Nvidia Shadowplay

[grassman]

Has anyone given it a go yet?

I just installed it it's pretty awesome :lol:
Saved a 3 minute clip of Unreal Tournament 99 Instagib CTF Control right before I got threatened with a ban hammer for pwning to much.

It's currently in the upload process I will post the link when it's up and ready

I guess we can make this an official shadow play upload thread?

 

[looz]

I have. Very nice! On the games I've tried it on so far haven't suffered a performance hit at all.

I do have two issues with it, however. It doesn't record my microphone, and it saves in VBR(variable bitrate). CBR is much better for youtube, for example.

Edit: Screw it, I tried to include a youtube clip but the website didn't allow it without an embedded player. It is a spoiler so I can't exactly have a thumbnail enabled.

 

[grassman]

 

[MrKambo]

whats the performance hit like?

 

[grassman]

Barely noticeable. But than again this is a GTX 780, Will probably be better to ask someone with a slower card where the delta becomes larger and more noticeable.

 

[MrKambo]

Man youtube really sucks the quality out, this batman maxed it, i didnt even notice it running!

Shadow Play is win!!

 

[Selquist979]

ShadowPlay is great. Using a 770 here and the performance hit is really not much 5-7 fps(in Batman AO) with everything maxed out. Really love the fact it records all the audio even music or voice chat. I'm glad they took the time to polish it.

 

[looz]

Yeah, Shadowplay videos get hit badly by youtube due to it not supporting 60fps AND by the fact that Shadowplay saves at VBR. It isn't suitable for streaming.

 

[chrismjurd]

Shadowplay on Crysis3 on my 660

i had to edit it down quite a bit, totally forgot i was recording, 25mins later, just 9.8GB file lol. not like for example fraps where if you saved to the HDD you were playing from it slowed it down to a crawl, no noticeable difference that i could see anyways



and some Skyrim recording

 

[Damien c]

Bit of a necro post but I think it might be worth it.

I have noticed over the last couple of weeks that the performance of my 780Ti SLI setup had dropped and I couldn't think as to why.

I actually started considering that it was the Nvidia Drivers and was considering if I didn't sell my pc in total, that I would end up selling my 780Ti's and jumping to AMD.

So today I decided to download some different drivers but whilst they were downloading I thought I might as well start uninstalling the older drivers.

I uninstalled Nvidia Shadowplay first and then for some reason I thought I should benchmark my cards so I fired up, Firestrike Extreme and ran it with no overclock on the cards.

So this is the result for stock with Shadowplay installed.

6634

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1649294


Overclocked using +195 Core +300 Mem

7470

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1642343



Now with Shadowplay uninstalled


Stock

8849

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1676431


Overclocked with +195 Core +300 Mem

9991

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1676457




So if anyone else has thought that there performance has dropped might be worthwhile checking what it's like, with Shadowplay turned off/on and installed/uninstalled.

 

[Dicehunter]

I like shadow play but they still need to work on it as no software should decrease performance by that amount

 

[Damien c]

I have posted about it on the Nvidia forums as well.

 

[Zoot]

Bit late to the party, but I've been playing around with Shadowplay on my new GTX 780 lately. I have to say I'm quite impressed. I can see it being very useful.

Apparently it leverages an onboard H.264 encoder on the GPU itself, hence the lack of a performance hit.

Quick Test:

I have posted about it on the Nvidia forums as well.

Is it only in benchmarks or is it in actual games too out of curiosity?

 

[Terrifictez85]

I have been using shadow play for the past 2 weeks. I have found it really handy and much better than Fraps.
The fact it also records skype calls makes it even better.
Have used this to record a few Dota 2 moments.
The quality is incredible and I haven't even seen it impact fps much either.







Normally i'd have to mess about with various cables to hook my Elgato into the PC, this has solved the problem for me.

 

[Damien c]

Will check the game performance when Crysis 3 finishes downloading as when I completed it last week, the max fps I was getting at 1080p max settings was around 95fps.

I cannot remember though if it's the single or multi player part of the game that is capped at 100fps.

 

[Dicehunter]

The only area I've noticed performance drops is when recording benchmarks but that's to be expected as your system is stressed.

 

[Damien c]

Well I have just done a test on Crysis 3.

On the 2nd level where you first enter the Dome.

I went all the way through to where you have to disable the first section of mines, disabled them and then let Psycho walk away and then started walking over to where you have to go, and went on the left side of the Ceph Walker up to the Train line and then about 10 to 20 seconds of the cutscene.

Not the best way but here are the results.

Shadowplay On

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
5866, 60000, 71, 125, 97.767

Shadowplay Off

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
6397, 60000, 77, 143, 106.617


Will need to try and get Crysis 1 working and then I will test that using the benchmark tool for it.



***Edit***

Just tried the Crysis benchmark tool but it wouldn't work so instead I ran the Crysis 2 benchmark tool.

Results

Shadowplay On

Min: 17.4FPS
Avg: 128.6FPS

Shadowplay Off

Min: 15.3FPS
Avg: 149.9

So there is a fair bit of a performance drop with having shadowplay turned on, would be interesting though to see if others find the same thing.

 

[Froger]

one big thing i have noticed with shadow play, is that the videos keep going out of sync when i put them into premiere pro, and i try to fix it, and it goes out of sync somewhere else. encoding the video is meant to fix it. im trying it now.

 

[Dicehunter]

One thing I don't like is the fact that 1080P is the max res you can record, I just end up going back to fraps for proper high res footage.