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[Morggo]

Blew 3 hours of game time tonight trying to get ShadowPlay working.

Brand new Alienware rig, can't add anymore to it.
980Ti card.

Latest drivers on everything.
Reinstalled Game Experience twice.
Tried upgrading to the new Beta, fail. Reinstalled current.

If I stand on my head, snort mushrooms, drink unicorn tears I can sometimes get the last 20 minutes of game 'dvr' time to save with the hotkey. Tried changing hot keys, all the usual. Made sure I'm in Full Screen mode per requirements.

The manual record and save works.. never.

Am I just stupid trying to use Shadowplay... or is there a better always-on-recording method to catch that epic match... I'm tired of missing out on them.

Edited by Morggo, 23 December 2015 - 12:42 AM.

[Pineapple Salad]

I've never had any problems with it. I have GTX970. I run the game in full window mode if that makes any difference.

[Leone]

I gave up as well. I'm currently using Open Broadcasting Software.

~Leone.

[Anachronda]

I was never able to get it to start recording at all. I tried another capture program, which worked, and that program only worked if I used a hotkey. The other way of clicking the window never worked. The FPS counter showing up was an indicator the program at least knew the game was there and in that case would also indicate whether it was recording. I was able to get the fps to show up on Shadowplay but nothing else.

I would suggest engaging Nvidia or posting in their forums. They can most likely be of assistance. This question is one I have wondered about awhile but I have not got into it since there has been a lot of stuff on my plate lately and not a lot of disk space.

I would appreciate anyone who has it working telling how they get it going. How do they activate the recording and how do they know it is actually doing it? At what point is something actually written to the folder where the videos are supposed to be stored?

[Morggo]

I'm going to give it one last go, then move on to Open Broadcast.

... wondering off hand... I play on a triple monitor set up... wondering if perhaps it cannot capture that resolution span.. hmmmmm

Might try with just a single monitor. Course that doesn't help since I always play 1x3 if that's the case...
You know if OBC can handle spanned monitors?

EDIT: Yep, at least as of 10 months ago, Shadow doesn't support multi monitor spanning (which is just bizarre since, you know... monitor spanning is a native feature of the NVidia drivers )

Ah well, I'll still check Open Broadcast, but betting it won't either... *sighs*

EDIT 2: Open Broadcast appears to be able to set a custom rez and focus just on the center monitor.. messing with it now will report back for those interested.

Edited by Morggo, 23 December 2015 - 06:52 AM.

[Husker Dude]

I had to enable the option to record desktop, I think I'm also running in full windowed mode.

[Coolant]

Game Booster

http://www.iobit.com...gamebooster.php

[Nightmare1]

I use a single monitor and it works fine for me. Video example below:





I have it set to Fullscreen, I think. Initially, I had some issues getting Shadowplay to work, so I was swapping between Fullscreen and Full Window. I can't recall what I finally settled on, but Fullscreen sounds right. Anyways, after a lot of frustrations like what the OP described, it just started working. I still don't know why, to this day, but now that it works I think it's awesome! I almost never use OBS now.

[Kryton77]

Mine works fine, also using a GTX970. I play on full screen. I have it set to switch on by pressing F9.

[Morggo]

Chatted with the nice folks at NVidia and they confirmed that Shadow Play still officially only works on a single monitor set up.
No idea if/when they might enable other resolutions (like 1x3 @ 5760x1080) so I guess either I go back to one monitor or try another capture software. Shame really since Shadow Play creates ridiculously small sized files.

[Comrad]

Shadowplay for Triple Monitor 5760x1080 setups
Here is the latest workaround to getting SHADOWPLAY to records triple monitor setups like 5760x1080
1) Uninstall shadowplay and any NVIDIA display driver above 358.87 (otherwise skip these steps and see below)
2) Download the 358.87 driver from NVIDIA (nothing higher yet!)
3) Install 358.87 using custom option and checkmark "Perform clean install" Check box.
4) Turn on SHADOWPLAY before changing resolution (should be in 1920x1080 on 3 screens)
5) Under GFORCE EXPERIENCE PREFERENCES SHADOWPLAY checkmark the Allow Desktop Capture (gives an icon at the bottom right of your screen, so you can see that SHADOWPLAY is working)
6) Using NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL choose Configure Surround, PhysX. Checkmark the span displays with Surround.
7 Change the resolution to 1920x1080.
7) Reboot.
8) Change the resolution to 5760x1080.
9 Press alt-F10 to write shadowplay. (you must do this once because the first one is always squishy)
To get it to work each time you shutdown, reboot or logout.
1) change resolution to 1920x1080
2) shutdown, reboot, or log out.
3) change resolution to 5760x1080
4) press alt-F10 to flush the first "squishy" video.

Do not update. You must set all of the settings before you reboot since gforce experience will want to force an update.

[Oswald Boelcke]

i can record fine, but when i am not recording, and i hit the button to capture the last 20 minutes, i get a corrupted mp4. all the colors are smeared and it is unwatchable. audio works fine though. i have written nvidia, but they refuse to help.

running 960ti

[PhoenixFire55]

Morggo, on 23 December 2015 - 12:40 AM, said:

Blew 3 hours of game time tonight trying to get ShadowPlay working.

Ok quick question ... Do you run MWO in full screen mode / full window mode / windowed ?