Nvidia Share (formerly Shadowplay)

d8veh

d8veh
I just got a new nVidia Experience update. Now my nVidia Share has disappeared. When I click the icon that used to bring up all the Share settings, I just get a momentary message about an overlay, but I don't see anything. There's no settings anywhere for key-bindings or anything like that. Does anybody know how I can solve this?

Also, ED isn't listed in my games, and the scan doesn't find it. I searched for the exe file but I could only find the launcher. Where does the exe file hide?
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
Haven't used nor installed Nvidia GeForce Experience for a couple of years now. Last I heard it can make for some rather decent video game recording, but other than that I don't see any reason to bother with it.
 
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d8veh

d8veh
Panic over. I just updated the drivers and the Share settings mysteriously re-appeared. I still like to know why nVidia Experience doesn't find ED, if anybody has any ideas.
 

Enderby

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Mine has found ED. By found you mean list it in the games bit and are able to 'optimise' and that?


It just did it I don't know how sorry. Mine is a non-Steam version, just btw.

I realise that this probably isn't that helpful, sorry! :eek:
 
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kdjac

kdjac
Mine over writes ED when instead it should accumluate..

Killed a Thargoid and recorded but the 2nd and 3rd video over wrote the 1st, so I only get the kill rather than the battle.

Only happens with ED.
 

Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
I have an issue where if I don't alt+tab and close the launcher my shadowplay will decide to record that doing nothing for 20 minutes instead of the cool stuff I wanted to record in game...

It's gotten a bit better recently due to the extremely annoying and invasive Occulus Rift software popup each time I open the game. As I beat that back to the curb I usually remember to close the launcher if I haven't already.
It's the one reason I haven't got a couple of .cmd files on my desktop to block and unblock the software from running when I don't/do play with the rift.
 

Codger

Codger
Can't say I've had any problems with the NVidia Share stuff, or GEForce Experience. It finds my ED just fine (I have a Steam install), and I've done a lot of video recording using the Share stuff -- it works great. The only thing I had to do was tell Windows Defender to ignore the output folders used by Share, otherwise I got weird spikes of lag or framerate issues.
 

Valethar

Valethar
d8veh said:
Panic over. I just updated the drivers and the Share settings mysteriously re-appeared. I still like to know why nVidia Experience doesn't find ED, if anybody has any ideas.
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Because the installer for GFE is balls. It regularly disables the control panel after an update, forcing me to reinstall the driver to get it back.

I'm not at all surprised to see it borks other stuff as well.
 

Zebaoth

Zebaoth
@Valethar:
The shadowplay feature has been my arc enemy ever since I bought my old gtx 770.
I never got it to work, no matter what I did.
Completely get rid of all drivers and reinstall both GFE and driver, wipe the entire system and do a clean install, nothing worked.
The turn on/off button only worked once, then somehow auto-flipped back to its previous state, none of the record hotkeys had any effect.

Then I bought the 1080 in may after my 770 passed away and GFE+shadowplay/share have been working flawless ever since.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
Oh, almost forget. The only other reason I really ever bothered with GeForce Experience was to control the LED side panels on my Titan Blacks. I liked having them set to brighten with higher audio levels.

Main reason I stopped using GeForce Experience was for stability concerns. It would often stop working correctly after leaving my computer up for weeks or sometimes months at a time – I host a few servers on it in a virtual Linux machine and also crunch for scientific and humanitarian research using BOINC.
 
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bubbabenali

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If it's only for recording/ streaming OBS (Openbroadcaster) is the No.1 tool for me.

It even works wonderfully with the AMD and intel H/W encoders and with my HDMI Capture card.
 

d8veh

d8veh
Alex Brentnall said:
I have an issue where if I don't alt+tab and close the launcher my shadowplay will decide to record that doing nothing for 20 minutes instead of the cool stuff I wanted to record in game...

It's gotten a bit better recently due to the extremely annoying and invasive Occulus Rift software popup each time I open the game. As I beat that back to the curb I usually remember to close the launcher if I haven't already.
It's the one reason I haven't got a couple of .cmd files on my desktop to block and unblock the software from running when I don't/do play with the rift.
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That's exactly the same for me. It used to work OK until about a year ago, when it changed after an update. It's really annoying because I keep forgetting to close the launcher, then something special happens that i want to record or analyse, but all I get is 5 minutes of a starry sky.
 

subhouse07

subhouse07
Nvidia share/gfe in general is the bane of my existence. Recordings coming out all glitchy, updates always failing to install, the "record last x minutes" feature either taking like a full minute to respond or just not working at all....ugh.

I used to enjoy making videos and stuff when it was still called shadowplay and worked effortlessly.
 

Kevin Kyle

Kevin Kyle
I havent found any of them that doesnt bring my triple screen setup to a crawl. I wished I could find an answer to that issue because I would love to be able to use shadowplay to record whats going on in particular since the Aliens showed up. All I can do is take screen shots. Maybe I should give shadow play another try but I think recording triple screens is the real problem. Best solution so far is to use a well positioned webcam on a separate PC to record which isnt really ideal.
 

CMDR Carbo

CMDR Carbo
Works fine here. More or less. I always use it to update drivers and never had a problem, neither with my previous 970 or with the current 980Ti.

The Share functionality gets confused when the launcher and the game are running. That means if you don't turn it off before launching Elite the overlay sticks to the launcher and not the game itself, so it doesnt work ingame or records the launcher window instead of the game.

Before starting the ED launcher, Alt +Z and turn off recording/instant replay. Start the launcher, launch the game, and after the Nvidia message appears Alt+Z and turn on recording/Instant replay.
This method works for me 100%.

I play at 1440p while recording at 1080p 60 fps with 40 Mbit, never have any delay, stutters or performance loss. Video quality is superb.
 
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ChiefRedCloud

ChiefRedCloud
I have my Elite Dangerous Horizons on my D drive and nothing I do to direct it to the correct folder (D:\Program Files (x86)\Frontier\EDLaunch\Products\elite-dangerous-64) makes it show up in GeForce Experience. What might I be doing wrong?

Chief
 

Avago Earo

Banned
Avago Earo
WR3ND said:
Haven't used nor installed Nvidia GeForce Experience for a couple of years now. Last I heard it can make for some rather decent video game recording, but other than that I don't see any reason to bother with it.
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Well, that must have helped the OP. Be sure to tune in again. Such a help.
 

bubbabenali

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Kevin Kyle said:
I havent found any of them that doesnt bring my triple screen setup to a crawl. I wished I could find an answer to that issue because I would love to be able to use shadowplay to record whats going on in particular since the Aliens showed up. All I can do is take screen shots. Maybe I should give shadow play another try but I think recording triple screens is the real problem. Best solution so far is to use a well positioned webcam on a separate PC to record which isnt really ideal.
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Don't know about shadowplay, but OBS has no problems with multi adapter setups.
At least my Radeon 380s Hardware encoder has no problems with 3x1080p
 
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