How to Record Screen with Nvidia GeForce Experience ShadowPlay?

For those who're using Nvidia graphics cards, I bet you're supposed to be familiar with the Geforce Experience, which is Nvidia's management and control software for updating your drivers and optimizing your games and applications. Meanwhile, it also comes with a hardware-accelerated screen recording utility named ShadowPlay, to share your screen, gameplay, victories and highlights. Now, Nvidia has officially rebranded "ShadowPlay" as "Nvidia Share", but personally, ShadowPlay seems pretty cool.

The biggest advantage of Shadowplay is, of course, there is no additional cost and video screen recorder required, as long as you have an Nvidia graphics card. Sounds great? So, you may want to figure out how it works. Next, I'll elaborate how to record screen and gameplay with Nvidia GeForce Experience ShadowPlay. There we go!

Many people may think that such a powerful function would be very cumbersome in operation. In fact, as long as you are using an NVIDIA graphics card, open the Geforce Experience software, and enable the in-game overlay of this function, which basically completes the first preparation. If there is no Geforce Experience app on your PC, follow the steps to download it and activate "IN-GAME OVERLAY" feature.

Step 1. Download and install GeForce Experience from Nvidia's official website: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/.

Step 2. Launch GeForce Experience, and log in your account.

Step 3. Press the "Gear" icon next to your account name to open the "Settings" interface.

Step 4. Go to "GENERAL" tab and turn on "IN-GAME OVERLAY" option.

Step 5. GeForce Experience provides optimal settings for over 1000 games. Just switch to "GAMES & APPS" tab, scan and optimize your game settings.

Note: To ensure a smooth GeForce Experience recording, you'd better have a GeForce GTX 750 or higher graphics card with 496.13 Driver or later on a PC with at least 4GB RAM or higher. The requirements will be updated in the near future.

After you complete the above preparations, here's how to record gameplay using Nvidia GeForce Experience ShadowPlay:

Step 1. Start the game you want to record or get ready for recording desktop activities.

Step 2. Simply press the hotkeys "Alt + Z" to access the ShadowPlay overlay panel.

Step 3. To make GeForce Experience record screen, press the hotkeys "Alt + F9". NVIDIA ShadowPlay will start the GPU-accelerated video recording.

Step 4. Just press the hotkeys "Alt + F9" again to finish the recording.

Optional. Before you start recording with Nvidia Experience, you're allowed to customize the ShadowPlay settings by clicking on the "Gear" icon on the ShadowPlay overlay panel. Here you can specify a desired destination directory to save your recordings, change keyboard shortcuts, and modify video quality, length, resolution, frame rate, and bit rate as you wish.

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That's how to use Nvidia ShadowPlay to record screen. However, many people complained that the Nvidia recording software badly decreased the gaming performance, which resulted in unexpected ShadowPlay not recording, lagging, FPS drops, audio sync problems, etc. If you are in this unfortunate situation, WonderFox HD Video Converter Factory Pro, as a timely plan B, will save you from headache in a breeze.

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If you have a decent PC with GeForce GPUs, it's a fairly efficient way to record screen and gameplay using Nvidia GeForce Experience. However, if your computer is not qualified or powerful enough to use Nvidia ShadowPlay, HD Video Converter Factory Pro is also a great option, which can not only satisfy your video capturing need, but also enable you to edit and polish your recordings. Even a novice can handle this utility without any difficulty. Hopefully, this post is of great help to you guys. Your thoughts would be appreciated if there is any better solution. Thanks for reading!