unwieldy when it comes to recording video. Like GeForce Experience itself, NVIDIA is trying to remove the technology and just let PC gamers play.įRAPS is an old reliable friend, and part of my daily benchmarking routine. It's a manageable file size, already encoded and ready for sharing. To break it down even further, ShadowPlay's high quality setting - a 30Mbps video bitrate and 48Hz 16-bit audio - produces a 675MB video without audio, and 708MB with audio. Using ShadowPlay to record the same length of gameplay yields a file size of 238MB. Set to comparative quality settings (30fps at 1080p), a 1 minute and 9 second clip of Borderlands 2 results in a 3.6GB file with FRAPS. Moreover, FRAPS creates impossibly large video files. 'FRAPS has recorded my game footage for years.' While that's true, the recording process comes with a noticeable hit to performance, something NVIDIA tells me isn't a concern with ShadowPlay. ShadowPlay, planned for Summer 2013, constantly works in the background utilizing the H.264 encoder built into every Kepler GPU from NVIDIA to auto-record your last 20 minutes of gameplay.

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