Another blindingly obvious feature is that it offers hardware level video capture for free, currently if you want to capture footage at a hardware level you need expensive video capture cards like those made by AverMedia or Hauppage. This means you simply don’t have to know, predict or pre-empt when something interesting is going to happen, it can happen at any time and you’ll never be caught off guard as you long as remember to end the recording once the event has happened. The Shadow Mode feature is perhaps its strongest advantage as it allows you to indefinitely record a length of footage prior your current point in time meaning if anything good happens you can go ahead and do it, then end the Shadow Mode and capture the event plus a preceding amount of footage that occurred before it. However, as it stands if you’ve got a Kepler GPU and you game at 1080P then ShadowPlay has you covered. Currently the ShadowPlay software is in its beta stages and some features are still missing or in need of fixing. For a totally free software offering I am pleased to say that Nvidia’s ShadowPlay makes a great little tool for the avid gamer looking to share his/her experiences or gameplay. Nvidia’s ShadowPlay software certainly isn’t perfect but neither is anything else currently out on the market, many of those you have to pay for as well.

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