Shadowplay sucks

calyco

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Oct 7, 2004
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I haven't used it all that much, only started recently. For the past year it seemed to work the few times I tried it. But recently, hitting Alt + Z bring up overlay and blurs game. But the buttons to record do not come up. I hit the key to get out of it and I am left with a blurred image of the game and I cant move, resulting in having to force close game. Either that or I hit Alt + Z to record recent gameplay, go to open video and its a 1.6gb empty video file. POS lol, anything other recording app that is more reliable?
 

Aikouka

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Nov 27, 2001
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I haven't used it all that much, only started recently. For the past year it seemed to work the few times I tried it. But recently, hitting Alt + Z bring up overlay and blurs game. But the buttons to record do not come up. I hit the key to get out of it and I am left with a blurred image of the game and I cant move, resulting in having to force close game. Either that or I hit Alt + Z to record recent gameplay, go to open video and its a 1.6gb empty video file. POS lol, anything other recording app that is more reliable?

Is GeForce Experience up to date? For me, when GeForce Experience is out of date, I get recordings with no sound.
 

DigDog

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i find shadowplay to be amazing, AND geforce experience to be horrible.
 

Aikouka

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Nov 27, 2001
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i find shadowplay to be amazing, AND geforce experience to be horrible.

You know what's the worst part about GeForce Experience... when you try to change a save location. The problem is that GeForce Experience seems to use its own routines to create lists of folders for you to navigate through, but it's so slow. I have a lot of files on my temp drive, which is where I save my videos to. To change the directory, I have to choose the temp drive, walk away for a good 15 minutes, and come back to hope the dialog box has finally populated itself with all of my folders.
 

calyco

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Oct 7, 2004
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Bah, unreliable POS. Updated but now its recording empty video files, then sometimes the keyboard shortcut simply wont record.
 

KentState

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Oct 19, 2001
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Glitched out a couple times over the last few years, but nothing to that extend. Also done many hours of streaming without any issues. May just be a corrupt install on your machine and unfortunately at times can require a refresh of Windows. I would first uninstall it completely and do a fresh install of Geforce Experience.