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Best Nvidia Shadowplay Recording Settings

April 15, 2022April 17, 2020 by Roman

Shadowplay (or the Nvidia GeForce experience) allows you to record gameplay seamlessly with minimal performance loss (about 1-5%) by utilizing the dedicated NVENC chip available on selected Nvidia graphics cards. No other game capture method (other than a capture card) is able to record gameplay at such a small performance penalty. In this blog post, … Read more

Best OBS Encoder to Improve Stream Performance: Comparing NVENC, NDI, and x264

April 15, 2022January 26, 2020 by Roman

In this video, I discuss the in-game performance of Fortnite, CS:GO, and PUBG when streaming using three different approaches: NVENC, NDI, and x264. All three approaches come with their benefits and disadvantages, but only one approach is king when it comes to the highest possible in-game performance while live streaming: NVENC. This is especially true … Read more