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Nvidia ShadowPlay
- Thread starter Anthin
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No idea about Shadowplay, but FRAPS works fine.
I never see the point of these "Snapshot" utilities, as a straight "V" key grabs a full resolution image.
By the same token, I keep my nVidia stuff "lean 'n' mean" ... so no Geforce Experience bloatware - and therefore no Shadowplay.
Adam.
sleightflight
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Am I reading you correct ? shadowplay records FSX in DX10 mode, FRAPS is awfull for recording moving footage where as shadowplay is great.
What did you have to do to get it working please.
What did you have to do to get it working please.
Anthin
Charter Member
Hi sleightflight.
At first Shadowplay didn't work when I switched over to DX10.
The next time I switched on Flight sim, enabled Shadow Play Voila!.
It works incredibly well. Maybe check with Nvidia if there is an update.
Let me know if you have any luck. I just wish Snapshot would work
in full screen.
Best wishes.
At first Shadowplay didn't work when I switched over to DX10.
The next time I switched on Flight sim, enabled Shadow Play Voila!.
It works incredibly well. Maybe check with Nvidia if there is an update.
Let me know if you have any luck. I just wish Snapshot would work
in full screen.
Best wishes.
adi518
Charter Member
DX9 or 10, ShadowPlay should work just fine. It's non-related to the problem you were having. Since I've been messing around with SP quite a lot for the past few months, I can attest there was an inconsistency issue (where SP works on/off) caused by drivers, but since then, new drivers are available and I haven't seen this intermittent problem coming back.
As for Adam saying it's bloatware... Adam, do you even know what is it? Nvidia gpus above 650 have a dedicated video chip (along side the core gpu) that can capture gameplay footage without losing performance and without choking your cpu. This feature was given to users for free, instead of the, now useless, payware Fraps. It's not a "screenshot utility". No, no! it captures (as in video) game footage with ease, and superb quality. And you can also stream to Twitch using this thing!
So, ultimately, I say check out factual info and truths before calling something "bloatware", as people who are concerned, might take this incorrect advice. Just my 2c.
As for Adam saying it's bloatware... Adam, do you even know what is it? Nvidia gpus above 650 have a dedicated video chip (along side the core gpu) that can capture gameplay footage without losing performance and without choking your cpu. This feature was given to users for free, instead of the, now useless, payware Fraps. It's not a "screenshot utility". No, no! it captures (as in video) game footage with ease, and superb quality. And you can also stream to Twitch using this thing!
So, ultimately, I say check out factual info and truths before calling something "bloatware", as people who are concerned, might take this incorrect advice. Just my 2c.
Anthin
Charter Member
Thanks ADI.
Hopefully Sleightflight sees this. Why pay 40 bucks US
for Fraps, Mega bucks AUD dollars when shadowplay does the job.
Also Shadowplay is Beta and will only get better. On the other hand
as Snapshot won't work in DX10 Where in hells bells do I find screenshots
after pressing V key? AAARRGG!!!
Hopefully Sleightflight sees this. Why pay 40 bucks US
for Fraps, Mega bucks AUD dollars when shadowplay does the job.
Also Shadowplay is Beta and will only get better. On the other hand
as Snapshot won't work in DX10 Where in hells bells do I find screenshots
after pressing V key? AAARRGG!!!
sleightflight
Members +
Hi All,
Yes I already bought FRAPS a few years back but I found it useless for recording FSX, it introduced bad stutters to the sim, shadowplay on the other hand I found you didn't even know it was recording although sparse grid introduced a weird screen resolution to the recorded video so I found using super sampling fixed that.
I tried to record something last night but I found nothing in my folder.
I will try again and see what happens.
Thanks.
Yes I already bought FRAPS a few years back but I found it useless for recording FSX, it introduced bad stutters to the sim, shadowplay on the other hand I found you didn't even know it was recording although sparse grid introduced a weird screen resolution to the recorded video so I found using super sampling fixed that.
I tried to record something last night but I found nothing in my folder.
I will try again and see what happens.
Thanks.
sleightflight
Members +
Thanks for that info, I just downloaded that this morning, maybe now it will fix the sparse grid issue I had for recording.
I'm afraid I do! It installs dozens of totally unnecessary drivers, bombards me with needless pop-ups, constantly goes online and goodness knows what else!
If someone here could tell me what's so marvellous about the complete "Experience" - as well as if the recorder is better than Fraps (as it's GPU based), then maybe I'll give it a reprieve. I'm not being smart or sarcastic - I just hate yet more tray apps that gobble up system resources. If it's worth having - and it doesn't cripple the system too much then I'm all ears!
Adam.
BTW: I need to add - I'm *perfectly capable* of setting up my games video preferences (including FSX) without some shonky software "suggesting" things to me.
adi518
Charter Member
That's a completes stream of incorrect info.
It does NOT install drivers that aren't mandatory. It does NOT make any pop-ups. Nvidia, is giving the software for free. They don't have a single application where they try to monetize you... they already profited when they sold you that gpu for 500$.
Geforce Experience does a few things, it helps you keep your drivers updated (you can also tell it to include beta drivers) it can optimize your game settings for (personally, I don't use this feature) and it now allows you to have ShadowPlay, which is far better than any gameplay-capture application out there.
For example, I updated to beta drivers using GE, which gave me a 10% increase in FPS in P3D2.2.
It does NOT install drivers that aren't mandatory. It does NOT make any pop-ups. Nvidia, is giving the software for free. They don't have a single application where they try to monetize you... they already profited when they sold you that gpu for 500$.
Geforce Experience does a few things, it helps you keep your drivers updated (you can also tell it to include beta drivers) it can optimize your game settings for (personally, I don't use this feature) and it now allows you to have ShadowPlay, which is far better than any gameplay-capture application out there.
For example, I updated to beta drivers using GE, which gave me a 10% increase in FPS in P3D2.2.
Personal preference, Adi! Everyone exaggerates sometimes! One man's "bloatware" is another man's "essential software".. like Win7's "Aero".
But - I too, only install the Nvidia graphics driver - not because anything else is bloatware, but because I'm not using any other feature - and I update as I judge "the right time".
All the Best,
pj
But - I too, only install the Nvidia graphics driver - not because anything else is bloatware, but because I'm not using any other feature - and I update as I judge "the right time".
All the Best,
pj
Well, Adam wasn't fully informed of what ShadowPlay is. I corrected that.
Aaaah. Well, we're all glad you have fully informed him - he needed correcting. We're glad you're here, as we all need someone to correct us.
I need correcting quite often, too - and my wife sure takes care of that.....
Regards,
pj
Thanks to all for the input. I'm still a little concerned that a vast proportion of it is either unnecessary or bloatware. Why would I want to broadcast my FSX session to Twitch???? Whatever it does, it IS another process that sits there in the taskbar, using up resources - when we spend a lot of time using utilities to remove exactly those sorts of things from our FSX environment.
I *did* run for a while a few months back, but got tired of the endless pop-ups and notifications about profiles or settings for games I don't have. I dare say I might have found a setting somewhere to disable all that, but I couldn't find it that easily.
If SP is reckoned to be substantially better than FRAPS (or Playclaw that I also use) at recording videos I may re-enable SP. Is it that much better?
Adam.
I *did* run for a while a few months back, but got tired of the endless pop-ups and notifications about profiles or settings for games I don't have. I dare say I might have found a setting somewhere to disable all that, but I couldn't find it that easily.
If SP is reckoned to be substantially better than FRAPS (or Playclaw that I also use) at recording videos I may re-enable SP. Is it that much better?
Adam.
Try it out, thank me later...
Hehe ... but before I do, I really need to know it's worth it - especially with respect to the recording feature!
nVidia stuff used to be terrible to clean off the system, but it's not too bad now (as I've already removed "Experience" successfully once).
Adam.