Nvidia's : Shadow Play (Now Available)

Neil79 · 27 Oct 2013 at 13:38

While ShadowPlay doesn't officially release before tomorrow you can now have a try now via leaked drivers

( 64 Bit version - Vista, 7 & 8 )

The new GeForce 331.65 WHQL driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience in Battlefield 4 and Call of Duty: Ghosts. These Game Ready drivers will also provide performance enhancements in a wide variety of different games.

In addition, the new 331.65 Game Ready driver is bundled with GeForce Experience v1.7 which includes support for two highly-anticipated new technologies. NVIDIA GameStream™ provides end users with the ability to stream PC games from their GeForce GTX-equipped PC directly to a SHIELD device. This update also introduces the Beta version of GeForce ShadowPlay™, an innovated new game capture tool with exceptional features and performance.

New in GeForce R331 Drivers

Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 19% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 327.23 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here is one example of measured gains:

Gaming Technology

Enables GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology

Vista/W7/W8/W8.1 x86 - http://ru.download.nvidia.com/Window...ional-whql.exe
Vista/W7/W8/W8.1 x64 - http://ru.download.nvidia.com/Window...ional-whql.exe

This is useful for recording of video games at better performance using Nvidia based hardware. However some have said it's of lower quality but not by much

SHADOWPLAY IS AMAZING!!! i recorded playing AO with full maxed out physxx high txaa 1080p game ran 80+fps while recording it went down only 1-2fps, so smooth i think it got ability to record 120fps as well, cause when i viewed the video it indeed seem to have the smoothness of 120hz with 100+fps.

Wow .. it works really well! I'm impressed! Is there any way to make the recording indicator visible only when it is recording? I don't want that grey circle to be there all the time.

Works better than expected!!

On Holiday · 27 Oct 2013 at 13:44

Sounds great. I'm not too fussed by a slightly lower quality, as I push my render resolution down from 1080 to 720 to save on file-size (slow upload speed)

I assume Shadow Time is where it's passively recording, so if you forgot to press record then you can still save it? Probably the best feature about it.

Would need it to be able to record In-game audio and mic input audio though, any ideas if it's capable of that?

Supernaut91 · 27 Oct 2013 at 13:51

Installing now

RenoRanes007 · 27 Oct 2013 at 13:55

YarwoodUK said:
Would need it to be able to record In-game audio and mic input audio though, any ideas if it's capable of that?

The In-Game Audio button suggests it at least records that.

Looks good, think I'll wait for proper release tomorrow though.

Neil79 · 27 Oct 2013 at 13:56

RenoRanes007 said:
The In-Game Audio button suggests it at least records that.

Looks good, think I'll wait for proper release tomorrow though.

It will most likely still be beta and still be the same version

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=704908

Neil79 · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:04

Dicehunter · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:23

Will this be different to the beta coming tomorrow ?

Neil79 · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:25

From what people have been saying, it's a no

eekfek · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:27

the recordings, are they still massive in size like Fraps ?

Gazanimal · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:38

eekfek said:
the recordings, are they still massive in size like Fraps ?

According to the link;

A 3 minute and 21 second scene from Battlefield 3 on High quality in 1080p/60 is just shy of 1GB ( Seems like 62FPS is the maximum FPS )

esoteric · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:43

Can't wait to try this. Next step is an nvidia streaming platform with 1 to 2 FPS drop.

MissChief · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:52

Not on the PC at the moment, can you extend the recording length? Thinking about recording my BF4 games. So many things I didn't record.

~>Dg<~ · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:52

its not bad i suppose thing is if you set up fraps right and other recording software and your pc is decent enough there isnt much of a fps drop anyway.

the file size is decent but that s because of quality is worse more than likely.

PinkFloyd · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:58

I thought Fraps isn't meant to be particularly highly regarded these days? Read an article somewhere a while back rating most other bits of recording software over it.
Need to free up some disk space so I can actually record things again, not done it in ages.

leeo · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:59

Such a shame. Can't use this due to my cpu (q6600).
Seems a min i3-2100 or athlon II x4 630 is needed to run it.
I overclocked my cpu to 3.0ghz but still a no go.

Anyone knows if this can be bypassed or something?

Suarez7 · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:59

Recording has always been more heavy on the CPU, even if you could bypass it probably wouldn't work well.

leeo · 27 Oct 2013 at 15:03

Guess its time to upgrade my cpu,mb :s

PinkFloyd · 27 Oct 2013 at 15:26

Suarez7 said:
Recording has always been more heavy on the CPU, even if you could bypass it probably wouldn't work well.

I was under the impression the whole idea of shadow play was that it offloaded it all to the gpu :confused:

Dicehunter · 27 Oct 2013 at 15:27

Shadowplay doesn't work for me, I press on activate, says "Activating Shadowplay" and does nothing :-/

chaparral · 27 Oct 2013 at 16:26

I started downloading them and then I remembered shadow play doesn't support GTX 580's GPU's..........

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