Dec 07 2013

Recording Gameplay Automatically on nVidia Cards

Lately, I’ve been thinking about recording some of my gameplay to upload to YouTube either for strategy hints or just to share some of the hilarious or insanely lucky stuff that can happen during online multiplayer matches. There are some solutions such as FRAPS that will do it but I have found it a little clunky and unreliable.

Apparently, bundled in the Geforce Experience software from nVidia is a feature called ShadowPlay which can record up to twenty minutes of gameplay automatically (although this seems to be limited to ten minutes  or 3.8GB under Windows 7 for some reason, I will have to see if this impacts Windows 8.1).

I will be very keen to try this out once I upgrade my video card as apparently this software takes advantage of the dedicated H.,264 hardware encoder on the GPU to make very light work of video as it is being generated. The output video quality will take a hit down from 1600p to 1080p but that’s perhaps not such a big deal at the moment. It will also record your microphone input so hopefully you will get both sides of in-game chat in the video as a result.

Anyway, I will have a muck around with it when I am setup and share some videos whether or not they turn out good.

Boydo

My name is Boyd and I’m a Service Management Specialist with a knack for operational data gathering, transformation, analysis and reporting.

In 2012, I obtained my Masters of Science in Information Technology through the University of New South Wales @ The Australia Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA).

I was also part of an online community known as the Panasonic Insider Crew in the capacity of “Insider Guru” for Panasonic Australia where I interacted with other tech enthusiasts and find out more about Panasonic's latest gadgets.

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