An overlay is a software’s cover interface (or icon) that it places over another application. Overlays are generated by a large number of visual applications and audio messaging services to enhance the user’s experience, particularly in gaming.
When you’re gaming, the NVIDIA GeForce overlay shows as a little toolbar. You may use the overlay to reach the GeForce app’s major features.
However, the overlays can occasionally give individuals a negative experience rather than a positive one. They eat up bandwidth and cause compatibility difficulties with some programs. In this case, you should disable the overlays.
NVIDIA Shadowplay
The GeForce Experience program from Nvidia appears to be a simple tool for optimizing your game collection and getting the newest GeForce software for PCs with graphics cards. But there are a few wonderful capabilities beneath that core function, including a highly praised game recording tool called ShadowPlay.
However, novice users may be perplexed by the fact that the terms ShadowPlay never show within GeForce Experience. Regardless, we’ll continue to use the phrase because Nvidia does.
To use ShadowPlay, go to the top corner of the window and click the triangle-shaped “share” icon. This will bring up what Nvidia refers to as the Share UI. ShadowPlay’s three filming features—Instant Rewind, Recording, and Broadcasting Live—are shown in a widescreen overlay.
Technical Details
Frame Buffer Capture and Frame Readback are two capturing methods available in ShadowPlay. In normal view, NVFBC is used. NVIFR allows users to take a single screen rather than the entire frame buffer, albeit this has a performance cost.
After capturing a picture, ShadowPlay compresses it with a specialized GPU accelerated H.264 encoder that can record up to 4K quality with minimum performance effect on the rest.
The bitrate may be manually adjusted, and the allowable ranges are determined by the user’s pixel density.
Release
Nvidia ShadowPlay sprang from Nvidia Share, a screen recording application designed exclusively for the Geforce Shield.
Nvidia Share was supposed to be launched in the very same season as the Nvidia, but it was postponed. It was moved back to the spring of 2013, but it was again delayed.
On 20th September, an Nvidia community representative announced on the GeForce boards that the item will be delayed owing to an issue with video formats. In October 2013, it was published as a beta version in 331.65.
Features
When Instant Rewind is turned on, it saves the 5 min of the end of your game. Press Alt + F10 to preserve any great maneuvers for posterity, and the previous five minutes will be stored in your Videos subfolder in Windows.
If you don’t want your gaming session to be recorded but yet want to capture an amazing movie or a crazy glitch, Replay Review is a great tool to have. If 5 minutes are not enough, Instant Replay may be enabled to save the 20 mins of end of the gaming at a quality of 1440p and 60 fps. The Record function captures your games manually. To enable it, use Alt + F9. If you want to disable it, press the same combination of keys.
Meanwhile, Broadcast Live allows you to live-stream your gaming life to the rest of the globe. Facebook and Twitch are all supported by ShadowPlay’s broadcast. On Facebook, it can broadcast high definition at 30 fps, 1080p at 60 fps on Twitch, as well as 1440p at 60 fps on YouTube.
Video quality, tape length, bandwidth, and fps may all be adjusted under each recording function. To change the Replay System settings, press the Share button, and then click the Instant Replay icon, then the Settings button that emerges below it. Record work in the same way, albeit Record, will have the same options box as Instant Replay.
Performance
Running ShadowPlay on a low spec gaming system yielded mixed results, according to our typical test. On our moderate test setup, three rounds of a moderate game yielded an average fps rate of 57.67. The average fps decreased to 52.33 when the ShadowPlay Record function was enabled.
When it came to The Division, this decline was even greater. The budget setup averaged 56.3 frames per second without ShadowPlay, however that figure plummeted to 43.9 frames per second after ShadowPlay was enabled. That’s still higher than PlayStation, but it’s a significant improvement.
How To Disable NVIDIA Shadowplay
In the Nvidia program, which is a system that combines game performance parameters, video drivers, and automated updates, you will do the following actions. The NVIDIA ShadowPlay layer is also included.
Are you tired of seeing the message “Press Alt+Z to broadcast your gameplay” each time you start gameplay as an NVIDIA card user? If this is the case, you may disable it from the Share overlay.
Step 1: Use the ALT + Z shortcut keys to access the Share layer, or open GeForce and select the Share button to the left.
Step 2: On the right-hand side, hit the Preferences button (gear).
Step 3: Select Notifications from the drop-down menu.
Step 4: Turn off the Open Share Overlay.
When you start a game now, the alerts will not appear.
The Takeaway
ShadowPlay from Nvidia is a reliable and simple-to-use technology that provides good results for low-end and moderate PCs.The wonderful thing regarding ShadowPlay is that it’s probable that everyone with Nvidia already has it installed. If you’re going to use a budget rig with an equivalent to ShadowPlay, we suggest removing the system to avoid GFE from operating in the back and causing a problem even further.
