SHADOWPLAY - The best PC Recording software around... BUT

Like the others said, ShadowPlay is free as long as you have a compatible Nvidia Graphics Card. (GTX 600 series and up)

That's one of the reasons why I will pick Nvidia over AMD Radeon GPUs when planning a new custom PC build.
 
Yep NVIDIA lead the market and this is the added bonus! Ask anyone who uses it how you dont notice any frame drop - dxtory and fraps cannot say the same, even OBS drops frames :D
 
Stargater07 said:
Yep NVIDIA lead the market and this is the added bonus! Ask anyone who uses it how you dont notice any frame drop - dxtory and fraps cannot say the same, even OBS drops frames :D
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Yeah. But I heard though that it can't record windowed games/Java games like Minecraft?

Also, I usually just record my Pokemon emulator, so I guess a normal screen recorder should do the trick.
 
No it doesnt record browsers or emulators - but to be honest because graphically its not pushing your graphics card to play those games you wont notice frame drops with any recording software - OBS is my choice tho in that instance.
 
Stargater07 said:
No it doesnt record browsers or emulators - but to be honest because graphically its not pushing your graphics card to play those games you wont notice frame drops with any recording software - OBS is my choice tho in that instance.
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Yeah, I guess since you have a GTX 600 ^ graphics card, there'd be no lag anyways even with a screen recorder.

I personally go with Bandicam at that matter. I've yet to have a problem with it.
 
Shadowplay is nice considering that it does not drop out after 3 minutes of gamplay like Evolve does, but I have multiple video devices\virtual video drivers on my system and it insists on defaulting to ManyCam. I don't know how to get it to use my webcam directly since there's no option to select the video device. Also, I wish there was a status icon for camera on\off which almost no Twitch-broadcasting software has. Also for when our mic is muted. It's not easy to know when your facecam is on.
 
The only thing wrong with it is that its broken on SLI. Pretty much ignores that you have 2 cards and will act as though you have one.
 
Stargater07 said:
Yep NVIDIA lead the market and this is the added bonus! Ask anyone who uses it how you dont notice any frame drop - dxtory and fraps cannot say the same, even OBS drops frames :D
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First off, I would be cautious saying that NVIDIA leads the market. Second, dropped frames can come from a PC build or your internet, if streaming, so saying that your "best" shadowplay program doesn't drop any frames is misleading. I record with OBS and never drop frames, unless streaming, and thats less than 1%. Basically, shadowplay is not the "best" recording software, because there is no "best". Each recording software has its own features it brings to the table. Personally I prefer OBS because it has never given me problems.
 
Wrice4 said:
First off, I would be cautious saying that NVIDIA leads the market. Second, dropped frames can come from a PC build or your internet, if streaming, so saying that your "best" shadowplay program doesn't drop any frames is misleading. I record with OBS and never drop frames, unless streaming, and thats less than 1%. Basically, shadowplay is not the "best" recording software, because there is no "best". Each recording software has its own features it brings to the table. Personally I prefer OBS because it has never given me problems.
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Just take a look at the benchmark tests, they speak for themselves :D
 
Stargater07 said:
Just take a look at the benchmark tests, they speak for themselves :D
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Understandable but I'm talking about real world tests, with different peoples computers and internets. Benchmarks are good things to look at but that's in a perfect world. I'm not dissing your opinion, just telling the other side to it.
 
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