.
I am so thankful that I decided to upgrade from a GTS 450 to a GTX 660
Too bad that I have an AMD card, but I suppose MSI afterburner still works very good for me(almost no fps drop in MOST games) but it crashes some games lately for me.
[QUOTE=Jsm;42682615]That is impressively good, fraps for example can eat 4gb every couple of minutes.[/QUOTE]
I recorded a fight in Castlevania Lords of Shadow that took around 20 minutes. On 1080p and 60fps, the resulting file was around 75GB. It can be rendered to a better format, but you just can't keep the original raw-files on your PC for long. I can't even imagine recording something like every-day 30-40 minute videos that TBFP does.
Going to give this a try, the shadow-mode sounds pretty cool.
Downloading the update and going to test it out!
[QUOTE=CanadianBill;42681805]God dammit I literally bought Dxtory two days ago[/QUOTE]
Dxtory is still incredibly badass. Trust me, if you use it you will get your money's worth.
Fuck, i only have a GTX 460m and I got excited there for a minute :(
[QUOTE=Supacasey;42683117]I call shenanigrams on that, I own a Sager NP9150 with a 680M and it handles everything I throw at it just fine. BI included. Have you overclocked it?
But really yeah, if you honestly thought a 680M was an equivalent to a 680 then that's a lack of proper research on your part.[/QUOTE]
I have an (apparently) NP9170 (The serial on the bottom says its a Clevo 170EM, which apparently is the equivalent of a Sager NP9170), and it underperforms in everything graphical. Metro Last Light, for example, I have to turn off Tessellation completely, turn antialiasing off, set texture quality to "normal", and minimize texture filtering to average 22 frames per second - just enough to stop from stuttering most of the time.
However, it is not overclocked at all, so far as I know - CPU or GPU.
How would I go about doing so? I have never overclocked a GPU before, and the last CPU I overclocked was when I was like 14 and had my dad help me with that.
Maybe if I'm lucky, overclocking will solve my graphical issues at least. I still won't be able to use ShadowPlay, but just being able to play Bioshock with high settings and have it not be Microsoft Powerpoint: The Game would be great. :v:
i think you're just massively overestimating your laptop
and overclocking a gpu that already runs hot as fuck, compounded by the fact that it's in a confined space with almost no airflow, is not a good idea at all
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actually after doing a little more research it seems your gpu is downclocking itself cause you really should be getting better performance than what you're describing
you should probably check your temps
[QUOTE=Don Knotts;42683205]Dxtory is still incredibly badass. Trust me, if you use it you will get your money's worth.[/QUOTE]
I'd like to see some heavy comparison between the two performance-wise. I was planning on getting Dxtory when I got my new rig, and this sounds somewhere between marginally overhyped and a crock of horseshit. Particularly looking at the only comparison test I can find, in which ShadowPlay looks really weird compared to Dxtory.
[video=youtube;OjgineJn_AI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjgineJn_AI[/video]
The smoke looks furry, for some reason.
[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;42683314]I'd like to see some heavy comparison between the two performance-wise. I was planning on getting Dxtory when I got my new rig, and this sounds somewhere between marginally overhyped and a crock of horseshit. Particularly looking at the only comparison test I can find, in which ShadowPlay looks really weird compared to Dxtory.
[video=youtube;OjgineJn_AI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjgineJn_AI[/video]
The smoke looks furry, for some reason.[/QUOTE]
that video is really dumb (for obvious reasons) and i think it's funny you think a dedicated hardware h264 encoder is somehow 'a crock of horseshit'
[QUOTE=Odellus;42683300]i think you're just massively overestimating your laptop
and overclocking a gpu that already runs hot as fuck, compounded by the fact that it's in a confined space with almost no airflow, is not a good idea at all
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actually after doing a little more research it seems your gpu is downclocking itself cause you really should be getting better performance than what you're describing
you should probably check your temps[/QUOTE]
sager's/clevo's (same shit) have independent cooling for the CPU and GPU. I've overclocked mine and it doesn't break 70C. 60C if I manually max the fans.
As for what you can expect from OCing it,
[img]http://i.imgur.com/TGBsP.jpg[/img]
As for how to do it, [URL="https://www.google.com/search?q=gtx680m+overclocking+sager+site:forum.notebookreview.com&rlz=1C1PRFA_enUS439US439&espv=210&es_sm=93&biw=1920&bih=979"]Google is your guy.[/URL]
This thing is really amazing. Seriously. Recorded 10 minutes of Max Payne 3 footy at 1080p60fps and it came out as just 3.64GB? That's revolutionary.
Oh sweet, I get to use ShadowPlay since i have a GTX660 and it sounds just the thing I'd want.
Enh. I'll be sticking with fraps.
It's pretty awesome for lossy, but lossless --> conversion later simply works better on the quality end.
[QUOTE=27X;42683463]Enh. I'll be sticking with fraps.
It's pretty awesome for lossy, but lossless --> conversion later simply works better on the quality end.[/QUOTE]
The only reason I'm going to start using this is the shadow-mode. I've missed like a trillion great moments in a fuckton of games which I would have wanted to record and save somewhere.
Shame I have a 560ti, oh well. I'll probably do a video card upgrade in a year or two as my 560ti is still excellent, way of tech things go obsolete (doesn't mean it's a piece of shit) in a few years.
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;42683291]I have an (apparently) NP9170 (The serial on the bottom says its a Clevo 170EM, which apparently is the equivalent of a Sager NP9170), and it underperforms in everything graphical. Metro Last Light, for example, I have to turn off Tessellation completely, turn antialiasing off, set texture quality to "normal", and minimize texture filtering to average 22 frames per second - just enough to stop from stuttering most of the time.
However, it is not overclocked at all, so far as I know - CPU or GPU.
How would I go about doing so? I have never overclocked a GPU before, and the last CPU I overclocked was when I was like 14 and had my dad help me with that.
Maybe if I'm lucky, overclocking will solve my graphical issues at least. I still won't be able to use ShadowPlay, but just being able to play Bioshock with high settings and have it not be Microsoft Powerpoint: The Game would be great. :v:[/QUOTE]
You may want to look more into things that might be keeping the games from running at their full potential. I own a sager laptop with a 260m and I was quite happy with it until stuff like BF3 started coming out.
It won't be incredible, but I can't understand why you'd be getting less than 30 with everything cranked down.
[QUOTE=AWarGuy;42683526]Shame I have a 560ti, oh well. I'll probably do a video card upgrade in a year or two as my 560ti is still excellent, way of tech things go obsolete (doesn't mean it's a piece of shit) in a few years.[/QUOTE]
Wait wait wait no no no 560ti cannot use it?
NO NO NO
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