Quick question guys, If I have a R9 295x2 using as my graphics driver and I plug in a GTX 780ti for physx can I use shadow play. I've not tested it yet just curious if its possible. Anyone Know?
I believe Shadowplay by recording the output of your video card (i.e. it's a hardware recorder), so I would not expect it to be able to capture the output of a videocard which does not have a hardware encoder built in.
It may be possible, but I also thing that crazymobster is correct. I'd just test it if I were you and see what happens.
I'm not sure whether you will be able to use ShadowPlay but I know Raptr GVR is a good alternative because you only loose a few frames here and there if you are using an AMD GPU. I use it myself on my 280x and I quite like it
If you have them in the same system, it won't allow you to do it unless you are running the 780ti as your primary GPU. PLUS the drivers will conflict with each other. Linus has done a similar test like this. He goes slightly in depth in this video.
I want to use AMD GVR but for some reason it crashes as soon as game starts. So I was looking for alternative solutions. I don't know why GVR doesn't work it was a fresh install with fresh drivers. I've never had this problem with shadow play. I'll post a picture of the error I'm getting if anyone has any idea or a solution to whats going on.
IIRC shadowplay uses the h264 encoder right on chip to be able to do everything on the fly, It's not just software magic, Nvidia has some hardware doing stuff.
As above it will not work like that but the Raptr software that comes with the drivers has a dump feature, defaults to 20 seconds but I believe is expandable to more time. where you can dump the previous [insert time here] of game play.
Like others said before me, Shadowplay is an Nvidia feature attached to the drivers.
MSI Afterburner allows you to capture and work similarly, in terms of it capturing and encoding on the fly. Raptr allows something similarly.
The old-school way of doing things is capturing things with FRAPS to capture the raw footage, then using a program like handbrake to encode a video. Full use of FRAPS, though, costs money.
Don't forget about the huge files that fraps creates and I'm pretty sure that Fraps uses the CPU to capture so its gonna perform worse than ShadowPlay
Perform worse in the sense that you will take more of a hit to FPS - but, again, you are capturing raw, uncompressed footage to encode as you please.