ShadowPlay recording wrong software

[himynameisryan21]

Hi All, I have tried to condense this as much as possible

 

Shadowplay has been recording a software that is in the background instead of the game i'm playing and i can't figure out how to change this without closing that other application. 

For reference I have a 1 ultrawide monitor setup, so it isn't the other issue I've seen while attempting to remedy this where the incorrect monitor records.

This means that after i use instant replay to record a clip, im left with just my mic audio and a background program being recorded 

 

Here are the programs i was using at the time:
Game attempting to be recorded with instant replay: Halo Master Chief Collection (however the same issue occurs in any game)

Program that was actually recorded: AirServer for Windows 10 (it is in the background behind the game)

Other softwares open: just discord

 

Steps i have tried so far to remedy this: changing the order i open applications, minimize airserver, restart pc.

and i can't find a setting for which program is recorded in any of the nvidia settings

 

So, does anyone know a solution?

Thank you all in advance for help and for reading such a lengthy post

 

PS: Just Closing AirServer does solve the issue but it would be ideal to avoid this as I use it to airplay from my phone so i can control music (apple music not spotify) on my pc from phone/watch (round about solution ik, but i come up with ridiculous jank solutions to problems like this) 

[flibberdipper]

I think the issue is that where AirServer is technically a media application in your case, it's throwing ShadowPlay off and recording that instead. I feel like your only options in this case are to close AirServer or use OBS Studio instead since you can tell it to only record specific windows, or just record the wholeass screen.

[himynameisryan21]

On 10/22/2023 at 10:01 PM, flibberdipper said:

or just record the wholeass screen.

Does shadowplay even have that option?

[Avocado Diaboli]

59 minutes ago, himynameisryan21 said:

Does shadowplay even have that option?

In the overlay, you should see a menu option for privacy control. You can enable desktop recording there.

 

But I think what @flibberdipper was referring to was just using OBS to record your screen. Shadowplay is great when it works, but severely limited when you run into conflicts like this and can't manually make changes.

[flibberdipper]

10 hours ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

But I think what @flibberdipper was referring to was just using OBS to record your screen. Shadowplay is great when it works, but severely limited when you run into conflicts like this and can't manually make changes.

Bang on. It is just about useless if you don't enable the ability to record the desktop. Granted, now half the time games just go to the folder where it would normally record the desktop, but that also means that now it's actually recording the damn game which it was not doing before.