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Nvidia Shadowplay and the instant replay feature always disabling

• Thread starter Deleted member 12323
• Start date Jan 24, 2022

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Deleted member 12323

Banned Oct 27, 2017 3,962 It never used to be like this but for some reason instant replay keeps turning off. I forget to turn it on and lost some cool moments due to that :(

Deleted member 3038

Oct 25, 2017 3,569 I've been having the same issues for the past 2 months. I've seen it disable when watching Content protected videos on Netflix and such (which it always has) But Now It's been disabling randomly and sometimes without the notification...

Alvis

Saw the truth behind the copied door

Member Oct 25, 2017 12,421 EU That happens a lot on my laptop, but never on my desktop PC, which leads me to believe it's a Nvidia Optimus issue OP OP

Deleted member 12323

Banned Oct 27, 2017 3,962

Deleted member 3038 said: I've been having the same issues for the past 2 months. I've seen it disable when watching Content protected videos on Netflix and such (which it always has) But Now It's been disabling randomly and sometimes without the notification... Click to expand... Click to shrink...

weird as I never watch Netflix on my PC...

OneTrickJeffrey

Member Jul 14, 2018 1,808 Philadelphia Is it a problem with numerous games/apps or just one?

CrackaFett

The Fallen Oct 29, 2017 1,221

Deleted member 12323 said: It never used to be like this but for some reason instant replay keeps turning off. I forget to turn it on and lost some cool moments due to that :( Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Check the drive that replays get saved too. If there isn't enough free space it will turn off right after turning it on.

Tora

The Enlightened Wise Ones

Member Jun 17, 2018 9,110 I made a thread on this that got zero replies so I just assumed it was an isolated incident till my friends mentioned similar issues and the Nvidia forums are plagued with this same question. This has to be fairly widespread? It either straight up disables itself and won't let me re-enable, or it'll tank my 99% FPS to 1 which in turn forces me to disable it. The issue has persisted throughout my upgrades from a GTX 1060 - RTX 2080 - RTX 3080. I wish Nvidia would acknowledge the problem because I used to love using shadowplay.

The Turbanator

Banned Oct 25, 2017 6,086 Guilty Gear Strive turns it off every time without fail for me.

Exposure

Member Oct 25, 2017 2,123 Are you listening to Spotify as you play? A friend mentioned going through a similar thing until he happened to turn it off one day and the issue suddenly resolved itself.

sredgrin

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account

Banned Oct 27, 2017 12,276 Do you have 2 displays connected? Gsync or HDR? IIRC I had it due that too and it was one of those, can't remember which.

Deleted member 3038

Oct 25, 2017 3,569

Exposure said: Are you listening to Spotify as you play? A friend mentioned going through a similar thing until he happened to turn it off one day and the issue suddenly resolved itself. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Hmm, it could be that.. I'll have to keep an eye and see if that's the case for me

sredgrin said: Do you have 2 displays connected? Gsync or HDR? IIRC I had it due that too and it was one of those, can't remember which. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Not OP but I disabled Gsync previously but I recently re-enabled it, so It could be that.

Alvis

Saw the truth behind the copied door

Member Oct 25, 2017 12,421 EU

Deleted member 3038 said: I've been having the same issues for the past 2 months. I've seen it disable when watching Content protected videos on Netflix and such (which it always has) But Now It's been disabling randomly and sometimes without the notification... Click to expand... Click to shrink...

List of things that DRM succesfully prevents: ❌ Piracy ✅ A cool instant replay feature working realibly OP OP

Deleted member 12323

Banned Oct 27, 2017 3,962

Deleted member 3038 said: Hmm, it could be that.. I'll have to keep an eye and see if that's the case for me Not OP but I disabled Gsync previously but I recently re-enabled it, so It could be that. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

nah that doesnt work

Dyno

AVALANCHE

Banned Oct 25, 2017 18,515 It became a stuttering mess for me years ago and I've never been able to fix it. I just assumed it's pretty borked. OBS works fine for me so I just swapped to that for recording

Remark

Member Oct 27, 2017 4,561 yeah ive had issues with instant replay randomly stopping i assumed it because of storage but i guess not. OP OP

Deleted member 12323

Banned Oct 27, 2017 3,962

Dyno said: It became a stuttering mess for me years ago and I've never been able to fix it. I just assumed it's pretty borked. OBS works fine for me so I just swapped to that for recording Click to expand... Click to shrink...

does obs have an instant reply feature? i'd rather not have it record the entire time

Dyno

AVALANCHE

Banned Oct 25, 2017 18,515

Deleted member 12323 said: does obs have an instant reply feature? i'd rather not have it record the entire time Click to expand... Click to shrink...

I dont think it does tbh, at least not that I'm aware of. It never really was an issue for me tbh as I was only really recording rocket league replays so I could start it up as and when needed.

dodo

Member Oct 27, 2017 4,685 A lot of websites and features will disable it if you have it set to record desktop apps, I've noticed. Netflix, HBO Max, iTunes I think. You have to turn it back on (helpful to set a hotkey for it) after using anything besides games. I think certain Game Pass/Windows apps disable it by default as well, not sure if that's intended or just a bug.

Allietraa

Prophet of Truth

Member Mar 13, 2019 3,022 This is a "known" issue and I've never seen anyone actually consistently diagnose it. I mean some of the things ITT are surely correct for some people's systems but myself and some people on reddit/nvidia forums have had this happen randomly over time with specific driver/GFE versions on different GPUs, different entire platforms, reinstalling windows, etc with no real rhyme or reason(beyond just X or Y driver being more/less buggy for a given person). A while back I spent weeks crawling all over the internet trying every half-baked "suggestion" I could find and the ONLY thing that works is just trying a different driver version fwiw I did swap to the Nvidia Studio drivers last year and havent had as many issues with it randomly disabling itself but that could easily just be coincidence cuz it's not like i went and A-B tested the same version number of Studio/Game Ready drivers lol

RGB

Member Nov 13, 2017 958

Deleted member 12323 said: does obs have an instant reply feature? i'd rather not have it record the entire time Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Yes, it does. Look for replay buffer. (I use it for this exact reason, as a PC analog to console continuous recording) Spoiler: Image

ChoklitCow

Member Oct 27, 2017 1,279 Indiana I was having this struggle constantly with games. As people mentioned it definitely is impacted at times by things like YouTube, streaming services, etc. But it also seems to just bugs out at certain times and with certain games regardless of having anything else open. I first noticed the problem with Outriders when occasionally while playing it would just turn off and back on periodically for no reason. When it was doing this, it was locking up the game as well. For me, the issues are with the desktop recording feature. With it turned off (it only records games when they are open now) I have no longer had issues. But yeah, I've seen constant comments from folks about this but no response from Nvidia. OP OP

Deleted member 12323

Banned Oct 27, 2017 3,962

RGB said: Yes, it does. Look for replay buffer. (I use it for this exact reason, as a PC analog to console continuous recording) Spoiler: Image Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Ty!

Fiddle

Banned Oct 31, 2017 1,627

Allietraa said: This is a "known" issue and I've never seen anyone actually consistently diagnose it. I mean some of the things ITT are surely correct for some people's systems but myself and some people on reddit/nvidia forums have had this happen randomly over time with specific driver/GFE versions on different GPUs, different entire platforms, reinstalling windows, etc with no real rhyme or reason(beyond just X or Y driver being more/less buggy for a given person). A while back I spent weeks crawling all over the internet trying every half-baked "suggestion" I could find and the ONLY thing that works is just trying a different driver version fwiw I did swap to the Nvidia Studio drivers last year and havent had as many issues with it randomly disabling itself but that could easily just be coincidence cuz it's not like i went and A-B tested the same version number of Studio/Game Ready drivers lol Click to expand... Click to shrink...

yeah this issue just pops up occasionally every few weeks/months across drivers. its impossible to diagnose. the times i notice its shut itself off is when i was wanting to clip something important, and it's just not enabled. disabling desktop recording seems to fix it a lot of the time? but it was shut off the other day so clearly that's not it

Deleted member 20831

Banned Oct 28, 2017 1,951

RGB said: Yes, it does. Look for replay buffer. (I use it for this exact reason, as a PC analog to console continuous recording) Spoiler: Image Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Can you use hevc_nvenc as encoder for replay buffer? Like the following is my usual OBS recording settings. Spoiler: OBS Recording Settings Last edited: Jan 31, 2022

RGB

Member Nov 13, 2017 958

Deleted member 20831 said: Can you use hevc_nvenc as encoder for replay buffer? Click to expand... Click to shrink...

I just assumed it used the same settings as regular recording. Might want to experiment with that, or double check on the OBS wiki/forums. OP OP

Deleted member 12323

Banned Oct 27, 2017 3,962 GEFORCE EXPERIENCE update with the following:

• Fixed an issue where Instant Replay unexpectedly turns off in multi-monitor PC setup.

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