Nvidia releases ShadowPlay - Records Video While You Play At no FPS Loss
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I have a 670, yay
unfortunately I cant get it to record anything. I hit alt+f10 and alt+f9 in games, it does nothing.
How are the file sizes of the recorded video?
Oh man this is perfect timing.
I have a video project on Cinematography in video games that I was gonna record some footage for.
Now I don't have to pay for Fraps
Oh for crying out loud I'm gonna either have to get Dxtory or put up with Fraps.
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One thing I'm curious about is why W8 users get up to twice the shadowplay time that W7 users get (20min and 10min respectively). I wonder what's under W8's hood that makes the feature so much more powerful.
[QUOTE=laserpanda;42686025]How are the file sizes of the recorded video?[/QUOTE]
My 5 minute experiments were 1.3-1.9GB in size. My monitor is 1440x900, so I assume "High" quality is 720p.
This is awesome, gonna test this with Portal 2
[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;42686207]One thing I'm curious about is why W8 users get up to twice the shadowplay time that W7 users get (20min and 10min respectively). I wonder what's under W8's hood that makes the feature so much more powerful.
My 5 minute experiments were 1.3-1.9GB in size. My monitor is 1440x900, [B]so I assume "High" quality is 720p.[/B][/QUOTE]
All recordings are in 1080p @ 60fps.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;42685999]I have a 670, yay
unfortunately I cant get it to record anything. I hit alt+f10 and alt+f9 in games, it does nothing.[/QUOTE]
Do you see the icon over the game? Also the program doesn't work if the game is in borderless or window mode. Must be in fullscreen.
[QUOTE=DogGunn;42686467]Do you see the icon over the game? Also the program doesn't work if the game is in borderless or window mode. Must be in fullscreen.[/QUOTE]
damn, thats it
I like my borderless :(
Man my GTX770 purchase now just got so much cooler.
I had no idea my card had an encoder on-board.
[QUOTE=DogGunn;42686467]Do you see the icon over the game? Also the program doesn't work if the game is in borderless or window mode. Must be in fullscreen.[/QUOTE]
Works in borderless for me.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;42686484]damn, thats it
I like my borderless :([/QUOTE]
Same :<
But I'm willing to give up Borderless for ShadowPlay. It's just so good being able to save good moments after they've happened, and with barely a performance hit.
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[QUOTE=BlueYoshi;42686493]Works in borderless for me.[/QUOTE]
What game?
CS: GO and BF4, no borderless for me.
[QUOTE=meppers;42680901]first g-sync and now this lol rip amd[/QUOTE]
Maybe AMD will now specialize in really low prices.
I tried bl2 and war thunder borderless
I just finished recording Portal 2 and the video has some frame skips but other than that it's fine.
[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;42686207]One thing I'm curious about is why W8 users get up to twice the shadowplay time that W7 users get (20min and 10min respectively). I wonder what's under W8's hood that makes the feature so much more powerful.[/QUOTE]
I don't remember what the technical explanation was, but it has to do with file sizes. On Windows 7 Shadowplay can't save files bigger than 4 Gb, even if recording manually. On Windows 8 this is only limited by the amount of space you have on your HDD.
Does someone on Windows 7 know what happens when you reach that 4 Gb cap? Does the video get cut into two parts automatically or does it just stop recording?
Edit:
Found a more detailed explanation:
[quote]"ShadowPlay uses the Windows MFT MP4 muxer to multiplex video and audio stream into one single MP4 file. This implementation on Win7 has the limitation of not being able to output valid MP4 file that is larger than 4GB. Win8 does not have this limitation."[/quote]
Trying Blops2, borderless fullscreen. Doesn't seem to record or show overlay.
Just tried Dota 2 borderless, didn't work.
[QUOTE=proch;42686531]Maybe AMD will now specialize in really low prices.[/QUOTE]
They pretty much do already, and they have every console wrapped up.
AMD will be quite fine for the next couple of years.
[QUOTE=cani;42686595]Trying Blops2, borderless fullscreen. Doesn't seem to record or show overlay.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=IAmAnooB;42686663]Just tried Dota 2 borderless, didn't work.[/QUOTE]
Right now Shadowplay only works when the game is fullscreen. A borderless window is still a window.
If they add windowed support and more in-depth audio configuration (select the feeds you want, mic input if you hold down a certain button, shit like that) I would switch to that over Fraps in a goddamn heartbeat.
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oh well, i'm stuck with Fraps for the meantime :/
before you start on my specs saying "what did you expect" etc. etc.
it's much much much more better than the Intel Atom + 2GB DDR2 I had a few months ago, I literally could not give a shit, I don't need to play BF3 or Arma 3 or whatever, I'm happy with what I have.
How does this work if you play games at 30-45FPS if it forces a recording at 60
Honestly I'd rather it just have the option to record at 30-45, especially since almost every web player or video service online only plays back at 30FPS anyways. Would give me much more playtime with the recordings too. 30FPS isn't bad at all to play with if its frame capped and doesn't wildly fluctuate. I honestly only notice choppyness when its below 30 (that said, 45-60 is still nicer and smoother feeling even if 30 looks perfectly smooth to me).
Played DiRT 3, worked very well.
Also, never use VLC to preview your recorded stuff and [U][B]never[/B][/U] alt+f4 a game that you are running alongside shadowplay.
curse my mobile lifestyle
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it's a 680m, laptop runs games just as fine as my desktop rig so I've moved primarily to it to keep continuity of files and let my fiance play games on the desktop instead of her little laptop from college
[QUOTE=J!NX;42684108]A gaming notebook
Those exist? :v:[/QUOTE]
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boy was I wronged
[QUOTE=Killuah;42684061]Everyone else should use "Open Broadcaster Software"
[url]http://obsproject.com/[/url]
Try it. it's SUPERB![/QUOTE]
OBS is awesome, I only wish I didn't have an early i3. I get quite a performance hit when recording / streaming some games.
I wonder if they will make it possible to use OBS with the hardware encoder, that would make a lot of people happy I bet.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;42688012]curse my mobile lifestyle
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it's a 680m, laptop runs games just as fine as my desktop rig so I've moved primarily to it to keep continuity of files and let my fiance play games on the desktop instead of her little laptop from college[/QUOTE]
I remember reading somewhere that they might support laptops later on.
Would be awesome if, I seriously like my labtop.
Is it just me or does the new driver update have some issues? I got a blue screen today just from trying to load up Garry's Mod after getting the update, and second go around it worked properly but suddenly acted all funky. Neither of these problems were cropping up from before the update, I might need to roll back to 320..
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