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ZZCOOL Mar 28, 2019 @ 3:50am

geforce experience shadowplay hdr recording issues

i am unable to use shadowplay on my pc no matter what i do

if i record normally with hdr on then it becomes a bright white mess

if i turn off hdr and record again then colors are nowhere near what i was seeing

only way for me to capture the gameplay the way i am seeing it is using shadowplay screen capture to take a screenshot but video recording doesn't work.

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MancSoulja Mar 28, 2019 @ 4:25am

If you have Windows 10, just use Xbox DVR. It's much better than SP.

ZZCOOL Mar 28, 2019 @ 4:57am

Originally posted by MancSoulja:
If you have Windows 10, just use Xbox DVR. It's much better than SP.

but i discovered that i like the shadowplay filters and it seems they are exclusive to shadowplay

Kargor Mar 28, 2019 @ 4:58am

Originally posted by MancSoulja:
If you have Windows 10, just use Xbox DVR. It's much better than SP.

Geforce Experience uses the builtin hardware to encode the video, allowing it to have no noticable impact on performance.

Unless a third party software such as the one you suggest uses the same hardware features, it will bascially kill your gameplay when you hit the "record" button. However, if it's going through the proper APIs to make use of the hardware-assistance for the recording, it is likely to suffer the same problem that the threadstarter has...

Last edited by Kargor; Mar 28, 2019 @ 4:59am

MancSoulja Mar 28, 2019 @ 5:19am

Originally posted by Kargor:
Originally posted by MancSoulja:
If you have Windows 10, just use Xbox DVR. It's much better than SP.

Geforce Experience uses the builtin hardware to encode the video, allowing it to have no noticable impact on performance.

Unless a third party software such as the one you suggest uses the same hardware features, it will bascially kill your gameplay when you hit the "record" button. However, if it's going through the proper APIs to make use of the hardware-assistance for the recording, it is likely to suffer the same problem that the threadstarter has...

It’s not a 3rd party software, it’s a native feature of the operating system. It uses Nvidia NVENC on Nvidia GPU’s and I have no issue recording in HDR using it.

MancSoulja Mar 28, 2019 @ 5:22am

Originally posted by ZZCOOL:
Originally posted by MancSoulja:
If you have Windows 10, just use Xbox DVR. It's much better than SP.
but i discovered that i like the shadowplay filters and it seems they are exclusive to shadowplay

Problem is SP isn’t using any HDR-SDR tone mapping, so when you try to watch the HDR video back in SDR it’s just an over bright, washed out mess. Until it’s implemented properly in GFE there’s not much you can do but put up with it.

Last edited by MancSoulja; Mar 28, 2019 @ 5:22am

CrimsonAssassin Mar 28, 2019 @ 5:30am

What about using other programs such as OBS or Action!?

Both of those allow for game recording and give you files like GeForce, Although Action! is paid it's a good program

ZZCOOL Mar 28, 2019 @ 9:11am

Originally posted by MancSoulja:
Originally posted by ZZCOOL:
but i discovered that i like the shadowplay filters and it seems they are exclusive to shadowplay

Problem is SP isn’t using any HDR-SDR tone mapping, so when you try to watch the HDR video back in SDR it’s just an over bright, washed out mess. Until it’s implemented properly in GFE there’s not much you can do but put up with it.

the problem is it's gta v it has no hdr hdr should not be working, it even looks like a mess with hdr off, i can't in any way record what i am seeing, i have an hdr tv connected and for some reason it causes these problems.

Poppi !! Mar 28, 2019 @ 9:21am

GFE is a problematic mess.
As suggested above, you can utilize far better programs.

Just my opinion from my experience with GFE.

ZZCOOL Mar 28, 2019 @ 9:34am

i figured out what was causing the issue, you can't play a game in fullscreen borderless as everything will run in hdr as the desktop is in hdr, if you make it fullscreen it's isolated from that hdr.