
(Shadow recordings restart after you save a shadow recording, so if you save a shadow recording of the five minutes pictured and then two minutes later save another one, you'll end up with first a five minute and then a two minute video.) The Shadow time is the maximum length of the shadow recording. The Mode can be Shadow & Manual which allows you to record in both modes, Shadow only which only allows shadow recordings to be saved, Manual only which disables the shadow recording (you might want this for LPs where you don't need shadow recordings), or "stream to Twitch." (You can also get to these settings via the ShadowPlay section in the Preferences tab.) The cog next to the folder can be used to change various settings beyond the four displayed on the main dialog.

Recordings are grouped into folders named after the game being recorded. The folder icon under the switch opens the directory where recordings are stored. So if you're playing a game and something neat happens, you can hit Alt-F10 to save that video. ShadowPlay also has another neat feature: when enabled, ShadowPlay will record a "shadow" recording for the length specified in the "Shadow time" setting. With it flipped on, you'll be able to record gameplay footage by pressing Alt-F9 when a game is running in fullscreen. To enable it, you'll first need to open the GeForce Experience and then click on the ShadowPlay button at the top.īy default the giant switch on the left will be off. It's a great way to deal record games if you have an Nvidia graphics card.īy default it's disabled. It is possible to do simulated keys with this program but I've found it a little buggy.ShadowPlay comes with any Nvidia card that's at least a 600 GTX. That doesn't disable the button but it'll stop doing what you don't want it to do. After installing simply set whatever buttons on your mouse you don't want to function to " disable" (see spoiler). With my mouse (razer mamba) button 4 is the default back button on browsers so I needed to disable it, to do this I use a program called X-Mouse Button Control.



If you're like me and you use a mouse button for push to talk on TeamSpeak (I use Button 4) you've probably run into problems when trying to bind the same key in both OBS and ShadowPlay and numerous other programs. Posting this here as a guide as it's something I just figured out how to do and I found no hard and fast answer on how it's done, I kept running into threads on other forums years out of date talking about registry edits then finding it didn't work anymore and messing around with mic mute/unmute programs but nothing was working for me.
