Shadowplay coming june 25

[SteepGnomeKing]

Does anyone know if this will work with mobile Kepler cards? I feel like I'm left out of some of the things *Nvidia Shield*

[LAwLz]

I'm getting an MSI z87 board specifically for the quick sync support to see if it can be used as a codec in dxtory

I don't think that will work sadly, but I looked around on doom9 and found a program called "Action!" and it can (supposedly) with the help of Lucid Virtu and QuickSync do on the fly encoding to H.264 using the onboard graphics.

 

http://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html

 

Some guys on doom9 is trying to get QuickSync to work with Dxtory but it seems like it's pretty hard to do (especially without help from Intel or the developers of Dxtory).

[Valinor]

Couple of points:
 

First of all, GeForce 600 series was the first NVidia series to feature hardware dedicated solely to h.264 encoding, as per their whitepaper: http://www.geforce.com/Active/en_US/en_US/pdf/GeForce-GTX-680-Whitepaper-FINAL.pdf

Turn to page 26, NVENC section. Ergo, shadowplay is likely a software feature to take advantage of this hardware, hence incompatibility with previous NVidia cards (which could encode h.264, but it used the CUDA capabilities and so would directly impact performance in games).

 

Secondly, the HD 7000 series already includes a hardware h.264 encoder, which AMD called the Video Codec Engine (link: http://anandtech.com/show/5261/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review/9). It may therefore be possible (not knowing the details and not being a GPU engineer I don't really know) for AMD to enable similar functionality for the HD 7000 series and up. /wild_speculation ;)

[silencerbob]

I don't think that will work sadly, but I looked around on doom9 and found a program called "Action!" and it can (supposedly) with the help of Lucid Virtu and QuickSync do on the fly encoding to H.264 using the onboard graphics.

 

http://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html

 

Some guys on doom9 is trying to get QuickSync to work with Dxtory but it seems like it's pretty hard to do (especially without help from Intel or the developers of Dxtory).

Time will tell..ill certainly be keen to try further. With the people behind handbrake and Intel working together for transcoding, the software side will progress further too, admitted separate, but yeah.

It may be another gen away before realtime quicksync gameplay recordings. A man can dream tho.

[JujuShinobi]

This will make me buy an NVidia counterpart to AMD's 7950 if the prices and performance have no more than a 7% difference. If it does, back to Fraps.

Edit: I forgot I was planning to buy the AverMedia Portable to record Tales of Xillia footage for PS3 which can also be used be PC with little performance impact. Derp

[EricX2]

How does it determine what is 'gameplay'? Will it only be directx 11 titles? I used fraps to record zsnes and dosbox.

 

If it can record anything and not just games that the software has enabled it for, it would be awesome. My guess is if nvidia sells more cards because of it, AMD will add it. I don't know exactly how it works, but I would imagine they would be able to figure a way to do it without requiring a TON of engineering. It probably won't be on their next gen cards, but maybe the ones after that.

 

I wonder if they have worked out anything that will let you record and post the content without it being a copyright infringement? In Saints Row the 3rd there was a record option and it would strip out all the music. I wonder if this will do anything like that? I have no idea how it could without the games being programmed for it... but just thinking out loud.

[Jaachiim]

Where do i download it? i cant find anything on the nvidia website

[silencerbob]

it should come with geforce experience(when theres an update) which should be today sometime

[kuddlesworth9419]

It's know the 26th so where is the "Shadowplay". Was that an official date or was it just a rumor that it was coming out on the 25th.

[Hyydrah]

I'm disappointed that it doesn't seem to support any lossless video formats.

[silencerbob]

I'm disappointed that it doesn't seem to support any lossless video formats.

Then use fraps.

This is a dedicated h264 encoder.

It's like saying you're disappointed coca-cola isn't a beach umbrella.

[kuddlesworth9419]

It's June 26th in England and I still can't get ShadowPlay. Was the date correct or was it wrong.

[Hyydrah]

Then use fraps.

This is a dedicated h264 encoder.

It's like saying you're disappointed coca-cola isn't a beach umbrella.

Not really. The whole point of it is to record video at reasonable frame rates, and if you spent over $600 like I did on my GTX 680 they should at LEAST be able to record losslessly using Shadowplay. I don't know much about this whole encoder thing anyway, that's why I brought it up.

[Snickerzz]

k, its the 26th, where is it? :C

[Keystone Nyan Cat]

Still waiting. I guess this was an unofficial leak, but nevertheless do hope to see it launched and in action within a few weeks :)

[silencerbob]

Not really. The whole point of it is to record video at reasonable frame rates, and if you spent over $600 like I did on my GTX 680 they should at LEAST be able to record losslessly using Shadowplay. I don't know much about this whole encoder thing anyway, that's why I brought it up.

Self entitled much?

The fact of the matter is you did not buy the 680 with shadowplay in mind. Fraps has always been there.

[Hyydrah]

Self entitled much?

The fact of the matter is you did not buy the 680 with shadowplay in mind. Fraps has always been there.

How is it self-entitled? It's such a minor, inexpensive request. Even the lower end GPUs have the same encoder, so obviously it must not cost much at all for that, and most likely not for a lossless one either.

 

All I said was that I'd like to have a lossless solution, you act like I'm asking for 5 butlers and a mansion. Why are you so mad?

[qwertywarrior]

depends if future games will be over optimized for AMD

and leave Nvidia waiting for good drivers to make the game playable like Need for Speed: Shift  on AMD cards

or waiting for a glitch to be fixed which would take a month sometimes

[Dark Waters]

How is it self-entitled? It's such a minor, inexpensive request. Even the lower end GPUs have the same encoder, so obviously it must not cost much at all for that, and most likely not for a lossless one either.

All I said was that I'd like to have a lossless solution, you act like I'm asking for 5 butlers and a mansion. Why are you so mad?

H.264 encoding is lossless.

[Hyydrah]

H.264 encoding is lossless.

Are you sure? Like I said I don't know a whole lot about it but from what I've read it's lossy.

[Daban]

It is not here yet? :(

OR can I just not see it since I have a 560ti (in this computer)

[LAwLz]

H.264 encoding is lossless.

Are you sure? Like I said I don't know a whole lot about it but from what I've read it's lossy.

H.264 is in 99.99% of the cases lossy. You can use it for lossless though, but the files are huge and you might as well use FRAPs if that's what you want.

 

What does it use for the audio? Can't find that anywhere.

[jacobs21]

How do I get shadowplay? Do I have to update to the beta driver or something?

[silencerbob]

from the nvidia forums :

 

'' ShadowPlay has been pushed back a few days.."

 

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/548402/geforce-drivers/official-nvidia-320-49-beta-display-driver-feedback-thread-released-6-25-13-/post/3838809/#3838809

[Godlygamer23]

How do I get shadowplay? Do I have to update to the beta driver or something?

It will be part of Geforce Experience.