Whoever has an nvidia 600 series or higher, better check this one out:

 

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-shadowplay-beta-available-october-28

 

This is essentially a Fraps replacement feature! Nvidia developed a way to capture gameplay, but in a way that doesn't harm performance as much as other tools, Fraps for example. You need to install Geforce Experience and wait for it to update itself to 1.7 (as of now, the update isn't released yet!). Then, you can immediately start using this feature by playing your game and hitting the corresponding hot-keys to start capturing! (just like you'd with Fraps).

 

Personally, can't wait to test it out and truthfully, I feel so good being on the green side right now.

 

A quote from NV's blog:

 

ShadowPlay leverages the H.264 hardware encoder found on GeForce GTX 600 and 700 Series graphics cards to record 1920x1080, 60 frames per second. All DirectX 9 and newer games are supported. In comparison to software solutions that hammer the CPU, ShadowPlay’s hardware solution has an approximate 5-10% performance impact when using the max-quality 50 mbps recording mode, and by saving to automatically-encoded and compressed H.264 .mp4 files, ShadowPlay avoids the disk-thrashing, humongous, multi-gigabyte files associated with other gameplay recording applications.

 

When streaming with Twitch in a future GeForce Experience release, this minimal performance impact will ensure competitive multiplayer matches aren’t compromised by high CPU usage or hard disk thrashing.

The magnitude of this new feature is beyond amazing IMO.

Very cool, I cannot wait for this

Looks really good.

Hopes this makes capturing FSX easy and without making the fps dropping like a brick. This can make a lot more FS related stuff to show up on Youtube.

Make sure you have the latest drivers: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/331.65/331.65-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql.exe

 

That's 331.65! not 331.58!

 

This will update your Geforce Experience to 1.7. Apparently, the specific update to 1.7 was not meant to be via auto-update.

 

Have fun and share your experiences.

 

PS, thinking about this, it might be possible now to record on the same ssd you're running fsx/other games on.

Not working here with FSX. I think it's because Geforce Experience doesn't recognize FSX as a game. Anyone tried it?

Did you try the scan?

 

Try MANUAL mode.

Yes, scanning it doesn't find FSX and Manual mode does nothing here.

DUDE IT'S WORKING !!!

 

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND SMOOTH ! WOW

 

It turns On and you don't even feel that it did!

 

You have to turn ON GE and then press ALT+F9 to start recording and press it again to stop recording. You will see a green dot appearing on the screen (you can change where it appears on the screen in preferences).

 

Manual mode is probably the best if you're not playing a shooter or something else that is fast-paced.

Cant's get it  to work here. Does GE shows FSX as a game there?

No, it has nothing to do with that! The supported games requirement is only to get optimizations for them! It has nothing to do with recording. You can record off ANY GAME!

You need the GE application working, do NOT close it while running the game.

Btw, it's recording at your native res @ 60 fps... this is really amazing. To get the same thing from FRAPS while maintaining smooth gameplay? no way! 

 

Just to be clear, the beauty of this, is that it runs off the H.264 chip on our cards, meaning it's using dedicated hardware to do this!

No idea why it isn't working here. Will search the web later

I'm sure you will get it working eventually.

I just found out it doesn't work in windowed mode.. did you also try full screen?

No But thanks.